For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall be used, unless a different definition is specifically provided for a section. Words used in the present tense include the future; the singular number includes the plural number; and the plural number includes the singular number. The word
SHALL is mandatory and not permissive.
ABUTTING. Have a common property line or district line.
ACCESSORY USE or STRUCTURE. A use or detached structure subordinate to the principal use of a structure, parcel of land, or water, and located on the same lot or parcel serving a purpose incidental to the principal use or the principal structure.
ACRE, NET. The actual land devoted to the land use, excluding public streets, public lands, or unusable lands, and school sites contained within 43,560 square feet.
ADULT BOOK STORE. An establishment having as a predominant portion of its stock in trade, books, magazines, and other periodicals, or video cassettes, which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES (as defined herein) or SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS (as defined herein).
ADULT ENTERTAINMENT ESTABLISHMENT. An establishment having as a predominant portion of its business live acts, demonstrations, dances, or exhibitions which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES (as defined herein) or SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS (as defined herein).
ADULT MOTION PICTURE THEATER. An enclosed building which is significantly or substantially used for presenting motion picture films, video cassettes, cable television, or any other such visual media, which are distinguished or characterized by their emphasis on matter depicting, describing, or relating to SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES (as defined herein) or SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS (as defined herein).
AGRICULTURAL USE. Any agricultural activity or use conducted for the purpose of producing an income or livelihood such as: crop or forage production, keeping livestock, beekeeping, nursery, sod, or Christmas tree production, floriculture, aquaculture, fur farming, forest management, enrolling in a federal agricultural commodity payment program or a federal or state agricultural land conservation payment program, or any other activity or use permitted under Wisconsin State Legislature Chapter 91, subchapter 1, § 91.01(2), “Farmland Preservation,” or identified by rule of the Wisconsin DATCP.
ALLEY. A public way not more than 21 feet wide which affords only a secondary means of access to abutting property.
APARTMENT. A room or suite of rooms in a multi-family structure which is arranged, designed, used or intended to be used as a single housekeeping unit. Complete kitchen facilities, permanently installed, must always be included for each apartment.
ARTERIAL STREET. A public street or highway used or intended to be used primarily for large volume or heavy through traffic. ARTERIAL STREETS shall include freeways and expressways as well as arterial streets, highways, and parkways.
A ZONES. Areas of potential flooding shown on the village’s “Flood Insurance Rate Map” which would be inundated by the regional flood as defined herein. These zones may be numbered as AO, A1 to A99, or be unnumbered A ZONES. The A ZONES may or may not be reflective of flood profiles, depending on the availability of data for a given area.
BASEMENT. The portion of any structure located partly below the average adjoining lot grade which is not designed or used primarily for year-around living accommodations. Space partly below grade which is designed and finished as habitable space is not defined as BASEMENT space.
BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT. Any place of lodging that provides four or fewer rooms for rent for more than ten nights in a 12-month period, is the owner’s personal residence, is occupied by the owner at the time of rental, and in which the only meal served to guests is breakfast.
BLOCK. A tract of land bounded by streets or by a combination of streets and public parks or other recognized lines of demarcation.
BOARDING HOUSE. A building other than a hotel or restaurant where meals or lodging are regularly furnished by prearrangement for compensation for three or more persons not members of a family, but not exceeding 12 persons and not open to transient customers.
BAILABLE LOT AREA. The portion of a lot remaining after required yards have been provided.
BUILDING. Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls used or intended to be used for the shelter or enclosure of persons, animals, equipment, machinery, or materials. When a BUILDING is divided into separate parts by unpierced walls extending from the ground up, each part shall be deemed a separate building.
BUILDING, DETACHED. A building surrounded by open space on the same lot.
BUILDING, HEIGHTS OF. The vertical distance from the average curb level in front of the lot or the finished grade at the building line, whichever is higher, to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a gambrel, hip, or pitch roof.
BUILDING, PRINCIPAL. A building in which the principal use of the lot on which it is located is conducted.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE. A line parallel to the lot line at a distance parallel to it, regulated by the yard requirements set up in this code.
