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 fast
or 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 PLAN
A Comprehensive Plan, also called a master plan, prepared
by the Village in 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
an 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.
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, curb and gutter,
water main, roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrian
way, 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. Also referred
to as a "minor street."
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, and land under navigable bodies of water.
LOT CORNER
A lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.
LOT, LINES
The peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
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, 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.
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 PARKWAY
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 Plan Commission/Village
Board for their consideration as to compliance with the Comprehensive
Plan Zoning Code 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 minor land division or 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 or certified survey map 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
(certified survey map) 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 of 1 1/2
acres or less 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 [§ 23.32(1),
Wis. Stats.]
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 at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]