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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. 12-2014 Phone: [PHONE REDACTED] FAX: [PHONE REDACTED] Web: www.douglascountywi.org 3.6 A-1 AGRICULTURAL DISTRICT 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. Salvage yards, noncommercial. ---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 Minimum area for one-family dwellings: add 5,000 square ft. for each additional unit over one 3 Backlot: A parcel or tract of land located within a shoreland that does not front a navigable body of water, capable of being occupied by one residence and the accessory buildings or uses customarily incidental to it. 4 No lot shall be created with a length to width ratio greater than three to one 5 Setback requirements from rivers and streams = 125 ft. from the ordinary highwater mark (OHWM), EXCEPT the St. Croix, Brule and Eau Claire Rivers = 200 ft. All other = Class 3 Setbacks (125 feet) apply A-1 Zone District Outside Shorelands Maximum Building Height 35’ Minimum Lot Area With Public Sewer 5 acres Without Public Sewer 5 acres Minimum Lot Width With Public Sewer 300’ Without Public Sewer 300’ Minimum Lotline Setbacks Front 50’ Rear Principal Building 50’ Accessory Building 50’ Side Principal Building 20’ Accessory Building 10’ Minimum Floor Area, Dwelling 3+ Bedrooms 1,000 sq. ft. 2 Bedrooms 900 sq. ft. 1 Bedroom 800 sq. ft. Minimum Floor Area, Mobile Home 3+ Bedrooms 800 sq. ft. 2 Bedrooms 700 sq. ft. 1 Bedroom 600 sq. ft. A-1 Zone District Within Shorelands1 8.4 Shoreland Zoning Ordinance / 2.1 Areas to be Regulated: Areas regulated by this ordinance shall include all the lands (referred to herein as shorelands): 2.11 Within one thousand (1,000) feet of the ordinary highwater mark (OHWM) of navigable lakes, ponds or flowages. 2.12 Within three hundred (300) feet of the ordinary highwater mark (OHWM) of navigable rivers or streams, or to the landward side of the floodplain, whichever distance is greater. Maximum Building Height 35’ Backlot Minimum Lot Area 2 With Public Sewer 5 acres Without Public Sewer (Backlots3) 5 acres Minimum Shoreline Lot Area Class 1 5 acres Class 2 5 acres Class 3 5 acres Minimum Lot Width 4 Class 1 300’ Class 2 300’ Class 3 300’ Minimum Setbacks from Ordinary High Water Mark 5 Class 1 75’ Class 2 100’ Class 3 125’ Minimum Front Lotline Setbacks Front 50’ Minimum Side Lotline Setbacks Class 1 and Class 2 10’ Minimum / 40’ Total Class 3 20’ Minimum / 50’ Total Minimum Floor Area, Dwelling 3+ Bedrooms 1,000 sq. ft. 2 Bedrooms 900 sq. ft. 1 Bedroom 800 sq. ft. Minimum Floor Area, Mobile Home 3+ Bedrooms 800 sq. ft. 2 Bedrooms 700 sq. ft. 1 Bedroom 600 sq. ft.