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 heavy
traffic to, from or within the Town. 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 Town Board pursuant to § 62.23
of the Wisconsin Statutes.
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.
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, 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.
A street of little or no continuity designed to provide access
to abutting property and leading into collector streets.
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 peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
The width of a parcel of land measured along the front building
line.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Town for approval.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 by successive division within a period
of five years, whether done by the original owner or a successor owner.
The Town of Lowell, Dodge County, Wisconsin.
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.].
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.