BUSINESS. An occupation, employment, or enterprise which occupies time, labor, and materials, or wherein merchandise is exhibited or sold, or where services are offered.
CAMPING GROUND. A parcel of land used or intended to be used, let, or rented, or occupancy by campers or for occupancy by or of trailers, tents, or movable or temporary dwellings, rooms, or sleeping quarters of any kind.
CAMPING UNIT. Any portable device, no more than 400 square feet in area, used as a temporary shelter including, but not limited to, a camping trailer, motor home, bus, van, pick-up truck, or tent, that is fully licensed if required, and ready for highway use.
CHANNEL. The floodlands normally occupied by a stream of water under average annual high-water flow conditions while confined within generally well-established banks.
COMMUNITY LIVING ARRANGEMENT. The following facilities licensed or operated or permitted under the authority of the state statutes child welfare agencies under Wis. Stats. § 48.60, group foster homes for children under Wis. Stats. § 48.02(7m) and community-based residential facilities under Wis. Stats. § 50.01, but does not include daycare centers, nursing homes, general hospitals, special hospitals, prisons, and jails. The establishment of a community living arrangement shall be in conformance with applicable sections of the state statutes, including Wis. Stats. §§ 46.03(22), 69.97(15), 62.23(7)(i), and 62.23(7a), and amendments thereto, and also the Wisconsin Administrative Code.
CONDITIONAL USES. Uses of a special nature as to make impractical their predetermination as a principal use in a district.
CONSERVATION STANDARDS. Guidelines and specifications for soil and water conservation practices and management enumerated in the technical guide, prepared by the USDA Soil Conservation Service for Barron and Polk Counties, adopted by the County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors, and containing suitable alternatives for the use and treatment of land based upon its capabilities from which the landowner selects that alternative which best meets his or her needs in developing his or her soil and water conservation.
CONTROLLED ACCESS ARTERIAL STREET. The condition in which the right of owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons to access, light, air, or view in connection with an arterial street is fully or partially controlled by public authority.
CORNER LOT. On corner lots, the setback shall be measured from the street right-of-way line on which the lot fronts. The setback from the side street shall be equal to 75% of the setback required on residences fronting on the side street but the side yard setback shall in no case restrict the buildable width to less than 30 feet. Said CORNER LOTS shall be consisting of a parcel of property abutting on two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the interior angle of such intersection is less than 135 degrees.
DEVELOPMENT. Any human-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, including, but not limited to, construction of or additions or substantial improvements to buildings, other structures, or accessory uses, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation, or drilling operations, or disposition of materials.
DISTRICT, BASIC. A part or parts of the village for which the regulations of this chapter governing the use and location of land and building are uniform.
DISTRICT, OVERLAY. Overlay districts, also referred to herein as regulatory areas, provide for the possibility of superimposing certain additional requirements upon a basic zoning district without disturbing the requirements of the basic district. In the instance of conflicting requirements, the more strict of the conflicting requirements shall apply.
DWELLING. A building designed or used exclusively as a residence or sleeping place, but does not include boarding or lodging houses, motels, hotels, tents, cabins, or mobile homes.
DWELLING, EFFICIENCY. A dwelling unit consisting of one principal room with no separate sleeping rooms.
DWELLING, MULTIPLE-FAMILY. A residential building designed for or occupied by three or more families, with the number of families in residence not to exceed the number of dwelling units provided.
DWELLING, SINGLE-FAMILY. A detached building designed for or occupied by one family.
DWELLING, TWO-FAMILY. A detached building containing two separate dwelling (or living) units, designed for occupancy by not more than two families.
DWELLING UNIT. A group of rooms constituting all or part of a dwelling, which are arranged, designed, used, or intended for use exclusively as living quarters for one family.
