The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:
A public right-of-way which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
A street which provides for the movement of relatively fast
or heavy traffic to, from or within the Village. It has a secondary
function of providing access to abutting land.
An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded
by a combination or combinations of streets, exterior boundary lines
of the subdivision, and streams or water bodies.
A street which collects and distributes internal traffic
within an urban area, such as a residential neighborhood, between
arterial and local streets. It provides access to abutting property.
The Plan Commission created by the Village Board pursuant
to § 62.23, Wis. Stats.
A comprehensive plan, also called a master plan, prepared
by the Village, indicating the general locations recommended for the
various functional classes of land use, places and structures and
for the general physical development of the Village and includes any
unit or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to
such plan or parts thereof.
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.
Where the title or any part thereof is transferred by the
execution of a land contract, an option to purchase, an offer to purchase
and acceptance, a deed or a certified survey.
The area of land set aside or over or through which a liberty,
privilege or advantage in land, distinct from ownership of the land,
is granted to the public or some particular person or part of the
public.
The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of a fourth-class
city or a village and within three miles of all other cities.
The final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's
plan of subdivision is presented for approval and which, if approved,
will be submitted to the County Register of Deeds.
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.
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, curb and gutter,
water main, roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrianway,
planting strip or other facility for which the Village may ultimately
assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
A street of little or no continuity designed to provide access
to abutting property and leading into collector streets. Also referred
to as a "minor street."
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street or other
officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the
lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open
space provisions of this chapter and any applicable zoning ordinance.
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot,
excluding streets and land under navigable bodies of water.
A lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.
The peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
A corner lot which is oriented so that it has its rear lot
line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior
lot immediately to its rear.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On
a "through lot," both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
The width of a parcel of land measured along the front building
line.
A street used or intended to be used primarily for fast or
heavy through traffic. Major thoroughfares shall include freeways,
expressways and other highways and parkways, as well as arterial streets.[1]
A street used or intended to be used primarily for access
to abutting properties; also referred to as a "local street."
The division of land by the owner or subdivider resulting
in the creation of not more than four parcels or building sites.[2]
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation,
public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these.
A public way, usually running at right angles to streets,
which is intended for the convenience of pedestrians only; it may
also provide public right-of-way for utilities.
The map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plat
of subdivision is presented to the Village for approval.
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the
proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Plan Commission
and Village Board for their consideration as to compliance with the
Comprehensive Plan, Zoning Code and these regulations along with required
supporting data.
Contracts entered into between private parties or between
private parties and public bodies pursuant to § 236.293,
Wis. Stats., which constitute a restriction on the use of all private
or platted property within a minor land division or subdivision for
the benefit of the public or property owners and to provide mutual
protection against undesirable aspects of development which would
tend to impair stability of values.
The process of changing, or a map or plat which changes,
the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The
legal dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision
plat or certified survey map without changing exterior boundaries
of said block, lot or outlot is not a replat.
Those lands within the following distances: 1,000 feet from
the high-water elevation of navigable lakes, ponds and flowages or
300 feet from the high-water elevation of navigable streams or to
the landward side of the floodplain, whichever is greater.
Any person, firm or corporation or any agent thereof dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
(certified survey map) or replat.
The division of a lot, outlot, parcel or tract of land by
the owner thereof or his agent for the purpose of transfer of ownership
or building development where the act of division creates five or
more parcels or building sites of 1 1/2 acres or less in area,
or where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites by successive division within a period of five years, whether
done by the original owner or a successor owner.
An area where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation
and which has soils indicative of wet conditions. [Section 23.32(1),
Wis. Stats.]
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority
in Wisconsin, published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system,
as directed by § 35.93 and Ch. 227, Wis. Stats., including
subsequent amendments to those rules.
