A.
Compliance with statutes. In laying out a subdivision, the owner shall conform to the provisions of Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and all applicable Town regulations. In all cases where the requirements of this chapter are different from the requirements of Ch. 236, the more restrictive provision shall apply.
B.
Dedication. The subdivider shall dedicate land and improve streets as provided in this chapter and § 490-22. Streets shall be located with due regard for topographical conditions, natural features, existing and proposed streets, utilities and land uses and public convenience and safety. Streets shall conform to Official Maps adopted by the Town Board. The subdivision, certified survey parcel or land division shall be so designed as to provide each lot with satisfactory access to a public street or road.
C.
Compliance with Comprehensive Plan. The arrangement, character, extent, width, grade and location of all streets shall conform to any Town Comprehensive Plan or Official Map and to this chapter and shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, to reasonable circulation of traffic, to topographical conditions, to runoff of stormwater, to public convenience and safety, and in their appropriate relation to the proposed uses of the land to be served by such streets. The arrangement of streets in new subdivisions shall make provision for the appropriate continuation at the same width of the existing streets in adjoining areas.
D.
Areas not covered by plan. In areas not covered by a Town Comprehensive Plan, or Official Map, the layout of streets shall conform to the plan for the most advantageous development of adjoining areas of the neighborhood. Streets shall be designed and located in relation to existing and officially planned streets, topography and natural terrain, streams and lakes and existing tree growth, public convenience and safety and in their appropriate relation to the proposed use of the land to be served by such streets.
E.
Street classifications. Streets shall be classified as indicated below.
(1)
Arterial streets. Arterial streets shall be arranged to provide through traffic for a heavy volume of vehicles.
(2)
Collector streets. Collector streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready collection of traffic from commercial and residential areas and conveyance of this traffic to the major street and highway system and shall be properly related to special traffic generators such as schools, churches and shopping centers and other concentrations of population and to the major streets into which they feed.
(3)
Minor streets. Minor streets shall be arranged to conform to the topography, to discourage use by through traffic, to permit the design of efficient storm and sanitary sewerage systems and to require the minimum street area necessary to provide safe and convenient access to abutting property.
(4)
Proposed streets. Proposed streets shall extend to the boundary lines of the tract being subdivided unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions or unless, in the opinion of the Town Board, such extension is not necessary or desirable for the coordination of the layout of the subdivision or land division or for the advantageous development of the adjacent tracts.
F.
Reserve strips. Reserve strips shall not be provided on any plat to control access to streets or alleys, except where control of such strips is placed with the Town under conditions approved by the Town Board.
G.
Alleys. Alleys may be provided in commercial and industrial districts for off-street loading and service access, but shall not be approved in residential districts. Dead-end alleys shall not be approved and alleys shall not connect to a major thoroughfare or federal, state or county trunk highway.
H.
Continuation. Streets shall be laid out to provide for possible continuation wherever topographic and other physical conditions permit. Provision shall be made so that all proposed streets shall have a direct connection with, or be continuous and in line with, existing, planned or platted streets with which they are to connect. Proposed streets shall be extended to the boundary lines of the tract to be subdivided, unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions, or unless in the opinion of the Town Board, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission, such extension is not necessary or desirable for the coordination of the layout of the subdivision with existing layout or the most advantageous future development of adjacent tracts. Dead-end streets not over 500 feet in length will be approved when necessitated by the topography.
I.
Minor streets. Minor streets shall be so laid out so as to discourage their use by through traffic.
J.
Number of intersections. The number of intersections of minor streets with major streets shall be reduced to the practical minimum consistent with circulation needs and safety requirements, preferably not more than two. Wherever practicable, the distance between such intersections should not be less than 1,320 feet.
K.
Frontage roads. Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed arterial highway, the Town Board may require a frontage road, nonaccess reservation along the rear of the property contiguous to such highway or such other treatment as may be necessary to ensure safe, efficient traffic flow and adequate protection of residential properties.
