Zoning, building permits and septic rules in Town of Kaukauna, Wisconsin

Town of Kaukauna’s own rules

• Local zoningPresent (with conditions)

  Land inside Kaukauna town (Town of Kaukauna, Outagamie County, WI) outside incorporated villages and cities, administered under the town's own zoning ordinance

  • The ordinance footer reads datcp certified on november 6, 2024. No adoption or effective date statement was captured, so effective_at is null.
  • Districts are established by official zoning maps that accompany the ordinance; the map was not opened.

  “the town of kaukauna, outagamie county, state of wisconsin, outside the limits of incorporated villages and cities is hereby divided into the following zoning districts”

• Zoning districtsPublished

  Zoning districts inside Kaukauna town

  • Districts listed in section 3.1: exclusive agricultural/farmland preservation; general agricultural; reserved; rural development; mobile home exception; commercial; light industrial; heavy industrial; institutional.
  • The zoning map is offered on the town forms page as a PDF; the map itself was not opened.

  “town of kaukauna zoning map (pdf) download”

• Minimum lot sizeSpecified

  General agricultural district of Kaukauna town (the regulations paragraph that precedes section 3.5 reserved)

  • The district heading was not captured in the open-page output. The identification rests on the ordinance's list of conditional uses in that paragraph, which includes sanitary landfill, and on the section 4.0 reference to the general agriculture district; confirm before relying on it.
  • The captured text places the five-acre minimum under the district's conditional-use standards; whether it governs ordinary residential lots is not stated.

  minimum lot area: >= 5 acre · minimum lot width: >= 150 feet

  “e. regulations and standards. 1. minimum lot area - five (5) acres. 2. minimum lot width - 150 feet. 3. minimum front yard - 25 feet.”

  2 more reviewed findings on this topic

  • Specified — Lots created for residential use inside Kaukauna town under the general site regulations (section 2.6), applicable across districts

    “b. all lots created for residential use shall have a minimum lot size of onehalf acre of useable land.”

  • Specified — Rural development district (section 3.6) of Kaukauna town

    “d. lot regulations and standards. 1. minimum lot area - one (1) acre. 2. minimum lot width - 150 feet.”

• SetbacksSpecified

  Rural development district (section 3.6) of Kaukauna town

  • Road setback is 25 feet from all roads, alleys and service roads, except U.S. Highway 41 and class A highways, which require 55 feet from the highway right-of-way unless service roads are provided (then 25 feet from the service road right-of-way line).

  road setback: >= 25 feet (U.S. Highway 41 and class A highways: 55 feet, or 25 feet from service road right-of-way) · rear yard: >= 25 feet · side yard: >= 5 feet

  “3. rear yard. there shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty-five (25) feet. 4. side yard. structures shall be located no less than 5 feet from any side lot line.”

  One more reviewed finding on this topic

  • Specified — General agricultural district of Kaukauna town (same caveat on district identification as the lot-size claim)

    “e. regulations and standards. 1. minimum lot area - five (5) acres. 2. minimum lot width - 150 feet. 3. minimum front yard - 25 feet.”

• Building heightSpecified

  Rural development district (section 3.6) of Kaukauna town

  • Height limit stated for the rural development district only; the general agricultural district height was not captured.

  maximum building height: <= 35 feet (text reads may not exceed 35 feet or 2½ stories in height) · maximum building height: <= 2.5 stories

  “1. height. buildings may not exceed 35 feet or 2½ stories in height.”

• Living in an RVLimited

  Trailers and mobile homes parked on private land inside Kaukauna town; the ordinance has no RV-specific text captured

  • A single mobile home may be parked in any district for up to 30 days without a town board permit if it meets accessory-building placement rules.
  • Trailers parked longer than 30 days are a residence requiring a town board permit and compliance with the other chapter rules.

  “single trailers parked for longer than thirty (30) days shall be considered a residence, and the owner thereof shall apply for a permit from the town board and comply with all the other regulations set out in this chapter.”

• Manufactured homesLimited

  Manufactured and mobile homes on private land inside Kaukauna town

  • The rural development district text (section 3.6) lists manufactured and/or mobile home among its uses; whether that use is permitted or conditional is not confirmed in captured text.
  • Section 3.7 b restricts occupancy of a mobile home as a residence unless the owner owns the land under it; the rest of that sentence was not captured.

  “a. single mobile home may be parked in any district for a period not exceeding thirty (30) days without securing a permit from the town board”

• Septic permitRequired

  Private sewage disposal systems located, installed, moved, reconstructed, extended, enlarged, converted, substantially altered or changed in use inside Kaukauna town

  • A land use permit cannot issue until a sanitary permit is issued (section 2.8 b).

  “a. no private water supply or sewage disposal system or parts thereof shall be located, installed, moved reconstructed, extended, enlarged, converted, substantially altered or their use changed without a sanitary permit and without full compliance with the county sanitary code.”

• Off-grid sanitationLimited

  Off-grid sewage handling (holding tanks and mound systems) on private land inside Kaukauna town

  • Allowed only as approved under the county sanitary code. Other non-sewered systems were not addressed in the captured text.

  “c. holding tanks and mound type sewage absorption systems are allowed in the town as approved by county sanitary code.”

• Well permitRequired

  Private water supply systems inside Kaukauna town

  • The town requires a sanitary permit for any private water supply system. A separate county well-construction permit was not identified in the captured text.

  “a. no private water supply or sewage disposal system or parts thereof shall be located, installed, moved reconstructed, extended, enlarged, converted, substantially altered or their use changed without a sanitary permit and without full compliance with the county sanitary code.”

• Permit processPublished (with conditions)

  Town of Kaukauna land-use, zoning and related permits

  • Forms listed include zoning application, county zoning approval form, CSM review application, road-driveway permit, utility permit and fireworks permit. Submittal steps and the fee schedule were not captured.

  “zoning application (pdf) download county zoning approval form (pdf) download hall rental contract”

Still unanswered

We looked and could not find an official answer yet. Silence is not permission; ask Town of Kaukauna or Outagamie County directly.

• Owner-builder exemption — Owner-builder exemption for dwellings inside Kaukauna town
• Inspections — Building inspections for construction inside Kaukauna town
• Certificate of occupancy — Certificates of occupancy for new dwellings inside Kaukauna town
• Minimum dwelling size — Minimum dwelling floor area inside Kaukauna town
• Lot coverage — Maximum lot coverage inside Kaukauna town

Each answer was extracted from an official source and independently re-checked against that source by a second reviewer. That is an evidence check, not legal advice. Rules change; confirm with the authority before you buy or build.