It is the intent of the Common Council to establish an Official Map
for the purpose of conserving and promoting the public health, safety, convenience,
economy, orderliness and general welfare of the community; to further the
orderly layout in the use of land; to stabilize the location of real property
boundary lines; to ensure proper legal description and proper monumenting
of land; to facilitate adequate provision for transportation, parks, playgrounds
and stormwater drainage; and to facilitate the further subdivision of larger
tracts into smaller parcels of land.
This chapter is enacted under the authority granted by § 62.23(6),
Wis. Stats.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meaning
indicated:
PARKWAYIncludes any right-of-way for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, or
both, with full or partial control of access and usually located within a
park or a ribbon of parklike development. Said parkway may include land area
which is required for stormwater drainage purposes where the drainage improvement
is to include parklike treatment and where pedestrian or vehicular travel
may be permitted.
As set forth in § 62.23(6)(e), Wis. Stats., the street, highway
or parkway systems shown on the Official Map may be shown as extending beyond
the boundaries of the City of Lodi in extraterritorial areas.
No public sewer or other municipal street utility or improvement shall
be constructed in any street, highway or parkway until such street, highway
or parkway is duly placed on the Official Map. For purposes of this section,
a street, highway or parkway shall be considered duly placed on the Official
Map at the time that the governing body accepts such street, highway or parkway.
A certified copy of the Official Map shall be kept in the office of
the City Clerk and shall be available for inspection by any interested person
during regular office hours. The certified copy shall bear on its face a certification
that it is a true copy of the Official Map described in this chapter and shall
show the date of original adoption of this chapter in 1979 and shall be signed
by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk. Thereafter no change to
or addition of a proposed street, proposed highway, proposed parkway, proposed
park or proposed playground on the Official Map shall become effective until
it shall have been indicated by the appropriate convention on the aforesaid
certified copy of the Official Map and a certificate placed thereon or attached
thereto bearing the number or date of adoption of the amendment. The certificate
shall be signed by the Mayor and countersigned by the City Clerk. For purposes
of this section, plats, certified survey maps and property transactions complying
with applicable laws or ordinances do not require certification when being
placed on the Official Map.
Upon adoption of the Official Map, it shall be the duty of the City
Clerk to immediately file with the Columbia and Dane County Registers of Deeds
a certificate showing that the City has established such Official Map.
The placing of any street, highway, parkway, park or playground line
or lines upon the Official Map shall not in and of itself constitute or be
deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street, parkway,
park or playground or the taking or acceptance of any land for such purposes.
The Zoning Administrator shall have authority to enforce the provisions
of this chapter.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which fails to comply with the provisions of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty as provided in Chapter
1, §
1-3 of this Code.