The Evansville Zoning Ordinance is authorized in
accordance with Wis. Stats. 62.23. The ordinance is designed to
promote the comfort, health, safety, morals, prosperity, aesthetics
and general welfare of this community; to regulate and restrict
the use of all lands and waters; to regulate and restrict the
height, number of stories and size of buildings and other structures,
the percentage of lot that may be occupied, the size of yards,
courts and other open spaces, the density of population, and the
location and use of buildings, structures and land for trade,
industry, residence or other purposes; to further the appropriate
use of land and promote the beauty of the community; to stabilize
and protect property values; to preserve and promote the beauty
of the community; to preserve productive and historic agricultural
soils; and to implement the community's master plan or plan components.
Common zoning terms are defined below. Additional zoning definitions,
as well as explanations, are provided within the Evansville Zoning
Ordinance. To review or receive a copy of this ordinance, please
contact the City Clerk at 608-882-2266.
Conditional Use means
certain uses in situations which are of such a special nature,
or are so dependent upon actual contemporary circumstances, as
to make impractical the predetermination of permissibility, or
the detailing in this chapter of specific standards, regulation,
or conditions which would permit such determination in each individual
situation, may be permitted as conditional uses.
Development means
any manmade change to improved or unimproved real estate,
including but not limited to the construction of buildings,
structures or accessory structures; the construction or additions
or substantial alterations to buildings, structures or accessory
structures; the placement of buildings or structures; ditching,
lagooning, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation
or drilling operations; and the deposition or excavation of
earthen materials.
Nonconforming structure
means a building or premises lawfully used, occupied or erected
at the time of the passage of the ordinance from which this
chapter is derived or at the time of an amendment thereto,
which does not conform to the regulations of this chapter
with respect to frontage, width, height, area, yard, parking,
loading or distance requirements.
Nonconforming use
means the use or occupancy of a building or premises, which
is lawful at the time of enactment of the ordinance from which
this chapter is derived or at the time of enactment of amendments
thereto, but which use or occupancy does not conform to the
provisions of this chapter or any amendments thereto.
Permitted use.
Uses listed under this heading are permitted as of right.
This means that an applicant for a building permit shall be
given a permit if he or she meets the other requirements of
the chapter, e.g., yards, setbacks and so forth.
Variance means
authority granted to the owner to use his or her property
in a manner which is prohibited by this chapter. A variance
is a departure from the terms of this chapter where it is
shown that unique physical circumstances applying to a land
parcel cause a hardship to the owner and that the condition
permitted by the departure still will be in fundamental harmony
with surrounding uses.
Further Information:
Zoning Code
Zoning Map (1/16/08)
Interim Future Land Use Map (9/12/07)
Future Land Use Map (9/12/07)
Construction and Land Use /Forms
Library of Minutes,
Agendas and Other Files