EQUAL DEGREE OF HYDRAULIC ENCROACHMENT. The effect of any encroachment into the floodway is to be computed by assuming an equal degree of hydraulic encroachment on the opposite side of a river or stream for a significant hydraulic reach, in order to compute the effect of the encroachment upon hydraulic conveyance. This computation assures that the property owners up, down, or across the river or stream will have the same rights of hydraulic encroachment.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES. Services provided by public and private utilities, necessary for the exercise of the principal use or service of the principal structure. These services include underground, surface or overhead gas, electrical, steam, water, sanitary sewerage, stormwater drainage, and communication systems and accessories thereto, such as poles, towers, wires, mains, drains, vaults, culverts, laterals, sewers, pipes, catch basins, water storage tanks, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, pumps, lift stations, and hydrants, but not including buildings.
FAMILY. One or more persons immediately related by blood, marriage, or adoption and living as a single housekeeping unit in one dwelling unit shall constitute a FAMILY. A FAMILY may include in addition thereto two but not more than two persons not related by blood, marriage, or adoption. A person shall be considered to be related for the purpose of this section if he or she is dwelling for the purpose of adoption or for a foster care program. Exceptions: Nothing in this chapter shall prohibit, under the definition of FAMILY, priests, lay brothers, nurses, or such other collective body of persons living either in one house under the same management and care, subsisting in common, and directing their attention to a common object or the promotion of their mutual interest and social happiness as set forth by the Wisconsin Supreme Court in Missionaries of Our Lady of LaSailette vs. Village of Whitefish Board of Zoning Appeals, 267 Wis. 609, which is hereby incorporated by reference.
FARMSTEAD. A single-family residential structure located on a parcel of land, which primary land use is associated with agriculture.
FLOOD. A temporary rise in streamflow or stage in lake level that results in water overtopping the banks and inundating the areas adjacent to the steam channel or lake bed.
FLOOD INSURANCE STUDY. An examination, evaluation and determination of flood hazards and, if appropriate, corresponding water surface elevations; or an examination, evaluation, and determination of mudslide (for example, mud flow) and/or floor-related erosion hazards. Such studies shall result in the publication of a Flood Insurance Rate Map showing the intensity of flood hazards in either numbered or unnumbered A Zones.
FLOOD PROFILE. A graph showing the relationship of the floodwater surface elevation of a flood event of a specified recurrence interval to the stream bed and other significant natural and human-made features along a stream.
FLOOD PROTECTION ELEVATION. A point two feet above the water surface elevation of the 100-year recurrence interval flood. This safety factor, also called “freeboard,” is intended to compensate for the many unknown factors that contribute to flood heights greater than those computed. Such unknown factors may include ice jams, debris accumulation, wave action, and obstructions of bridge openings.
FLOOD STAGE. The elevation of the floodwater surface above an officially established datum plane, which is mean sea level, 1929 adjustment, on the supplementary floodland zoning map.
FLOODLANDS. For the purpose of this code, the floodlands are all lands contained in the “regional flood” or 100-year recurrence interval flood. For the purpose of zoning regulation, the FLOODLANDS are divided into the floodway district, the floodplain conservancy district, and the floodplain fringe overlay district.
FLOODPLAIN FRINGE. Those floodlands, outside the floodway, subject to inundation by the 100-year recurrence interval flood. For the purpose of this code, the FLOODPLAIN FRINGE includes the floodplain conservancy district and the floodplain fringe overlay district.
FLOODPROOFING. Measures designed to prevent and reduce flood damage for those uses which cannot be removed from, or which, of necessity, must be erected in the floodplain, ranging from structural modifications through installation of special equipment or materials, to operation and management safeguards, such as the following: reinforcing the basement walls; underpinning of floors; permanent sealing of all exterior openings; use of masonry construction; erection of permanent watertight bulkheads, shutters and doors; treatment of exposed timbers; elevation of flood-vulnerable utilities; use of waterproof cement; adequate fuse protection; sealing of basement walls; installation of sump pumps; placement of automatic swing check valves; installation of seal-tight windows and doors; installation of wire reinforced glass; location and elevation of valuable items; waterproofing, disconnecting, elevation or removal of all electric equipment; avoidance of the use of flood-vulnerable areas; temporary removal of waterproofing of merchandise; operation of emergency pump equipment; closing of backwater sewer valve; placement of plugs and food drain pipes; placement of movable watertight bulkheads; erection of sand bag levees; and the shoring of weak walls or structures. FLOODPROOFING of structures shall be extended at least to a point two feet above the elevation of the regional flood. Any structure that is located entirely or partially below the flood protection elevation shall be anchored to protect it from larger floods.
