A. Authorization: This title is adopted pursuant to the authorization in sections 62.23 and 62.231 and 87.30 and 144.26, Wisconsin statutes.
B. Findings Of Fact And Purpose: Uncontrolled use of the shoreland-wetlands 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:
1. Promote the public health, safety, convenience and general welfare;
2. Maintain the storm and flood water storage capacity of wetlands;
3. Prevent and control water pollution by preserving wetlands which filter or store sediments, nutrients, heavy metals or organic compounds that would otherwise drain into navigable waters;
4. Protect fish, their spawning grounds, other aquatic life and wildlife by preserving wetlands and other aquatic habitat;
5. Prohibit certain uses detrimental to the shoreland-wetland area; and
6. 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. (1975 Code Ch. 23 § I)