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 Town. 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 Town Board pursuant to § 62.23 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan prepared by the Town, indicating the general locations recommended for the various functional classes of land use, places and structures, and for the general physical development of the Town 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.
DIVISION OF LAND
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.
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.
EXTRATERRITORIAL PLAT APPROVAL JURISDICTION
The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of a fourth-class city or a village and within three miles of all other cities.
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.
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 Town 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 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.
LOT, AREA
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot, excluding streets 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.
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.
MINOR STREET
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access to abutting properties; also referred to as a "local street."
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 Town for approval.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Plan Commission/Town Board for their consideration as to compliance with the Comprehensive Plan and these regulations, along with required supporting data.
PROTECTIVE COVENANTS
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 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.
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 by successive division within a period of five years, whether done by the original owner or a successor owner.
TOWN
The Town of Lowell, Dodge County, Wisconsin.
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 [§ 23.32(1), Wis. Stats.].
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
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 Chapter 227 of the Wisconsin Statutes, including subsequent amendments to those rules.