FLOODWAY. A designated portion of the 100-year flood area that will safely convey the regulatory flood discharge with small, acceptable upstream and downstream stage increases, limited in the state to 0.1 foot unless special legal measures are provided. The FLOODWAY, which includes the channel, is that portion of the floodplain not suited for human habitation. All fill, structures and other development that would impair floodwater conveyance by adversely increasing flood stages or velocities or would itself be subject to flood damage should be prohibited in the FLOODWAY.
FLOOR AREA, BUSINESS AND MANUFACTURING BUILDINGS. For the purpose of determining off-street parking and off-street loading requirements, the sum of the gross horizontal areas of the floors of the building, or portion thereof, devoted to a use requiring off-street parking or loading. This area shall include accessory storage areas located within selling or working space occupied by counters, racks, or closets, and any basement floor area devoted to retailing activities, to the production or processing of goods, or to business or professional offices. However, FLOOR AREA, for the purposes of determining off-street parking spaces, shall not include floor area devoted primarily to storage purposes except as otherwise noted herein.
FOSTER FAMILY HOME. The primary domicile of a foster parent which is four or fewer foster children and which is licensed under Wis. Stats. § 48.62 and amendments thereto.
FRONTAGE. All the property butting on one side of a street between two intersecting streets or all of the property abutting on one side of a street between an intersecting street and the dead end of a street.
GARAGE, PRIVATE. A detached accessory building or portion of the principal building designed, arranged, used, or intended to be used for storage of automobiles of the occupant of the premises.
GARAGE, PUBLIC. Any building or portion thereof, not accessory to a residential building or structure, used for equipping, servicing, repairing, leasing, or public parking of motor vehicles.
GROUP FOSTER HOME. Any facility operated by a person required to be licensed by Wis. Stats. § 48.62 for the care and maintenance of five to eight foster children.
HOME OCCUPATION. An occupation, profession, or trade conducted on a regular basis within or from an approved residential dwelling and/or accessory buildings (if permitted) by one or more occupants residing in the dwelling that is clearly incidental and subordinate to the primary or principal use of the dwelling and property.
HOTEL. A building in which lodging, with or without meals, is offered to transient guests for compensation and in which there are more than five sleeping rooms with no cooking facilities in any individual room or apartment.
LOADING AREA. A completely off-street space or berth on the same lot for the loading or unloading of freight earners, having adequate ingress and egress to a public street or alley.
LODGING HOUSE. A building where lodging only is provided for compensation for not more than three persons not members of the family.
LOT. A parcel of land having frontage on a public street, or other officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal structure or use, and sufficient in size to meet the lot width, lot frontage, lot area, and other open space provisions of this code as pertaining to the district wherein located.
LOT, CORNER. A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the comer of such intersection shall have an angle of 135 degrees or less, measured on the lot side.
LOT COVERAGE (EXCEPT RESIDENTIAL). The area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory buildings including any driveways, parking areas, loading areas, storage areas, and walkways.
LOT COVERAGE (RESIDENTIAL). The area of a lot occupied by the principal building or buildings and accessory building.
LOT, INTERIOR. A lot situated on a single street which is bounded by adjacent lots along each of its other lines, and is not a corner lot.
LOT LINE. A property boundary line of any lot held in single or separate ownership, except that where any portion of the lot extends into the abutting street or alley, the lot line shall be deemed to be the abutting street or alley right-of-way line.
LOT LINES AND AREA. The peripheral boundaries of a parcel of land and the total area lying within such boundaries.
LOT, SUBSTANDARD. A parcel of land held in separate ownership having frontage on a public street, or other approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal building or structure, together with accessory buildings and uses, having insufficient size to meet the lot width, lot area, yard, off-street parking areas, or other open space provisions of this code as pertaining to the district wherein located.
