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DANE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE Including all amendments adopted by the County Board to and including October .31, 1950 An ordinance to alter, supplement and change the boundaries and regulations contained in that certain ordinance adopted by the Dane County Board of Supervisors on July 20, 1938, as amended to and including Octo- ber 25, 1949, which said ordinance is entitled "A zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to the provisions of Sections 59.97 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, Dane Count 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, restricting and determining the locations of trades and industries, the location, height, bulk, numbef`'o£ stories, and size of buildings and other structures; the percentage of lot which may be occupied; the size of yards and other open spaces; the density and distribution of population; the location of buildings designed for specific uses; the areas along natural water courses, channels, streams and creeks in which trades and industries and the location of buildings for specific uses may be prohibited; establish- ing 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 incorporated cities and villages in Dane Coun- ty; and providing penalties, pursuant to the authority of Section 59.97 and 59.99, Wisconsin Statutes. . Section 2. Section 1 of the ordinance of July 20, 1938, the title to which is recited in the title to this ordinance is renumbered to be Section 10.01, Dane County Ordinances, and as so renumbered is amended to read: 10.01 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this ordinance certain terms used herein are defined 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 premises 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, however, that where a street curves so that any two chords thereof form an angle of one hundred twenty (120) degrees or less, measured on the lot side, such curve shall be considered as an intersecting street. (4) Boarding House: A building or premises where meals are served by pre- arrangement for definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more persons, not not exceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to tran- sients, in contra - distinction to hotels and restaurants open to transients. (5) Building: Anything constructed or erected, the use of which re- quires more or less permanent location on the ground. The building area —2—