The owner shall install survey monuments placed in accordance
with the requirements of the Wisconsin Statutes and as may be required
by the Municipal Engineer.
When permanent rural street sections have been approved by the
Plan Commission and governing body for land divisions outside the
municipality's limits, the owner shall finish grade all shoulders
and road ditches, install all necessary culverts at intersections
and, if required, surface ditch inverts to prevent erosion and sedimentation
in accordance with plans and standard specifications approved by the
Municipal Engineer and as set forth in this chapter.
When public sanitary sewerage facilities are available to the
division or development, the owner shall construct sanitary sewerage
facilities in such a manner as to make adequate sanitary sewerage
service available to each lot within the subdivision. In addition:
A. The Plan Commission and/or governing body may require the installation
of sewer laterals to the street lot line.
B. The size, type, and installation of all sanitary sewers and sanitary
sewer laterals proposed to be constructed shall be in accordance with
plans and standard specifications approved by the Municipal Engineer
and the Master Sanitary Sewer Plan of the municipality.
C. The owner shall assume the cost of installing all sanitary sewers,
sewer laterals, and sewer appurtenances within the proposed division
or development, except for the added cost of installing sewers greater
than 10 inches in diameter which are necessary to serve tributary
drainage areas lying outside the proposed division or development.
D. Reserve capacity for sewage treatment dedication fee. The owner of
all subdivisions, certified survey maps, and assessor's plats
may be required to pay to the Town a fee in an amount to be determined
from time to time by resolution of the Town Board for each residential,
commercial or industrial unit legally established by said division
or development as and for a reserve capacity assessment for the proportionate
share of the total cost of the sewer facilities' total reserve
capacity available for new uses. In the case of multifamily units
the reserve capacity assessment will be based at the rate of 75% of
the unit assessment established herein. The reserve capacity dedication
fee established herein, if required, shall be paid before final approval
of the plat. Said reserve capacity assessment, when paid, shall be
placed by the Municipal Treasurer in a nonlapsing account to be applied
against the expenses of the municipality for the reserve capacity
created.
The owner shall construct stormwater drainage facilities adequate
to serve the division or development which may include curbs and gutters,
catch basins and inlets, storm sewers, road ditches, open channels,
water retention structures and settling basins. All such facilities
shall be of adequate size and grade to hydraulically accommodate the
maximum potential volumes of flow and shall be so designed as to prevent
and control soil erosion and sedimentation and to present no hazards
to life or property. In addition:
A. Drainage facilities shall, if required, include water retention structures
and settling basins so as to prevent erosion and sedimentation where
such facilities discharge into streams or lakes. The design criteria,
the size, type, grades and installation of all stormwater drains and
sewers and other cross-section, invert and erosion control paving
check dams, flumes or other energy-dissipating structures and seeding
and/or sodding of open channels and unpaved road ditches proposed
to be constructed shall be in accordance with the plans and standard
specifications approved by the Municipal Engineer and the Master Stormwater
Drainage Plan of the municipality. The design storm intervals shall
be as set by separate resolution of the Town Board.
B. The owner shall assume the cost of installing all storm sewers within
the proposed division or development, except for the added cost of
installing storm sewers greater than those which are necessary to
serve tributary drainage areas lying outside the proposed division
or development.
When public water supply and distribution facilities are available
or when it is proposed to establish a private water supply and distribution
system to serve two or more lots, the owner shall cause such water
supply and distribution facilities to be installed in such a manner
as to make adequate water service available to each lot. The owner
shall make provision for adequate private water systems as required
by the municipality in accordance with the standards of the Wisconsin
Department of Safety and Professional Services. In addition:
A. The Plan Commission and/or governing body may require the installation
of water laterals to the street lot line.
B. The size, type, and installation of all public water mains proposed
to be constructed shall be in accordance with plans and standard specifications
approved by the Municipal Engineer and the Master Water System Plan
of the municipality.
C. The owner shall assume the cost of installing all water mains, water
laterals, and water system appurtenances except for the added cost
of installing water mains greater than six inches in diameter in areas
zoned single-family or two-family residential and greater than eight
inches in diameter in areas zoned multiple-family residential, business
or industrial.
D. Reserve capacity for water distribution. A reserve capacity fee for
water distribution shall be collected as required by the Municipal
Code.
The owner shall cause appropriate utilities such as gas, electrical
power, cable television, and telephone facilities to be installed
in such a manner as to make adequate service available to each lot.
No such electrical, cable television, or telephone service shall be
located on overhead poles unless approved by the Plan Commission and
governing body. In addition, plans indicating the proposed location
of all gas, electrical power and telephone distribution and transmission
lines required to service the plat shall be approved by the Municipal
Engineer.
The Plan Commission and/or governing body shall require the
owner to pay for the installation of streetlamps, if they are required,
along all streets proposed to be dedicated of a design compatible
with the neighborhood and type of development proposed. Such lamps
shall be placed at each street intersection and at such interior block
spacing as may be required by the Plan Commission and/or governing
body.
The owner shall pay the cost of the acquisition and installation
of street signs of a design as approved by the governing body and/or
its designee at the intersections of all streets proposed to be dedicated
and other necessary locations.
In all urban subdivisions, the owner shall plant at least one
tree of an approved species each 60 feet of frontage on all streets
proposed to be dedicated. The tree shall be at least six feet in height
and 1 1/2 inches in diameter at breast height (dbh). Tree planting
shall be completed in accordance with plans and specifications approved
by and at such time as directed by the Board. The placement and selection
of street trees, however, should not hamper or interfere with solar
access to natural light and air for nearby lots.
The owner shall plant those grasses, trees, and vines, a species
and size specified by the Plan Commission or governing body, necessary
to prevent soil erosion and sedimentation. In addition:
A. The Plan Commission or governing body may require the owner to provide
or install certain protection and rehabilitation measures, such as
fencing, sloping, seeding, riprap, revetments, jetties, clearing,
dredging, snagging, drop structures, brush mats, willow poles, and
grade stabilization structures.
B. Tree cutting and shrubbery clearing shall not exceed 30% of the lot
or tract and shall be conducted as to prevent erosion and sedimentation;
preserve and improve scenic qualities; and, during foliation, substantially
screen any development from stream or lake users.
C. Paths and trails in wooded and wetland areas shall not exceed 10
feet in width unless otherwise approved by the Plan Commission or
governing body and shall be so designed and constructed as to result
in the least removal and disruption of trees and shrubs and the minimum
impairment of natural beauty.
D. Earthmoving, such as grading, topsoil removal, mineral extraction, stream course changing, road cutting, waterway construction or enlargement, removal of streambed or lake bed materials, excavation, channel clearing, ditching, drain tile laying, dredging, and lagooning, shall be so conducted as to prevent erosion and sedimentation and to least disturb the natural fauna, flora, watercourse, water regimen, and topography (see §§
251-68 and
251-69 of this chapter). No topsoil may be removed from the site without permission of the Plan Commission.
E. Review of the conduct of such cutting, clearing, and moving may be
requested of the County Soil and Water Conservation District Supervisors,
the State District Fish and Game Managers, and the State District
Forester by the Municipal Engineer or Plan Commission or governing
body as he or it deems appropriate.