Uncontrolled use of shorelands and pollution of the navigable waters of the municipality would adversely affect the public health, safety, convenience, and general welfare and impair the tax base. The Legislature of Wisconsin has delegated responsibility to all municipalities to:
(A) Promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare;
(B) Limit certain land use activities detrimental to shorelands;
(C) Preserve shore cover and natural beauty by controlling the location of structures in shoreland areas and restricting the removal of natural shoreland vegetation;
(D) Protect fish, their spawning grounds, other aquatic life and wildlife by preserving wetlands and other aquatic habitat;
(E) Prohibit certain uses detrimental to the shoreland-wetland area; and
(F) Preserve shore cover and natural beauty by restricting the removal of natural shoreland cover and controlling shoreland wetland excavation, filling and other earth-moving activities.
(Ord. 1001, passed 7-21-15)