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DOUGLAS COUNTY Planning, Zoning & Land Information Offices 1313 Belknap Street, Room 206 Superior, WI 54880 Zone District A-1 Ordinance & Setbacks Rev. 06-2018 Phone: [PHONE REDACTED] FAX: [PHONE REDACTED] Web: www.douglascountywi.org 3.6A-1AGRICULTURALDISTRICT This district is intended to provide for the continuation of general farming and related activities in those areas best suited for such development; and to prevent the untimely and uneconomical scattering of residential, commercial, or industrial development into such areas. 1. Permitted Uses: One-family and two-family year-round and seasonal dwellings. One-family and two-family farm residences and a single mobile home, but only when occupied by owners and/or persons engaged in farming activities on the premises. All agricultural land uses, buildings, and activities, except farms for disposal of garbage or offal. Roadside stands for the sale of products grown on the premises, if sufficient off-street parking space for customers is provided. Agricultural processing industries and warehouses, except slaughterhouses and rendering and fertilizer plants. Vacation farms and other farm-oriented recreational uses such as riding stables, winter sports activities, and game farms. Cemeteries and mausoleums. Essential services and utilities intended to serve a permitted principal use on the premises. Woodlots and tree farms. Customary accessory uses provided such uses are clearly incidental to a principal permitted use. Signs subject to the provisions of Section V 2. Uses Authorized by Conditional Permit Mobile home parks and trailer parks subject to the provisions of Section 6.0. A single mobile home provided the lot area and setback requirements of this district are met and the owner provides an accessory building or garage for storage purposes. Dumps for the disposal of garbage, sewage, rubbish, or offal, subject to the applicable provisions of Wisconsin Administrative Code and the provisions of Section 6.0. Slaughterhouses, rendering and fertilizer plants. Public and semipublic uses including but not limited to the following: public and private schools, churches, public parks and recreation areas, hospitals, rest homes and homes for the aged, fire and police stations, historic sites, sewage disposal plants, garbage incinerators and maintenance, repair or storage buildings. Telephone, telegraph and power transmission towers, poles and lines, including transformers, substations, relay and repeater stations, equipment housing and other necessary appurtenant equipment and structures. Quarrying and mining and processing of products from these activities, subject to the provisions of Section 6.0. Airports, subject to the provisions of Section 4.3. Gas lines. Home occupations or professional offices provided no such use occupies more than 25 percent of the total floor area of the dwelling, not more than one nonresident person is employed on the premises, and such use will not include an operational activity that would create a nuisance to be otherwise incompatible with the surrounding residential area. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Unless specified elsewhere in this ordinance or on the Official Zoning Map, the dimensional requirements of this schedule shall apply to the respective listed districts. Requirements for the W-1; Resource Conservation, SP-1; Shoreland Protection, and PUD (Planned Unit Development) are contained on the Official Zoning Map. 2 No lot shall be created with a length to width ratio greater than three to one A-1 Zone District Setbacks & Dimensional Requirements1 Maximum Building Height 35’ Minimum Lot Area With Public Sewer 5 acres Without Public Sewer 5 acres Minimum Lot Width2 With Public Sewer 300’ Without Public Sewer 300’ Lake / River Setbacks From Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) 75’ Minimum Lotline Setbacks Front (road setbacks may also apply; see below) 50’ Rear Principal Building 50’ Accessory Building 50’ Side Principal Building 20’ Accessory Building 10’ Class A (State and U.S. Numbered Highways): 130 feet from the centerline of the State or U.S. Highway or 66 feet from the right-of-way line, whichever is greater. Class B (County Highways): 75 feet from the centerline of such highway or 42 feet from the right-of-way line, whichever is greater. Class C (Town Roads / Highways): 63 feet from the centerline of the highway or 30 feet from the right-of-way line, whichever is greater.