The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:
ALLEY
A public right-of-way which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
ARTERIAL STREET
A street which provides for the movement of relatively heavy
traffic to, from or within the Village. It has a secondary function
of providing access to abutting land.
BLOCK
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.
COLLECTOR STREET
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.
COMMISSION
The Plan Commission created by the Village Board pursuant
to § 62.23 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A Comprehensive 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.
CUL-DE-SAC
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.
EASEMENT
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.
FINAL PLAT
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. Said plat must
conform to all state laws.
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.
IMPROVEMENT, PUBLIC
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, 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.
LOCAL STREET
A street of little or no continuity designed to provide access
to abutting property and leading into collector streets.
LOT
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.
LOT AREA
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot
excluding streets, easements and land under navigable bodies of water.
LOT CORNER
A lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.
LOT, REVERSED CORNER
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.
LOT THROUGH
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.
LOT LINES
The peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
LOT WIDTH
The width of a parcel of land measured along the front building
line.
MAJOR THOROUGHFARE
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.
MARGINAL ACCESS STREET
A street which is parallel to and adjacent to major thoroughfares
and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from
traffic on the arterial street.
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 creation of not more than four parcels or building sites.
OWNER
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.
PEDESTRIAN PATHWAY
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.
PLAT
The map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's
plat of subdivision is presented to the Village for approval.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the
proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Village
Board for their consideration as to compliance with the Comprehensive
Development Plan and these regulations along with required supporting
data.
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS
Contracts entered into between private parties which constitute
a restriction on the use of all private property within a subdivision
for the benefit of the property owners and to provide mutual protection
against undesirable aspects of development which would tend to impair
stability of values.
REPLAT
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 without changing exterior boundaries of said block, lot or outlot
is not a replat.
SHORELANDS
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.
SUBDIVIDER
Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
or replat.
SUBDIVISION
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.
WETLANDS
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.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority
in Wisconsin, published as directed by § 35.93 and Chapter
227 of the Wisconsin Statutes, including subsequent amendments to
those rules.
[Amended 1-4-2016 by Ord.
No. 1-2016; 5-4-2017 by Ord. No. 4-2017]
When it is proposed to combine or divide land or building sites,
any one of which is less than five acres, or when it is proposed to
divide a block, combine a lot or outlot into not more than four parcels
or building sites within a recorded subdivision plat without changing
the exterior boundaries of the block, lot or outlot, the subdivider
shall combine or subdivide by use of a certified survey map, prepared
in accordance with § 236.34, Wis. Stats.
A. Submission. The subdivider may consult with the Village Board regarding
the requirements for minor subdivisional certified surveys before
submission of the final map. Following consultation, a copy of the
final map in the form of a certified survey map shall be submitted
to the Village.
B. Proposed layout. The Village Board may require a proposed subdivision
layout of all or part of the contiguously owned land even though division
is not planned at the time.
C. Certified survey map. The following procedures shall be followed
with certified surveys:
(1) Pursuant to this section, the subdivider shall cause a certified survey map to be prepared in accordance with §
512-9 of this chapter and submit 10 copies to the Village Clerk-Treasurer. The map shall be reviewed by the Village Board for conformance with this chapter and all ordinances, rules, regulations, Comprehensive Plans and Comprehensive Plan components which affect it. The Village Board shall approve, approve conditionally or reject such map within 90 days from the date of filing of the map unless the time is extended by agreement with the subdivider. If the map is rejected, the reason shall be stated in the minutes of the meeting and a written statement forwarded to the subdivider.
(2) The subdivider shall record the map with the applicable county register
of deeds within six months after the date of the last approval of
the map by the Village Board and any other approving agencies and
within 24 months after the first approval of the map. Failure to do
so shall necessitate reapproval of the map by the Village Board.
D. Requirements. To the extent reasonably practicable, the certified
survey/minor subdivision plat shall comply with the provisions of
this chapter relating to general requirements, design standards and
required improvements. Conveyance by metes and bounds shall be prohibited
where the lot(s) involved is less than 1 1/2 acres or 300 feet
in width.