L.
Private streets. Private streets shall not be approved nor shall public improvements be approved for any private street; all streets shall be dedicated for public use.
M.
Visibility. Streets shall afford maximum visibility and safety and shall intersect at right angles where practicable. As required by the Town Engineer, sufficient vision clearance triangles shall be provided at intersections.
N.
Tangents. A tangent at least 100 feet long shall be required between reverse curves on arterial and collector streets. Whenever there is a deflection angle of more than 10° in the alignment of a street, a curve shall be introduced with the required radius.
O.
Street grades.
(1)
Unless necessitated by exceptional topography subject to the approval of the Town Board, the maximum center line grade of any street or public way shall not exceed the following:
(2)
Street grades shall be established wherever practicable so as to avoid excessive grading, the promiscuous removal of ground cover and tree growth, and general leveling of the topography.
P.
Radii of curvature. When a continuous street center line deflects at any one point by more than 10°, a circular curve shall be introduced having a radius of curvature on said center line of not less than the following:
Q.
Half streets. Where an existing dedicated or platted half-street is adjacent to the subdivision, the other half-street shall be dedicated by the subdivider. The platting of half-streets should be avoided where possible.
R.
Intersections.
(1)
Property lines at street intersections of major thoroughfares shall be rounded with a radius of 15 feet or of a greater radius where the Town Engineer considers it necessary.
(2)
Streets shall intersect each other at as nearly right angles as topography and other limiting factors of good design permit.
(3)
Number of streets converging at one intersection shall be reduced to a minimum, preferably not more than two.
S.
Street names. New street names shall not duplicate the names of existing streets, but streets that are continuations of others already in existence and named shall bear the names of the existing streets. Street names shall be subject to approval by the Town Board.
T.
Culs-de-sac.
(1)
Culs-de-sac. Cul-de-sac streets designed to have one end permanently closed shall not exceed 500 feet in length. All cul-de-sac streets designed to have one end permanently closed shall terminate in a circular turnaround having a minimum right-of-way radius of 66 feet and a minimum inside curb radius of 40 feet. The use of culs-de-sac should be avoided where possible and are allowed only where specifically permitted by the Town Board.
(2)
Temporary dead-ends or culs-de-sac. All temporary dead-ends shall have a maximum length of 800 feet and a temporary cul-de-sac shall have a minimum right-of-way radius of 66 feet and a minimum inside curb radius of 40 feet.
U.
Limited access highway and railroad right-of-way treatment. Whenever the proposed subdivision contains or is adjacent to a limited access highway, arterial street or railroad right-of-way, the design shall provide the following treatment:
(1)
Subdivision lots. When lots within the proposed subdivision back up on the right-of-way of an existing or proposed limited access highway or a railroad, a planting strip at least 30 feet in depth shall be provided adjacent to the highway or railroad in addition to the normal lot depth. This strip shall be part of the platted lots but shall have the following restriction lettered on the face of the plat: "This strip reserved for the planting of trees and shrubs; the building of structures hereon prohibited."
(2)
Commercial and industrial districts. Commercial and industrial districts shall have provided, on each side of the limited access highway, arterial street or railroad, streets approximately parallel to and at a suitable distance from such highway or railroad for the appropriate use of the land between such streets and highway or railroad, but not less than 150 feet.
(3)
Streets parallel to a limited access highway. Streets parallel to a limited access highway or railroad right-of-way, when intersecting a major street and highway or collector street which crosses said railroad or highway, shall be located at a minimum distance of 250 feet from said highway or railroad right-of-way. Such distance, where desirable and practicable, shall be determined with due consideration of the minimum distance required for the future separation of grades by means of appropriate approach gradients.
(4)
Minor streets. Minor streets immediately adjacent and parallel to railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided, and location of minor streets immediately adjacent to arterial streets and highways and to railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided in residential areas.