A final plat prepared by a registered land surveyor
shall be required for all subdivisions. It shall comply in all respects
with the requirements of § 236.20, Wis. Stats.
The plat shall show correctly on its face, in
addition to the information required by § 236.20, Wis. Stats.,
the following:
A.
Exact length and bearing of the center line of all
streets.
B.
Exact street width along the line of any obliquely
intersecting street.
C.
Railroad rights-of-way within and abutting the plat.
D.
Setbacks or building lines required by the City Plan
Commission or other City ordinances.
E.
Utility and/or drainage easements.
F.
All lands reserved for future public acquisition or
reserved for the common use of property owners within the plat.
G.
Special restrictions required by the City Plan Commission
relating to access control along public ways, delineation of floodland
limits, or to the provision of planting strips.
The City Plan Commission may require that deed
restrictions be filed with the final plat.
The City Engineer shall examine all final plats
within the City and may make or cause to be made by a registered land
surveyor, under the supervision or direction of the City Engineer,
field checks for the accuracy and closure of survey, the proper kind
and location of monuments and the legibility and completeness of the
drawing. In addition:
A.
Maximum error of closure before adjustment of the
survey of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision shall not exceed,
in horizontal distance or position, the ratio of one part in 10,000
nor, in azimuth, four seconds of arc per interior angle. If field
measurements exceed this maximum, new field measurements shall be
made until a satisfactory closure is obtained. When a satisfactory
closure of the field measurements has been obtained, the survey of
the exterior boundary shall be adjusted to form a closed geometric
figure.
B.
All street, block and lot dimensions shall be computed
as closed geometric figures based upon the control provided by the
closed exterior boundary survey. If field checks disclose an error
for any interior line of the plat greater than the ratio of one part
in 5,000 or an error in measured angle greater than one minute of
arc for any angle where the shorter side forming the angle is 300
feet or longer, necessary corrections shall be made. Where the shorter
side of a measured angle is less than 300 feet in length, the error
shall not exceed the value of one minute multiplied by the quotient
of 300 divided by the length of the shorter side; however, such error
shall not in any case exceed five minutes of arc.
C.
The Common Council shall receive the results of the
City Engineer's examination prior to approving the final plat.
All final plats shall meet all the surveying
and monumenting requirements of § 236.15, Wis. Stats.
Where the plat is located within a United States
Public Land Survey quarter-section, the corners of which have been
relocated, monumented and coordinated by the City of Burlington, Racine
or Walworth County or the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning
Commission, the plat shall be tied directly to one of the section
or quarter corners so relocated, monumented and coordinated. The exact
grid bearing and distance of such tie shall be determined by field
measurements, and the material and Wisconsin state plane coordinates
of the monument marking the relocated section or quarter corner to
which the plat is tied shall be indicated on the plat. The grid bearing
and distance of the tie shall be determined by a closed survey meeting
the error of closure herein specified for the survey of the exterior
boundaries of the subdivision. All distances and bearings shall be
referenced directly to the Wisconsin Coordinate System, South Zone,
and adjusted to the City's control survey.
All final plats shall provide all the certificates
required by § 236.21, Wis. Stats. The certificate shall
contain a description of the survey beginning at the United States
Public Land Survey corner to which the survey is tied. In addition,
the surveyor shall certify that he has fully complied with all the
provisions of this chapter.
The final plat shall only be recorded with the
County Register of Deeds after the certificates of the Department
of Administration, of the Common Council, and of the Surveyor, and
those certificates required by § 236.21, Wis. Stats., are
placed on the face of the plat. The plat shall be recorded within
30 days of its approval by the Common Council.