LOT, THROUGH. A lot which has a pair of opposite lot lines along two substantially parallel streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
LOT WIDTH. The horizontal distance between the side lot lines measured at the building setback line.
MINOR STRUCTURES. Any small, movable accessory erection or construction such as birdhouses, tool houses, pet houses, play equipment, arbors, and walls and fences under four feet in height.
MOBILE HOME. A manufactured home that is HUD certified and labeled under the National Mobile Home Construction and Safety Standards Act of 1974, being 42 U.S.C. §§ 5401 et seq. A MOBILE HOME is a transportable structure, being eight feet or more in width (not including the overhang of the roof), built on a chassis and designed to be used as a dwelling with or without permanent foundation when connected to the required utilities.
MOBILE HOME LOT. A parcel of land for the placement of a single mobile home and the exclusive use of its occupants.
MOBILE HOME PARK. A parcel of land which has been developed for the placement of mobile homes and is owned by an individual, a firm, trust, partnership, public or private association, or corporation. Individual lots within a MOBILE HOME PARK are rented to individual mobile home users.
MOBILE HOME SUBDIVISION. A land subdivision, as defined by Wis. Stats. Chapter 236 and any village land division ordinance, with lots intended for the placement of individual mobile home units. Individual homesites are in separate ownership as opposed to the rental arrangements in mobile home parks.
MODULAR UNIT. A modular unit is a factor fabricated transportable building unit designed to be used by itself or to be incorporated with similar units at a building site into a modular structure to be used for residential, commercial, educational, or industrial purposes.
NON-CONFORMING USES. Any structure, use of land, use of land and structure in combination or characteristic of use (such as yard requirement or lot size) which was existing at the time of the effective date of this code or amendments thereto, and which is not in conformance with this code. Any such structure conforming in respect to use but not in respect to frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking, loading or distance requirements shall not be considered a NON-CONFORMING USE, but shall be considered non-conforming with respect to those characteristics.
OFFICIAL LETTER OF MAP AMENDMENT. Official notification from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) that a flood hazard boundary map or flood insurance rate map has been amended.
PARKING LOT. A structure or premises containing five or more parking spaces open to the public.
PARKING SPACE. A graded and surfaced area of not less than 180 square feet in area, either enclosed or open, for the parking of a motor vehicle, having adequate ingress and egress to a public street or alley.
PARTIES IN INTEREST. Includes all abutting property owners, all property owners within 100 feet, and all property owners of opposite frontages.
PRINCIPAL USE. The primary purposes for which a lot or parcel is used.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE. The office of a doctor, practitioner, dentist, minister, architect, landscape architect, engineer, lawyer, author, musician, or other recognized trade. When established in a residential district, a PROFESSIONAL OFFICE shall be incidental to the residential occupation, not more than 25% of the floor area of one story of a dwelling unit shall be occupied by such office and only one unlighted nameplate, not exceeding one square foot in area, containing the name and profession of the occupant of the premises shall be exhibited.
PUBLIC AIRPORT. Any airport which complies with the definition contained in Wis. Stats. § 114.105 or any airport which serves or offers to serve common carriers engaged in air transport.
REAR YARD. A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the rear lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. This yard shall be opposite the street yard or one of the street yards on a corner lot.
REGIONAL FLOOD. This regional flood is a flood determined to be representative of large floods known to have generally occurred in the state and which may be expected to occur on a particular stream because of like physical characteristics. The flood frequency of the REGIONAL FLOOD is once in every 100 years; this means that in any given year, there is a 1% chance that the REGIONAL FLOOD may occur or be exceeded. During a typical 30 year mortgage period, the regional flood has a 26% chance of occurrence.
RETAIL. The sale of goods or merchandise in small quantities to the consumer.
SETBACK. The minimum horizontal distance between the front lot line and the nearest point of the foundation of that portion of the building to be enclosed. The overhang cornices shall not exceed 24 inches. Any overhang of the cornice in excess of 24 inches shall be compensated by increasing the SETBACK by an amount equal to the excess of cornice over 24 inches. Uncovered steps shall not be included in measuring the SETBACK.
