These regulations are adopted under the authority
granted by § 236.45, Wis. Stats.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the
"Subdivision Control Ordinance for the Town of Grand Chute."
The purpose of this chapter is to supplement
the provisions of Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and to promote the public
health, safety and general welfare within the Town of Grand Chute;
to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to further the orderly
layout and use of land; to secure safety from fire, panic and other
dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding
of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate
adequate provision for transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks,
playgrounds and other public requirements; and to facilitate the further
resubdivision of larger tracts into smaller parcels of land. The provisions
of this chapter are made with reasonable consideration, among other
things, of the character of the Town with a view of conserving the
value of the buildings placed upon the land, providing the best possible
environment for human habitation and encouraging the most appropriate
use of land throughout the Town.
The provisions of this chapter shall be liberally
construed in favor of the Town and shall not be deemed a limitation
or repeal of any other power granted by the Wisconsin Statutes.
It is not the intent of this chapter to repeal,
abrogate, annual, impair or interfere with existing rules and regulations
governing the subdivision of land; provided, however, that where this
chapter is more restrictive, the provisions of this chapter shall
govern.
No person, firm or corporation shall divide,
monument or describe any land located within the jurisdictional limits
of these regulations which results in a subdivision, other division,
or a replat as defined herein, no such division, other division, or
replat shall be entitled to record, and no streets shall be laid out
or improvements made to land without compliance with all requirements
of this chapter and:
A. Provisions of Ch. 236, Wis. Stats.
B. Rules of the Wisconsin State Department of Safety
and Professional Services if the land to be subdivided is not served
by a public sewer and provisions for such service have not been made.
C. Rules of the State Department of Transportation if
the land owned or controlled by the subdivider abuts on a state trunk
highway or connecting street.
D. A duly approved Comprehensive Plan or any component thereof, including Chapter
535, Zoning, of this Code, the Official Map, and all other applicable ordinances of the Town.
E. Applicable local and county ordinances.
The recording of a condominium plat or amended condominium plat shall constitute a division, monumenting or description of lands subject to regulation and approval by the Town Board and shall be deemed as a subdivision, other division or amended plat or replat. No improvement to said lands shall be made without a building permit obtained in compliance with Chapter
220, Building Construction, of this Code. No common area streets, easements or public dedications access shall be laid out or improvements made to land without compliance with all requirements of this chapter and:
A. All restrictive covenants, conditions and regulations
required by the Town at the time of approval of the condominium plat.
B. Rules of the Wisconsin State Department of Safety
and Professional Services if the land to be subdivided is not served
by a public sewer and provisions for such service have not been made.
C. Rules of the State Department of Transportation if
the land owned or controlled by the subdivider abuts on a state trunk
highway or connecting street.
D. A duly approved Comprehensive Plan or any component thereof, including Chapter
535, Zoning, of this Code, the Official Map, and all other applicable ordinances of the Town.
E. Applicable local and county ordinances.
For the purpose of these regulations, the following
terms are defined. Words used in the present tense include the future,
the singular number includes the plural number, and the plural number
includes the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory.
ALLEY
A special public way affording only secondary access to abutting
properties.
ARTERIAL STREET
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for fast
or heavy through traffic. Arterial streets shall include freeways
and expressways as well as standard arterial streets, highways and
parkways.
BLOCK
A parcel of land bounded on at least one side by a street
and on the other sides by a natural or man-made barrier.
BOARD
Town Board of Supervisors of the Town of Grand Chute.
BUILDING SITE
A parcel of land occupied, or intended to be occupied, by
a structure as permitted under applicable zoning regulations.
CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP
A map of a land split prepared in accordance with this chapter
and Ch. 236, Wis. Stats. See "minor subdivision."
CLERK
Clerk of the Town of Grand Chute.
COLLECTOR STREET
A street used, or intended to be used, to carry traffic from
minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the
principal entrance streets to residential developments.
COMMUNITY
A town, municipality, or a group of adjacent towns and/or
municipalities having common social, economic or physical interests.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
A master plan adopted by the Town Plan Commission and certified
by the Town Board pursuant to § 62.23, Wis. Stats., including
proposals for future land use, transportation, urban redevelopment
and public facilities. Devices for the implementation of these plans,
such as zoning, official map, land division, and building line ordinances
and capital improvement programs, shall also be considered a part
of the Comprehensive Plan.
CUL-DE-SAC STREET
A minor street closed at one end with a turnaround provided
for vehicles.
FRONTAGE STREET
A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting
development.
MINOR STREET
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access
to abutting properties.
MINOR SUBDIVISION
The division of land by the owner or subdivider resulting
in the creating of four parcels or building sites, any one of which
is 10 acres in size or less, or the division of a block, lot or outlot
within a recorded subdivision plat into not more than four parcels
or building sites without changing the exterior boundaries of said
block, lot or outlot, or where a road is created. See "certified survey
map."
OFFICIAL MAP
That map adopted pursuant to § 62.23, Wis. Stats.,
which shows existing and proposed streets, highways, parkways, parks
and playgrounds, and drainageways.
OUTLOT
A parcel of land, not intended for immediate development,
so designated on the plat, replat or certified survey map.
PLAT
A map of a subdivision complete with all certificates and
engineering data per Ch. 236, Wis. Stats.
PUBLIC WAY
The changing of the boundaries of a recorded subdivision
plat or part thereof.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm, corporation, any agent thereof, assigns
or the landowner at the time the subdivision plat is recorded dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
or replat, as defined herein.
SUBDIVISION
The division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owners
thereof, or their agents, for the purpose of transfer of ownership
or building development where the act of division creates five or
more parcels or building sites of 10 acres each or less in area or
where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites of 10 acres each or less in area by successive division within
a period of five years.
TOWN
Town of Grand Chute.
TOWN BOARD
Town Board of Supervisors of the Town of Grand Chute.
Any person who builds upon, divides, conveys,
records or monuments in violation of or fails to comply with the provisions
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, forfeit an amount
as prescribed in the Uniform Forfeiture and Bond Schedules plus the
costs of prosecution for each violation and in default of payment
of such forfeiture and costs shall be imprisoned in the county jail
until payment thereof, but not exceeding 30 days. Each violation and
each day a violation exists or continues shall constitute a separate
offense. In addition, the remedies authorized by §§ 236.30,
236.31 and 235.32, Wis. Stats., shall be available to the Town.