City of Onalaska, WI Required Improvements

In accordance with the authority granted by § 236.13, Wis. Stats., as may be amended, the Common Council of the City of Onalaska hereby requires that, as a condition of final plat or Certified Survey Map approval, the subdivider agrees to make and install all public improvements required by this or other Titles of the Code of Ordinances, or the subdivider shall provide the City with security to ensure that the subdivider will make the required improvements. As a further condition of approval, the Common Council hereby requires that the subdivider be responsible for the cost of any necessary alterations of any existing utilities, which, by virtue of the platting or Certified Survey Map, fall within the public right-of-way.

Special requirements for nonresidential subdivisions may be imposed by the Common Council, upon the recommendation of the City Engineer, with respect to the installation of public utilities, including water, sewer and stormwater drainage.

As a condition for the acceptance of dedication of public rights-of-way, the City requires that the public ways have been previously provided with all necessary facilities constructed to City specifications, including, but not limited to, sewerage, storm drainage, water mains and services, grading and improvement of the streets and other public ways, sidewalks, streetlighting, traffic control and such other facilities required by the Common Council or that a specific portion of the costs be paid in advance as provided in § 66.0709(2), Wis. Stats., as may be amended:

The required public improvements shall be installed by the subdivider at their cost; or

The subdivider may petition the City for the installation of the required improvements by City contract. The petition must be received by the City prior to September 1 of the year preceding the required installation so that the petition may be considered for inclusion in the City Capital Improvements Project budget. If the Common Council elects to install the petitioned improvements, it shall establish special assessments for the recovery of the costs. The special assessments due from the subdivider for the portion of the petitioned improvements necessary to serve the proposed land division shall be due to the City, together with interest, within six months of the date of City acceptance of the improvements.

Required improvements shall be installed in accordance with the engineering standards and specifications which have been adopted by the Common Council. Where standards and specifications have not been adopted, the improvements shall be made in accordance with good engineering practices, approved prior to the start of construction by the City Engineer. When new or revised standards and/or specifications have been adopted by the City, work on public improvements not begun within one year of the date of final plat adoption shall be made to the new or revised standards and/or specifications. The City Engineer shall review and approve the construction plans, specifications and calculations for the construction of the required public improvements.

Project manager. The subdivider shall designate a project manager who shall be readily available on the project site during the construction of the required public improvements. The project manager shall be granted authority on behalf of the subdivider to make decisions related to the construction of the required public improvements as they may arise during the course of the construction. The project manager shall also be responsible for the scheduling and coordination of the required work to construct the required improvements. Correspondence with or verbal orders to the designated project manager shall have the same authority as with the subdivider directly.

The subdivider shall cause gas, electric power, cable television and telephone facilities to be installed in such a manner as to make adequate service available to each lot in the subdivision, certified survey or land division. All new electrical distribution television cables and telephone lines from which lots are individually served shall be underground unless the Plan Commission specifically allows overhead poles for the following reasons: topography, soil, water table, solid rock, boulders, or other physical conditions would make underground installation unreasonable or impractical; or,

The lots to be served by said facilities can be served directly from existing overhead facilities.

Plans indicating the proposed location of all gas, electrical power, cable television and telephone distribution and transmission lines required to service the plat shall be approved by the City Engineer.