The Airport Approach Protection (A-A-P) regulations are adopted under the authority granted by the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Chapter 114, Section 114.136, Wis. Stats and are intended to limit the height of structures within overlay district.

 A-A-P Help Sheet

The Business Regional (B-R) district provides for regional commercial uses which are compatible with highway travel. The purpose of this district is to accommodate local or regional shopping areas which rely upon automobile travel. Where possible, access roads with controlled egress and ingress to highways and local roads should be encouraged.

B-R Business Regional District

The Commercial (C) district provides or promotes uses principally to accommodate the sale of retail goods, personal services, and administrative establishments, thereby encouraging local or regional shopping areas. It is intended that the design of this district will encourage grouping of business establishments located on a unified site providing adequate off-street parking facilities as well as an efficient and safe method for handling vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

Commercial District Help Sheet

The Conservancy/Recreation district provides areas that conserve existing undeveloped natural areas and include the following:

• To preserve and protect the value of distinctive geologic, topographic, botanic, historic, or scenic areas;
• To protect the ecological balance of an area;
• To conserve natural resources, such as river valleys, and tracts of forest land;
• To reduce the problems created by intensive development of areas having excessively high water tables, or which are subject to flooding, or which are topographically unsuited for urban type uses.
• To provide for the orderly and attractive grouping of passive recreation-oriented establishments, facilities, and structures.

Conservancy/Recreation District Help Sheet

The intent of this district is to maintain highly productive agricultural lands in food and fiber production, preserve productive farms by effectively limiting encroachment of non-agricultural development and minimizing land use conflicts among incompatible uses, control public service costs, and maintain a viable agricultural base to support agricultural processing and service industries. The Farmland Preservation zoning district is an area planned primarily for agricultural use, agricultural-related use, or both, and that is identified as an agricultural preservation area or in a farmland preservation plan described in 91.12(1) Wis. Stats. Identified under 91.10(1)(d) in a farmland preservation plan described in the 91.12(2) Wis. Stats., this district is not intended to accommodate or facilitate nonagricultural growth.

Farmland Preservation Planning District Help Sheet

The General Agricultural (G-A) district is designed to foster the preservation and use of agricultural land related uses and to provide for limited residential uses in a rural environment but not the division of land as classified in 18.07(2) and (3) into five or more tracts, parcels or lots within a five year period. This district provides for limited residential development with modest densities that require relatively large land areas that are compatible with the surrounding rural land use activities. The district is intended to provide towns with multiple options to guide growth and development in concert with the comprehensive planning efforts.

General Agriculture District Help Sheet

The Heavy Industrial (H-I) district is intended to provide for uses which by their nature could exhibit characteristics harmful, noxious, or detrimental to surrounding uses of the land.

Heavy Industrial District Help Sheet

The Highway Corridor and Interchange Overlay (HWY) District is intended to promote highway safety by protecting the traffic carrying capacity of divided highways through access controls to the intersecting roads and the orderly development of adjacent lands much of which will be related to the particular corridor and interchange. Commercial and industrial uses shall be restricted to interchange areas only while agriculture and some limited residential development may be permitted where access is via an at grade intersection.

Highway Corridor Overlay District Help Sheet

The Low Density Residential (L-D-R) district accommodates single-family residential use(s) along existing streets and to promote single-family residential development (involving the extension of new streets) where sanitary sewer and municipal water may be available. The densities are intended to provide for areas of suburban character in the community and to prevent excessive demands on sewerage and water systems, streets, schools, and other community facilities. The districts are intended to avoid overcrowding by requiring certain minimum yards, open spaces, and site area while making available a variety of dwelling types and densities to serve a wide range of individual requirements and thereby providing a more orderly and efficient extension of public facilities.

Low Density Residential District Help Sheet

The purposes of the Light Industrial (L-I) district are:

• To provide an environment exclusively for and conducive to the development and protection of modern administrative facilities and research institutions that are office-like in physical appearance and service requirements.
• To provide for and accommodate industrial uses in the fields of repair, storage, manufacturing, processing, wholesaling, and distribution, free from the encroachment of residential, retail, and institutional uses unless otherwise specified in this ordinance. The uses allowed are those which, because of their normally unobjectionable characteristics, can be in relatively close proximity to residential and commercial districts.

Light Industrial District Help Sheet

The Manufactured/Mobile Home Park (M-H) District is created to provide for the regulation of existing manufactured housing areas in the County and to regulate the use of manufactured homes therein. Manufactured/Mobile Home Parks may be allowed as a conditional use in the M-H district subject to the requirements of this section and upon issuance of a conditional use permit by the Board of Adjustment after public hearing.

Manufactured/Mobile Home Park District Help Sheet

The Neighborhood Commercial (N-C) district accommodates the wide range of retail stores and personal service establishments which cater to frequent recurring needs.

Neighborhood Commercial District Help Sheet

The Rural Estate (R-E) district accommodates single-family residential use(s) along existing streets, to preserve the rural character while promoting open space single-family medium residential development (involving the extension of new streets), and to separate agricultural uses from other more extensive community development within the County. Limited agricultural activities and livestock are allowed in this district. These areas may or may not be serviced by municipal water and sanitary sewer.

Rural Estate District Help Sheet

The Rural Residential (R-R) district accommodates single-family residential use(s) along existing streets, to preserve the rural character while promoting open space single-family residential development (involving the extension of new streets), and to separate agricultural uses from other more extensive community development within the county. Limited agricultural activities are permitted in this district. These areas may or may not be serviced by municipal water and sanitary sewer.

Rural Residential District Help Sheet

U-R district encourages relatively greater density residential development in areas generally adjacent to the built up sections of the community or in areas of existing development of such density. The Residential districts are designed to encourage a suitable environment for family life by permitting under certain conditions, such neighborhood facilities as churches, schools, playgrounds, and appropriate institutions and by protecting the residential character against non-compatible uses. The U-R district is to encourage multi-family development at densities up to five dwelling units per acre in areas adjacent to community shopping facilities. Development is to consist primarily of single-family (attached or detached), planned unit development, and multi-family dwellings in groupings will provide for the efficient development and utilization of community facilities.

Urban Residential District Help Sheet

Wellhead Protection District (W-P) institutes land use regulations to protect the municipal water supplies, and may impose greater restrictions than Wisconsin Administrative Code ATCP51 to protect the public health, safety, and general welfare of the residents of Marathon County.

Wellhead Protection District Help Sheet