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8.0 ZONING ORDINANCE THE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF THE COUNTY OF DOUGLAS DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I. INTRODUCTION 1.1. Authority and Purpose For the purposes listed in Sections 59.69 and 59.692 Wis. Stats., the Board of Supervisors of Douglas County in regular session this 10th day of December, 1970 do ordain and enact as follows: An ordinance regulating and restricting the location, construction and use of buildings, structures, and the use of land in the unincorporated portions of Douglas County and or said purposes dividing the County into districts. 1.2 Interpretation The provisions of this ordinance shall be held to be minimum requirements, adopted for the promotion and protection for the public health, morals, safety, or the general welfare. Whenever the requirements of this ordinance are at variance with the requirements of any other lawfully adopted regulations, ordinances, or private covenants, the most restrictive, or that imposing the higher standards, shall govern. The shoreland provisions of this ordinance shall not require approval or be subject to disapproval by any town board. SECTION II. DEFINITIONS 2.1 For the purpose of this ordinance, certain terms or words herein shall be interpreted or defined as follows: Words used in the present tense include the future tense. The singular includes the plural. The word "person" includes an individual, all partnerships, associations, and bodies politic and corporate. The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel". The term "shall" is always mandatory. The word "used" or"occupied" as applied to any land or building shall be construed to include the words "intended, arranged or designed to be used or occupied." (1) ACCESSORY USE: A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use or building and located on the same lot with such principal use or building. (2) BACKLOT: A parcel or tract of land located within a shoreland that does not Chapter 8.0, Page 1