Village
of Plover
C- Conservancy District
PURPOSE. The Conservancy District
is established to provide protection to environmentally sensitive
lands such as flood plains, wetlands, shore lands and well fields.
It is also intended that this District include and regulate all
flood lands known to be within the 100 year flood zone as required
by §87.30, Wis. Stats., Wis. Adm. Code NR116 and Federal Register
rules of §1910.3, enacted pursuant to the National Flood Insurance
Program.
PERMITTED USES.
(a) Truck gardening, field crops, hay fields and garden plots.
(b) Pasturing of horses associated with residential uses provided
that sheltering is provided for such horses.
(c) Public parks and playgrounds.
(d) Study and research of plant material, fish and wildlife.
(e) Bicycling and hiking trails.
(f) Railroad rights-of-way.
CONDITIONAL USES.
(a) Open space leisure, instructional or recreational activities
requiring disruption of natural conditions including the placement
of structures or devices not natural to the area.
(b) Any corporate or municipal utility structure, substation, transmission
line or pipeline.
(c) Dams, dikes, drainage channels, reservoirs, bulkheads and other
structures or devices for the control of flowing or standing water.
(d) Private or public roads or streets.
(e) Any public or private filling, grading, lagooning or dredging
consistent with any State or Federal flood plain or wetland regulations,
if applicable.
(f) Pine plantations and orchards.
PERFORMANCE STANDARDS. These
standards are intended to promote the health, safety and general
welfare of the public through the protection of water quality, prevention
of erosion and siltation, and the preservation of natural open spaces
and plant material for the maintenance of aesthetic living environment
and the maintenance of air quality.
TREE AND SHRUBBERY CUTTING REGULATED.
The cutting of trees and shrubbery shall be regulated to protect
scenic beauty, control erosion and reduce the flow of pollutants
and nutrients from the shoreline.
(a) In a strip 50 feet inland from the normal high water line of
navigable streams and lakes and 25 feet inland from all other natural
and manmade drainage courses, no more than 30 feet in any 200 feet
shall be clear cut. In other conservancy areas, trees and shrub
cutting shall be governed by consideration of the effect on water
quality and basic aesthetic quality and should be in accord with
accepted timber management practices.
(b) These provisions shall not apply to the removal of dead, diseased
or dying trees or to silvivultural thinning.
(c) Commercial harvesting of trees shall be allowed in accordance
with accepted forest management practices and the other specified
standards of this section. Commercial
harvesting of trees is not permitted within the 25 foot or 50 foot
strips of par. (a) above.
STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS.
See ch. 21 of this Code relating to the Flood Plain District.
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