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• • • TANTE COUNTY :ZONING OR.D:I.NANC:E BEING CHAPTER, 10 OF THE ORDINANCES OF DANE COUNTY • An ordinance to alter,. supplement and change the boundaries and regulations con- tained in that certain ordinance•adopted by the Dane County 3oard of Supervisors on July 20, 1938, as amended to and including October 25, 1949, which said ordinance is entitled `A zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to the provisions of Sections f9.97 and 59.99 of the Statutes and providing penalties for the violation of its provisions' . The Dane County Board of'Supervisors does ordain as follows: Section 1. -That certain ordinance adopted by the County Board of Supervisors of Dane County on July 20, 1938, as amended, the title'to which is •recited in the title to this ordinance, shall hereafter be known and numbered as Chapter 10, Lane County Ordinances, and as so entitled and numbered, said title is amended to read as follows: An ordinance, to be known as Chapter 10, Dane County Ordinances, regulating, re- stricting and determining. the location of trades and industries, the location, height, bulk, number of stories, .and size of building and other structures; the percentage - of lot which.may be occupied; the size of yards and other open spaces; the density of population; the location of buildings designed for specific uses; the area along natural water courses, streams and creeks in which trades and industries and the location of buildings for specific•uses may be prohibited; establishing setback lines: and establishing districts of such number, shape and area deemed best suited to carry out the purposes of this ordinance as it applies to lands outside the limits of in- corporated cities-and villages in Dane County; and providing penalties, pursuant to the authority of Sections 59. 97 and '59.99, Wisconsin Statutes. - Section 2. Section 1 of the ordinance of July 20, 1938, •the title to which is re- cited in the title to this ordinance is renumbered to•be Section 10.01, Dane County Ordinances, and as -so renumbered is amended to read: 10001 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose• of this ordinance certain te°ins used herein are defines as follows: any words not defined herein shall be construed as defined in the Wisconsin Building Code: (1) Accessory Building: A subordinate or supplemental building, the use.of which 'is incidental to that of the main building on the same lot or to the use of the prem- ises on which it is located. (2) Accessory Use: A use customarily incident and accessory to the principal use of a lot or parcel, or building or structure located on the same lot or parcel as the • principal use. (3)- Block: That property abutting on one side ,of a street between the two nearest intersecting streets, railroad right of way, or other natural barriers; provided, how- ever, that where a street curves so that any two 'chords thereof form an angle of one hundred twenty 0.20)-degree or less, measured on the lot side, such curve shall be construed as an intersecting street. (4) Boarding House A building or premies where meals are served by pre-arrange- ment for definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to transients, incontra-distinction to hotels-and restaurants open to transients, (5) Building; Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground. The building area of a building shall be that area bounded by the exterior dimensions of the outer wall at the ground line. Tele- phone, telegraph and power poles and lines shall not be considered buildings for the purpose of this ordinance. • -1- iT