A.
Purpose. In order to promote the public safety, general welfare and
convenience, it is necessary that highway setback lines be established,
and they are hereby established in the Town of Hudson along all public
highways and the intersection of highways with highways and highways
with railroads.
B.
Jurisdiction boundaries. Where a highway is located on a city or
village boundary, this chapter is not intended to be effective on
the side within the city or village; nor on the side within another
town, where the highway is located on a Town boundary.
A.
No new building, sign, or part thereof, shall be placed between the setback lines established by this chapter and the highway, except as provided in § 105-18.
B.
No building structure, sign, or part thereof, except those complying
with the above regulations, which exists within the setback lines
on the effective date of this chapter or any amendment thereto shall
be altered or enlarged or reconstructed within such setback lines
after having been destroyed by fire, storm or other catastrophe to
the extent of 50% or more of its actual current value.
The following kinds of structures and signs may be placed between
the setback line and the highway:
A.
Open fences.
B.
Telephone, telegraph and power transmission poles and lines, and
microwave radio relay structures, together with all appurtenances
thereto that are readily removable as a unit, including public utility
equipment housings or structures, may be constructed within the setback
lines, and additions to and replacements of any such existing poles,
lines and structures may be made, provided the owner files with the
Town Building Inspector/Zoning Administrator an agreement in writing
to the effect that the owner will remove all new construction, additions
and replacements erected after the adoption of this chapter at his
own expense, when necessary for the improvement of the highway.
C.
Underground structures not capable of being used as future foundations
for prohibited structures.
D.
Wells and septic tanks and other similar structures.
E.
Access or service highways constructed according to plans as approved
by the County Highway Department which shall give due consideration
to highway safety and maximum sight distance.
F.
This section shall not be interpreted so as to prohibit the planting and harvesting of field crops, shrubbery or trees; provided, however, that no building or structure, trees or shrubbery shall be so located, maintained or permitted to grow so that the view across the sectors at the intersection, as provided in §§ 105-8 through 105-14, shall be obstructed.
G.
Where buildings are proposed to be erected or moved between buildings
existing at the time of the adoption of this chapter and having setback
lines less than those established by this section, which existing
buildings are located not more than 150 feet apart, the Building Inspector/Zoning
Administrator may issue a permit for such proposed building, provided
that the setback of such building shall not be less than the average
of the setbacks of the nearest adjoining existing buildings on either
side of the location of the proposed building.
H.
Directory signs not over eight square feet in area, and pertaining
to goods and services available at a particular location within five
miles of such sign, and signs placed by the public authorities for
the guidance or warning of traffic, provided that there shall be not
more than two such directory signs relating to a specific building
or use in any one direction along any one highway.
A.
Except as otherwise provided, the distances from center line to the
setback line applicable to the various classifications of highways
shall be as provided by the following subsections of this section,
respectively.
B.
Highway setbacks. For the purpose of determining the distance buildings
and other structures shall be set back from streets and highways,
the highways of the Town of Hudson are divided into the following
classes.
(1)
Class A highways.
(a)
All arterial highways classified as freeways or expressways
are hereby designated as Class A highways.
(b)
The setback from expressways shall be 50 feet from the right-of-way
line. These setbacks are also applicable to all officially mapped
right-of-way for highway locations or where right-of-way has been
purchased for future highway locations. This includes those parts
of Interstate Highway 94, US Highway 12, and Wisconsin State Highway
35 located in the Town of Hudson.
(c)
Prior to the issuance of a permit for any structure on the property
adjoining right-of-way of Class A highways, the Department of Transportation,
Eau Claire District, must be consulted.
(2)
Class B highways.
(a)
All highways classified as primary, standard and minor arterials
and not further classified as a freeway or expressway are hereby designated
as Class B highways. This includes Highway 35 North of I-94.
(b)
The setback from Class B highways shall be 50 feet from the
right-of-way line.
(c)
Prior to issuance of a permit for any structure on property
adjoining right-of-way of Class B highway, the Department of Transportation,
Eau Claire District, must be consulted.
(3)
Class C highways.
(a)
All highways classified as high or low collectors are hereby
designated as Class C highways. This includes county roads and McCutcheon
Road.
(b)
The setback from Class C highways shall be 50 feet from the
right-of-way line.
(c)
Prior to issuance of a permit for any structure on property
adjoining right-of-way of Class C highways, the agency having jurisdiction
over the highway must be consulted (St. Croix County Highway Department).
(4)
Class D highways.
(a)
All highways not included in the aforementioned classifications
are hereby designated as Class D highways. This includes Town roads
not in a subdivision.
(b)
The setback from Class D highways shall be 50 feet from the
right-of-way line.
(c)
Prior to issuance of a permit for any structure on property
adjoining right-of-way of a Class D highway, which structure would
require construction of a new means of access from the Town highway,
the Town Chairman must be consulted.
C.
Vision triangles. In each quadrant of every public street intersection
there shall be a visual clearance triangle bounded by the street center
lines and a line connecting points on them 300 feet from a Class A
or Class B highway intersection and 200 feet from a Class C or Class
D highway intersection.
D.
At highway intersections with transitional widening. At all intersections
of highways with other highways provided with transitional widening
of pavement or surfacing, such transitional widening shall be considered
as additional width, and the setback lines on the side which is widened
shall be increased by an amount equal to the width of the additional
pavement.
E.
At railroad grade crossings. At grade intersection of all highways
with railroads, there shall be vision clear triangles in each sector
of such intersection. Each such vision clearance triangle shall be
established by a supplementary setback line which shall be a straight
line connecting points located on the setback lines along the highway
and the railroad right-of-way lines, and 100 feet back from the intersections
of such highway setback lines and the railroad right-of-way lines.
F.
Access driveways. Access driveways to highways from abutting properties
shall comply with the following requirements:
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Access Driveways
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Minimum Distance of Highway Frontage Between Access Driveways
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Minimum Distance Access Driveways May Be Located to Center Line
of Intersecting Highway
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Examples
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A
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None allowed
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500
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I-94
Highway 35
Highway 13
Divided highways
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B
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500
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500
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Highway 35 North
Nondivided highways
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C
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500
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500
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Collector roads
All county roads
McCutcheon Road
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D
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200
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200
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All Town roads not classified as a collector
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E
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100
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Subdivisions
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F
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Cul-de-sac radius shall follow the St. Croix County standards
which specify eighty-foot radius.
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