Tichigan, WI

A shed under 36 square feet skips Racine County's zoning permit, but every accessory building on a lot counts toward an aggregate footprint cap, from 720 square feet on small lots up…

Racine County allows one in-law suite as an accessory use in single-family homes across eleven zoning districts, capped at 800 square feet and connected to the main house: never a…

Racine County bars parking or stopping any vehicle on a county road or trail in a way that blocks or limits its use, or in violation of posted signs: with a $25 stipulated-forfeiture…

When snow hits, Racine County's public works director can impose emergency parking restrictions, up to a total ban, on county highways, rustic roads, and county-owned lots, with…

Racine County's zoning code sets a 12-foot minimum width for every driveway and requires the base material to carry emergency and fire vehicles, whether the access crosses open field…

Boats, trailers, snowmobiles, and other recreational vehicles in Racine County must sit in the rear or side yard, at least six feet off the rear and side lot lines.

Racine County treats any vehicle left in one spot 48 hours or more, blocking traffic, or sitting in a no-parking zone as abandoned, letting the sheriff tow and impound it.

Racine County zoning requires every use in every district to provide loading space clear of public streets, so trucks load and unload off the roadway and never back out into traffic…

Racine County allows one commercial vehicle per residential dwelling unit if it's under 10,000 pounds, no taller than 9 feet, and no longer than 26 feet including attachments.

Racine County zoning caps security fences at 10 feet and requires an open woven-wire or wrought-iron style; the fences are allowed on the property line in every zoning district except…

Within Racine County's 75-foot shore yard setback along navigable waters, fences count as prohibited structures, with no exemption listed for them anywhere in the shoreland…

A retaining wall built inside Racine County's shore yard setback is treated as a prohibited structure unless a site plan review, conditional use approval, or the WDNR signs off on it.

Licensed family day care homes are a permitted use in unincorporated Racine County wherever single-family or two-family homes are allowed: no conditional use permit needed, just state…

Racine County's home occupation rule allows exactly one nonilluminated nameplate for a home business: capped at two square feet and set back at least five feet from the road if it's…

Racine County requires a permit for home occupations, capping them at half a dwelling's floor area, two outside employees, and issuing the permit only to the resident who applies, not…

A home occupation in unincorporated Racine County can't require more than two extra off-street parking spaces for clients or customers: beyond that, it stops qualifying as a home…

Racine County requires dogs on its bicycle trails to be leashed with no more than six feet of leash, and bars dogs from most county parks outright except a handful of named…

Racine County permits livestock facilities as a conditional use in agricultural districts but requires at least 35 acres and a 1,000-foot buffer from any residentially zoned land.

Racine County's zoning code doesn't set a countywide cap on dogs, cats, or other household pets. Section 20-1018 hands that decision to each local town board instead.

Racine County Code Sec. 16-5 prohibits feeding any wild animal or fowl on county-owned property, defining feed broadly to include offering, throwing, spreading or leaving food.

Racine County bars keeping any dangerous animal or reptile not domestic to Wisconsin, with narrow carve-outs for zoos, schools, traveling shows and licensed game farms that keep the…

Wisconsin Statute 66.1014 preempts local bans on residential rentals of 7 consecutive days or longer. Anyone offering a short-term rental in Racine County for more than 10 nights per…

Racine County does not impose a countywide STR registration fee, but operators must collect 5% Wisconsin sales tax plus the 0.5% Racine County sales tax (effective April 1, 2025) on…

Wis. Stat. §167.10 governs fireworks statewide and requires a local user's permit issued by the mayor, village president, or town chair before any non-exempt fireworks may be possessed…

Residential open fires for cooking or recreation are allowed in Racine County if kept at least 10 feet from the property line and burned only between 8 a.m. and 7 p.m.

Racine County prohibits all open fires except for a short list of permitted uses like cooking, ceremonies, forest management and limited residential refuse burning, enforced by the…

Racine County's housing maintenance code requires smoke detectors outside every sleeping area and on each additional story, including basements, of dwellings it regulates.

Racine County's zoning code requires that noise from any permitted use be muffled or controlled so it doesn't become objectionable in duration, pitch, or impulse character beyond the…

Racine County's general noise ordinance bans any noisy activity that annoys or disturbs a neighbor, but sets no decibel limit or curfew hour; ordinary, reasonable noise is exempt.

