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DANE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE
<br /> BEING CHAPTER 10 OF THE ORDINANCES OF DANE COUNTY
<br /> An ordinance to alter, supplement and'change the boundaries and regulations contained in that certain ordinance
<br /> adopted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors on July 20, 1938, as amended to and including October 25, 1949
<br /> which said ordinance is entitled "A zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to the provisions of 'Sections 59.97 and
<br /> 59.99 of the statutes and providing penalties for the violation of its provisions".
<br /> The Dane County Board of Supervisors does ordain as follows:
<br /> Section 1. That certain ordinance adopted by the County Board of Supervisors of Dane County of July 20, 1938,
<br /> as amended, the title to which is recited in the title to this ordinance, shall hereafter be known and numbered
<br /> as Chapter 10, Dane County Ordinances, and as so entitled and numbered said title is amended to read as follows:
<br /> An ordinance, to be known as Chapter 10, Dane County Ordinances, regulating, restricting and determining the loca-
<br /> tion of trades and industries, the location, height, bulk, number of stories, and size of buildings and other
<br /> structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the size of yards and other open spaces, the density of
<br /> population, the location of buildings designed for specific uses; the areas along natural water courses, streams
<br /> and creeks in which trades and industries and the location of buildings for specific uses may be prohibited;
<br /> establishing setback lines; and establishing districts of such number, shape and area deemed best suited to carry
<br /> out the purposes of this ordinance as it applies to lands outside the limits of incorporated cities and villages
<br /> in Dane County; and providing penalties, pursuant to the authorization of Section 59.97 and 59.99, Wisconsin
<br /> Statutes.
<br /> Section 2. Section 1 of the ordinance of July 20, 1938, the title to which is recited in the title to this ordi-
<br /> nance, is renumbered to be Section 10.01, Dane County Ordinances, as so renumbered is amended to read.
<br /> 110.01 DEFINITIONS:1 For the purposes of this ordinance certain terms used herein are defined as follows: any
<br /> words not defined herein shall be construed as defined in the Wisconsin Building Code:
<br /> (1) Accessory Building: A subordinate or supplemental building, the use of which is incidental to that of the
<br /> main building on the same lot or the use of the premises on which it is located.
<br /> (2) Accessory Use: A use customarily incident and accessory to the principal use of a lot or parcel, or build-
<br /> ing or structure on the same lot or parcel as the principal use.
<br /> (3) Apartment House: A building containing accomodations for more than two families living independently of
<br /> each other.
<br /> (4) Apartment House Complex: A group of apartment houses, located on a single parcel of land with certain facil-
<br /> ities, such as driveways, parking spaces and the like, common to the buildings in the complex. Apartment house
<br /> complexes comprised of one hundred or more units may include a restaurant, grocery store, drug store, personal
<br /> service shop and the like for the convenience of residents in the complex.
<br /> (5) Bearings: For the purpose of property descriptions in this ordinance, when the bearings :North, South, East
<br /> and West are used, they shall be construed as relative or approximate, and construed as following section lines,
<br /> quarter section lines, quarter quarter section lines, or lines parallel to or at right angles to such lines, or
<br /> following mapped property lines or highway lines running approximately in the direction indicated. Where exact
<br /> bearings are critical or significant to the description the exact bearing will be used.
<br /> (6) Block: That property abutting on one side of a street between the nearest intersecting street, railroad
<br /> right-of-way or other natural barriers; providing, however, that where a street curves so that any two chords
<br /> thereof form an angle of one hundred twenty (120) degrees or less, measured on the lot side, such curve shall
<br /> be construed as a connecting street.
<br /> (7) Boarding House: A building or premises where meals are served by prearrangement for definite periods of
<br /> time for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to tran-
<br /> sients, in contradiction to hotels and restaurants open to transients.
<br /> (8) Building: Anything erected or constructed, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on
<br /> the ground. The building area of a building shall be that area bounded by the exterior dimensions of the outer
<br /> walls at the ground line.
<br /> (9) Building Height: The vertical distance, measured from the mean elevation of the finished grade along the
<br /> front of the building to the highest point on the roof for flat roofs; to the mean height level between the
<br /> eaves and the ridge for gable and hip roofs; to the deck line for mansard roofs.
<br /> (10) Building Site Area: The ground area of a building or buildings, together with all open spaces required
<br /> by this ordinance.
<br /> (11) Camp Site or Camping Grounds: An area or premises providing facilities for overnight or short term campers
<br /> in tents, camping trailers or trailers, together with necessary accessory buildings and service facilities which
<br /> may be necessary for water supply and waste disposal, and such other facilities as may be required by the state
<br /> - board of health, together with a residence or living quarters for the owner or caretaker on the premises. Such
<br /> camping grounds must be supervised during the season they are open to the public.
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