The terms used in this chapter shall be defined as follows:
ALLEY
A public or private way which provides secondary access to
a lot, block or parcel of land.
AREA DEVELOPMENT PLAN
A map adopted by the Village Board indicating the physical
layout of future streets, alleys, culs-de-sac, drainageways and easements.
BLOCK
A parcel, lot or group of lots existing within well-defined
and fixed boundaries, usually being an area surrounded by streets
or other physical barriers and having an assigned number, letter or
other name through which it may be identified.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE
The distance from the boundaries of a lot or center line
of a street within which structures or buildings shall not be erected.
CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP
A map of a subdivision of land prepared in accordance with
§ 236.34, Wis. Stats.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
The official guide for the physical, social and economic
growth of the Village or its constituent parts, properly enacted or
adopted according to statute, which is now or may hereafter be in
effect.
CONSTRUCTION YEAR
A period of time commencing on February 1 and ending on the
next January 31.
CROSSWALK
A public right-of-way traversing a block for the purpose
of providing pedestrian access.
CUL-DE-SAC
A short minor street having one end open to motor traffic
and the other end terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
DEAD-END STREET
A street having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and
no vehicular turnaround.
DEVELOPMENT
The act of constructing buildings or installing site improvements.
EASEMENT
Any strip of land reserved by the subdivider for public utilities,
drainage, sanitation or other specified uses having limitations, the
title to which shall remain in the property owner, subject to the
right of use designated in the reservation of the servitude.
FINAL PLAT
The map or drawing of a subdivision prepared in compliance with the provisions of Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and any accompanying material as described in §
318-6 of this chapter.
FRONTAGE
The length of the front property line of the lot, lots or
tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway or rural right-of-way.
GRADIENT
The slope of a road, street or other public way specified
as a percentage.
IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage ditch, water main,
roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrianway, planting strip, off-street
parking area or other facility for which the local municipality may
ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
LIMITED ACCESS EXPRESSWAY OR FREEWAY
A trafficway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting
property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access
to or from the same except only at such points and in such manner
as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over
such trafficway.
LOCAL UNIT
Include the county as well as towns, villages and cities.
LOT
A buildable parcel of land represented and identified in
a subdivision, as defined below in this section.
LOT SPLIT
A division of land other than a subdivision.
NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT
A residential living environment where the internal street
system discourages through traffic and where major thoroughfares preferably
bound the neighborhood and provide maximum pedestrian accessibility
to centrally located community buildings, schools and playgrounds.
Local shops to meet daily household needs are grouped together at
accessible points, providing a harmony of design and development.
OFFICIAL MAP
The map of the Village adopted pursuant to the Wisconsin
Statutes, showing streets, highways, parkways, parks and playgrounds
and the exterior lines of planned new streets, highways, parkways,
parks or playgrounds.
OUTLOT
A parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated
on the plat. A remnant parcel of land not to be used for building
purposes.
PLAT
A map of a subdivision.
PRELIMINARY PLAT
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision,
submitted to the Village Board for purposes of preliminary consideration.
REPLAT
The changing of the boundaries of a recorded subdivision
plat or part thereof.
REVERSE FRONTAGE LOTS
Corner lots with no provision for extra width to permit side
yard to be the same as the front yard on that side.
RIGHT-OF-WAY
A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied for a
special use. Rights-of-way intended for streets, crosswalks, water
mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains or any other use involving maintenance
by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of
the plat on which such right-of-way is established. The usage of the
term "right-of-way" for land platting purposes shall mean that every
right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is to
be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way
and not be included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or
parcels.
ROADWAY
The surface portion of the street available for vehicular
traffic.
SERVICE DRIVE
An approved public street generally paralleling and contiguous
to a main traveled way, primarily designed to promote safety by eliminating
ingress and egress to the right-of-way and providing safe and orderly
points of access at fairly uniformly spaced intervals.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, INDIVIDUAL
A septic tank seepage tile sewerage disposal system or any
other sewerage treatment device approved by the Building Inspector
as being in accordance with the rules of the Department of Natural
Resources and servicing only one building site.
SEWERED AREA
An area in the Village which, in the opinion of the Village
Board, may be readily and feasibly served by sewer and water extensions
to existing sewer and water systems.
SIDEWALK
That portion of a street or crosswalk way, paved or otherwise
surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
STREET
Includes all accessways in common use, such as streets, roads,
lanes, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways, viaducts,
circles, courts and culs-de-sac and includes all of the land lying
between the rights-of-way lines as delineated on a plat showing such
streets whether improved or unimproved, and whether dedicated for
public use or held in trust under the terms of a reservation, but
shall not include those accessways such as easements and rights-of-way
intended solely for limited utility purposes, such as for electric
power lines, gas lines, telephone lines, water lines or drainage and
sanitary sewers.
STREET, ARTERIAL
A major, high capacity street designed to carry large volumes
of traffic between various areas of the Village.
STREET, COLLECTOR
A street which carries traffic from minor streets to the
system of major streets and highways, including the principal entrance
streets of a residential development and the principal circulating
streets within such a development.
STREET, HALF
A street bordering one or more property lines of a tract
of land in which the subdivider has allocated a part of the ultimate
right-of-way width.
STREET, MINOR OR LOCAL
A street of limited continuity used primarily for access
to abutting properties and local needs of a neighborhood.
SUBDIVIDER
A person commencing proceedings under the regulations of
this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself
or others.
SUBDIVISION
Any division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owner
thereof or his agent for the purpose of sale or building development
where:
A.
The act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites of five acres each or less in area; or
B.
Five or more parcels or building sites of five acres each or
less in area are created by successive divisions within a period of
five years.
SURVEYOR
A land surveyor duly licensed in the state.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
THOROUGHFARE
A street with a high degree of continuity, including collector
streets, major arterial streets and limited access highways.
It shall be unlawful to build upon, divide, convey, record or
place monuments on any land in violation of this chapter or the Wisconsin
Statutes; and no person shall be issued a building permit by the Village
authorizing the building on, or improvement of, any subdivision, minor
land division or replat within the jurisdiction of this chapter not
of record as of the effective date of this chapter until the provisions
and requirements of this chapter have been fully met. The Village
may institute appropriate action or proceedings to enjoin violations
of this chapter or the applicable Wisconsin Statutes.