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;DANE COUNTY .ZONING ORIHNAN,CE <br />BEING CHAPTER 10 OF. THE.- ORDINANCES OF DANE COUNTY <br />An ordinance to alter, supplement a change the boundaries and regulations con - <br />tained.in that certain ordinance adopte d nd d by the Dane County Board of Supervisors on <br />July.2Q, 1938, ,as amended to,and" including October 25, 1949, which said ordinance is <br />entitled °A zoning ordinance enacted..p'ursuant..to the provisions of Section' 59. 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 to That certain ordinance adopted by the County Board of Supervisors of <br />Dane County on July 209 1938, as amended, the title to which is recited in the title <br />to this ordinance, shall hereafter, be, known and numbered as Chapter 109 Dane County <br />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, re- <br />stricting and determining the location of trades and industries, the location, height, <br />bulk, number of stories, and size, of buildings and other structures, the percentage <br />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 area along <br />natural watercourses, streams and creeks in which trades and industries and the.loca- <br />tion of.buildings for spebific uses may be prohibited; establishing setback lines; and <br />establishing districts of such number, shape and area deemed best suited to carry out <br />the purposes of this ordinance as it applies to lands outside the limits or incor- <br />porated cities and villages in Dane County; and.providing penalties', pursuant to the <br />authority of-Sections 59.97 -and 59.99,.Wisconsin Statutes, <br />Section 2, Section I of the ordinance of July 20, 1938, the title to which is re- <br />cited in the title to this ordinance is renumbered to be Section 10001, Dane County <br />Ordinances, and as-so renumbered is amended to read! <br />10.01 DEFINITIONS <br />For the purposes of this.ordinance certain terms used herein are defined as fol- <br />lows: any words not defined herein shall be construed,as defined in the Wisconsin <br />Building Code: <br />(1) Accessory Building: A subordinate or supplemental building, the use of which <br />is incidental to that of the main building on the same lot or the use of the premises <br />on which it is located. <br />(2) Accessory Use: A use customarily incident and accessory to the principal use of <br />a lot or parcel, or building or structure on the same lot or parcel as the pricipal <br />use, <br />(3) Block: That property abutting on.one side of a street between the two nearest <br />intersecting streets, railroad right of way or other natural barriers; provided, how - <br />ever,.that where a street curves so that any two chords thereof form an angle of one <br />hundred twenty (120) degrees or less, measured on the lot side, such curve shall be <br />construed as a connecting street, <br />(4) Boarding Houser A building or premises where meals are served by pre-arrange- <br />ment-for definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more.persons, but <br />not exceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to. transients, in contra-distinction to <br />hotels and restaurants open to transients. <br />(5) Building: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires more or <br />less permanent location on the ground, The building area of a building shall be that <br />area bounded by the - exterior dimensions of the outer wall at the ground line. Tele -- <br />phone, telegraph and power poles and lines shall not be considered buildings for the <br />purposes of this ordinance, <br />1._ <br />