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DANE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE
<br /> BEING CHAPTER 10 OF THE ORDINANCES OF DANE COUNTY
<br /> An ordinance, to be known as Chapter 10, Dane County Zoning Ordinance as adopted by the Dane
<br /> County Board of Supervisors on July 20, 1938 as amended and including a comprehensive revision
<br /> adopted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors on May 18, 1950 as amended: for purpose of
<br /> promoting the public health, safety and general welfare by regulating, restricting and deter-
<br /> mining the location of trades and industries, the location, height, bulk, number of stories, and
<br /> size of buildings and other structures, the percentage of lot which may be occupied, the size
<br /> of yards and other open spaces, the density of population, the location of buildings designed
<br /> for specific uses the areas along natural water courses, streams and creeks in which trades and
<br /> industries and the location of buildings for specific uses may be prohibited; establishing set-
<br /> back lines; and establishing districts of such number, shape and area deemed best suited to
<br /> carry out the purposes of this ordinance as it applies to lands outside the limits of incorpo-
<br /> rated cities and villages in Dane County; and providing penalties, pursuant to the authorization
<br /> of Section 59.97, 59.971, 59.99 and 87.30 of the Wisconsin Statutes. The Dane County Board of
<br /> Supervisors do ordain as follows:
<br /> 10.01 DEFINITIONS: For the purposes of this ordinance certain terms used herein are defined
<br /> as follows:
<br /> (1) Accessory Building: A subordinante or supplemental building, the use of which is in-
<br /> cidental to that of the main building on the same lot or the use of the premises on
<br /> which it is located.
<br /> (2) Accessory Use: A use customarily incidental and accessory to the principal use of a
<br /> lot or parcel, or building or structure on the same lot or parcel as the principal
<br /> use.
<br /> (3) Animal Unit: One animal unit shall be defined as being the equivalent of one cow,
<br /> four hogs, ten sheep, ten goats, one hundred poultry, one horse, one pony or one
<br /> mule.
<br /> (4) Apartment House: A building containing accomodations for more than two families
<br /> living independently of each other.
<br /> (5) Apartment House Complex: A group of apartment houses, located on a single parcel of
<br /> land with certain facilities, such as driveways, parking spaces and the like, common
<br /> to the buildings in the complex.
<br /> (6) Boarding House: A building or premises where meals are served by prearrangement for
<br /> definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more person, but not ex-
<br /> ceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to transients, in contradiction to hotels and
<br /> restaurants open to transients.
<br /> (7) Building: Any structure having a roof supported by posts, columns or walls and
<br /> its appendages including balconies, porches and used or intended to be used for
<br /> the shelter or enclosure of person, animals, equipment, machinery or materials.
<br /> Also included for permit and locational purposes are swimming pools both above
<br /> and below ground, towers for microwave antennas, community television antennas
<br /> but not for towers and posts for lines carrying telephone messages or electricity.
<br /> (8) Building Height: The vertical distance, measured from the mean elevation of the finished
<br /> grade along the front of the building to the highest point on the roof for flat roofs;
<br /> to the mean neight level between the eaves and the ridge for gable and hip roofs; to
<br /> the deck line for mansard roofs.
<br /> (9) Building Line: The building line shall be the point at which the building wall
<br /> or any appendage of the building such as steps, chimneys, decks, porches or
<br /> covered patios meet the ground. For earth sheltered homes, the building line is
<br /> a line where the exterior walls of the building if extended vertically would be
<br /> located on the lot.
<br /> (10) Building Setback Line: is a line that is parallel to the front or street lot line
<br /> and is located at a distance from either the centerline of the adjacent highway
<br /> or the front lot line as provided for in ss 10.17 of this ordinance. For triangu-
<br /> lar or gored lots that do not have the required lot width at the required building
<br /> setback line, the building setback line shall be a line that is parallel to the
<br /> front lot line or if the front lot line is a curve it shall be parallel to the chord
<br /> of the arc of the curve of the front lot line and located at the point on the lot
<br /> where the length of the lines meets the lot width requirements of the zoning district
<br /> in which it is located. SEE ALSO LOT WIDTH.
<br /> (11) Campground: A parcel or tract of land, maintained, intended or used for the purpose
<br /> of supplying temporary or overnight living accomodations to the public by providing de-
<br /> signated areas for the placement of trailers tents, buses, automobiles or sleeping bags,
<br /> and may include buildings to provide services to the patrons such as restrooms, bathing,
<br /> laundry and commissary facilities. A primitive campground shall be any area or site
<br /> designated for camping purposes which is accessible only by hiking, boating or canoeing.
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