Racine County requires a functioning muffler on snowmobiles, dirt bikes and other recreational vehicles, and bans operating them in a way that creates unreasonable or excessive…

Racine County bans cutting trees or shrubs within 35 feet of a lake or stream's ordinary high-water mark unless the work fits a listed exception or the county issues a…

Racine County requires a zoning permit for any permanent residential swimming pool; only temporary above-ground pools erected less than 120 consecutive days skip the permit under the…

Temporary holiday decorations or displays carrying no commercial message need no zoning permit anywhere in Racine County's zoning districts, and the county code sets no fixed removal…

Temporary signs advertising garage, rummage, or house sales are exempt from Racine County zoning permit requirements, but unlike most other permit-exempt sign categories, the county…

Racine County zoning staff can approve converting an existing nonconforming sign to a digital display without triggering full code compliance, so long as the conversion doesn't make…

In Racine County business and industrial districts, window signs that require a permit cannot cover more than 20 percent of the window or door-window area they are applied to, or 100…

Racine County zoning bars any exterior lighting on a lot from shining glare across the property line: fixtures illuminating buildings, signs, or parking lots must be shielded so direct…

Racine County's floodplain zoning ordinance requires new and substantially improved homes in the floodfringe to raise the lowest floor two feet above the regional flood elevation, plus…

Wis. Stat. §87.30 requires every Wisconsin city, village, town, and county with FEMA-mapped floodplain to adopt a floodplain zoning ordinance meeting Wis. Admin. Code ch. NR 116 and 44…

New subdivisions in Racine County must build stormwater drainage facilities sized to hydraulically handle the design flow, including curbs, catch basins, storm sewers, ditches, and…

Racine County requires engineer-prepared erosion and sedimentation control plans, reviewed by the Land Conservation Office, before approving a plat that involves substantial cutting…

Minors under 18 in Racine County can't be out unsupervised in public places between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.; parents, amusement operators, and hotels that knowingly let it happen face their…

Racine County parks are open only during hours posted at each park, with no single countywide closing time except limited extended hours for approved temporary beer gardens.

Racine County bars bringing in or consuming alcohol in county parks and parkways except in committee-designated areas or licensed venues.

Racine County bars skateboards, scooters, rollerblades, roller skates and motorized versions of each from the courthouse, law enforcement center, service centers and other listed…

Racine County Code Sec. 16-95(a)(3) bans smoking within 25 feet of any entrance to a county building where smoking is prohibited indoors, with shelters at five county parks exempted.

In unincorporated Racine County, it's illegal to loiter as a visitor in or around a public school without staff permission, or to loiter on private-school grounds anywhere in the…

Racine County Code Sec. 16-3 bars soliciting, canvassing or begging from county employees on county property without written permission from the county executive or the county board…

Racine County's disorderly conduct ordinance bars unreasonably loud, boisterous, or otherwise disorderly behavior in public or private places that provokes a disturbance: the provision…

Racine County bans carrying, possessing, or using marijuana, synthetic marijuana, or drug paraphernalia anywhere in the county, mirroring state drug law, with an exception only for a…

Racine County can require developers to build paved, marked bike lanes or on-road bicycle routes along arterial and collector streets in new subdivisions, tied to the county's adopted…

Racine County's health officer can placard a dwelling as a human health hazard and order it vacated within 24 hours of notice, applying countywide except the City of Racine.

Racine County places extermination duty on the occupant of an infested dwelling, but shifts it to the owner when the property itself isn't rodent-proof.

No one may install, replace, repair, or reconnect a private septic (POWTS) or non-plumbing sanitation system in Racine County without a valid county sanitary permit, or sell a septic…

A deck attached to your house in unincorporated Racine County must meet the same setback as the house itself, but a patio under 6 inches off grade skips setback review entirely under…

Racine County dwelling owners must install a working carbon monoxide detector in the basement and on every floor except the attic, garage or storage area.

County trunk highway rights-of-way in Racine County cannot be blocked with landscaping, crops, debris, or altered grades without a written permit from the public works department…

Racine County requires a written access permit before anyone builds a driveway, excavates, or installs a culvert in a county trunk highway right-of-way, administered by the public…

In the county's R-1 Country Estate District, Racine County caps building height at 35 feet under the area requirements table.

Racine County sets a 75-foot shore setback, 100-foot street and rear setbacks, and a 50-foot side setback for the R-1 Country Estate District.

Every tattooist and body piercer working in Racine County must complete an annual, health-division-approved bloodborne pathogen training course, and an establishment that skips this…

Racine County's zoning code flatly bans on-site repair work for other people's vehicles as a home occupation: servicing, salvage, wrecking, or painting non-owner cars, trucks, boats…

Racine County requires a permit for adult establishments and bars any two from operating within 1,000 feet of each other, with hours, signage, and window rules under Chapter 20's…

Racine County Code Sec. 14-71 requires written permission from the public works committee before holding a parade, meeting, entertainment or gathering of any kind in a county park.

Racine County honors any valid state or local health-department permit for mobile food vendors, but its Public Health Division can still inspect the truck and charge a fee before it…

Racine County Code Sec. 16-4 bans dumping garbage, refuse, yard waste or hazardous waste on county-owned property, with fines up to $1,000 and up to 60 days in jail for nonpayment.

Racine County's A-1 farmland preservation district limits non-agricultural encroachment and land-use conflicts, protecting land reserved for food and fiber production under Chapter 20…