SIDE YARD. A yard extending from the street yard to the rear yard of the lot, the width of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the side lot line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure.
SIGNS. Any medium, including its structure, words, letters, figures, numerals, phrases, sentences, emblems, devices, designs, trade names, or trademarks by which anything is made known and which are used to advertise or promote an individual, firm, association, corporation, profession, business, commodity or product, and which is visible from any public street or highway.
SPECIFIED ANATOMICAL AREAS. Less than completely and opaquely covered human genitals, pubic region, buttock, perineum, anal region, or female breast at or below the areola, or human male genitals in a discernable turgid state even if completely and opaquely covered.
SPECIFIED SEXUAL ACTIVITIES.
(1) Human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal;
(2) Acts of human masturbation, sexual intercourse, or sodomy; or
(3) Fondling or other erotic touching of human genitals, pubic region, buttock, perineum, anal region, or the female breast.
STORY.
(1) The portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it.
(2) Any portion of a
STORY exceeding 14 feet in height shall be considered as an additional STORY for each 14 feet or fraction thereof.
(3) A basement having one-half or more of its height above grade shall be deemed a
STORY for purposes of height regulation.
STORY, HALF. The portion of a building under a gable, hip, or mansard roof, the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior walls, are not more than four and one-half feet above the finished floor of such story. In the case of one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multi-family dwellings less than three stories in height, a one-half story in a sloping roof shall not be counted as a story for the purposes of this code.
STREET. Property other than an alley or private thoroughfare or travelway which is subject to public easement or right-of-way for use as a thoroughfare, and which is 21 feet or more in width.
STREET YARD. A yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depot of which shall be the minimum horizontal distance between the existing street or highway right-of-way line and a line parallel thereto through the nearest point of the principal structure. Corner lots shall have two STREET YARDS.
STRUCTURE. Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a permanent location on the ground or attached to something having a permanent location on the ground.
STRUCTURAL ALTERATIONS. Any change in the supporting members of a structure, such as foundations, bearing walls, columns, beams, or girders.
SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE. Facts and information, other than merely personal preferences or speculation, directly pertaining to the requirements and conditions an applicant must meet to obtain a conditional use and that reasonable persons would accept in support of a conclusion.
TEMPORARY STRUCTURE. A movable structure not designed for human occupancy nor for the protection of goods or chattels and not forming an enclosure, such as billboards.
TINY HOUSE. A single-family dwelling that is 400 square feet or less in floor area, excluding lofts.
TINY HOUSE ON WHEELS. A tiny housing that is mounted on a wheeled trailer chassis.
USE. The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereof is designed, arranged, or intended, or for which it is occupied or maintained.
USE, ACCESSORY. A subordinate building or use which is located on the same lot on which the principal building or use is situated, and which is reasonably necessary and incidental to the conduct of the primary use of such building or main use, when permitted by district regulations.
USE, PRINCIPAL. The main use of land or building as distinguished from subordinate or accessory use.
UTILITIES. Public and private facilities, such as water wells, water and sewage pumping stations, water storage tanks, electrical power substations, static transformer stations, telephone and telegraph exchanges, microwave radio relays, and gas regulation stations, inclusive of associated transmission facilities, but not including sewage disposal plants, municipal incinerators, warehouses, shops, storage yards, and power plants.
VISION CLEARANCE. An unoccupied triangular space at the street corner of a corner lot which is bounded by the street lines and a setback line connecting points specified by measurement from the corner on each street line.
YARD. An open space on the same lot with a structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward except the vegetation. The street and rear yards extend the full width of the lot.
ZERO LOT LINE. The concept whereby two respective dwelling units within a building shall be on separate and abutting lots and shall meet on the common property line between them, thereby having zero space between said units.
ZONING PERMIT. A permit issued by the Zoning Administrator, Clerk, and highest elected official, as appropriate, to certify that the use of lands, structures, air, and waters subject to this chapter are or shall be used in accordance with the provisions of said chapter.
(Ord. passed 1-18-2021)