[2-28-2022 by Ord. No. 08-2022]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
AGENCY OR AUTHORITY, APPROVINGEach governmental body having authority to approve or reject a preliminary or final plat or certified survey map. Approving authorities are set forth in §
236.10 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
Any agency, other than an objecting agency, to which a plat or certified survey map may be submitted for review and comment. An advisory agency may give advice to the Village and suggest that certain changes be made to the plat or certified map, or it may suggest that a plat or certified survey map be approved or denied. Suggestions made by an advisory agency are not binding on the Village Board or Plan Commission. Examples of advisory agencies include the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC), school districts, and local utility companies.
AGENCY, COUNTY PLANNINGThe agency created by the County Board and authorized by statute to plan land use and to review subdivision plats and certified survey maps.
AGENCY, OBJECTINGAn agency empowered to object to a subdivision plat pursuant to Chapter
236 of the Wisconsin Statutes. The Village may not approve any plat upon which an objection has been certified until the objection has been satisfied. The objecting agencies include the Wisconsin Department of Administration, the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services if the land to be subdivided will be served by POWTS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation or the County Highway Department if land to be subdivided abuts, respectively, a state or county trunk highway or connecting highway or street, and the County Planning Agency. (Note: Only if the plat is located in a village or city and the county has adopted a policy requiring submission of a plat to the county for review. The county is an approving agency for subdivisions located in a town).
A public way providing secondary access to abutting properties.
BLOCKAn area of land bounded by streets, or a combination of streets, public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, bulkhead lines, shorelines of waterways, and city, village, or town boundaries.
BUFFERAn area separating land uses and may consist of open areas, existing natural vegetation, or new landscaping, such as trees, shrubs, and berms.
BUILDINGAny structure having a roof supported by columns or walls.
BUILDING LINEA line generally parallel to a lot line and at a specified minimum distance from the lot line to comply with the building setback requirements of the Village Zoning Ordinance and the requirements of this Ordinance.
CERTIFIED CHECKA form of check in which a bank verifies that sufficient funds exist in an account to cover the check, and the bank certifies accordingly, at the time the check is written. The funds are then held in the bank's internal account until the check is cashed or returned by the payee. Said check shall have sufficient funds, and its liquidity is similar to cash, absent failure of the bank.
CERTIFIED SURVEY MAPA map prepared in accordance with §
236.34 of the Wisconsin Statutes and this Ordinance for the purpose of creating and recording a minor land division as defined by this Ordinance; or used to document, for recording purposes, survey and dedication data relating to single parcels. Certified survey maps are also referred to as minor land divisions.
The extensively developed plan adopted by the Village Board pursuant to §
66.1001 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Components of a comprehensive plan may include, but are not limited to, a land use, transportation system, park and open space, sanitary sewer, public water supply, and stormwater management system elements, and neighborhood unit development plans. Devices for the implementation of such plans include zoning, official mapping, land division control, and capital improvement programs.
A plan of a proposed land division that is submitted for informal review and shows the proposed general layout of streets, lots, and other features in relation to existing conditions.
CONDOMINIUMA form of ownership combining individual unit ownership with shared use and ownership of common property or facilities, established in accordance with Chapter
703 of the Wisconsin Statutes. Common areas and facilities are owned by all members of the condominium association on a proportional, undivided basis. A condominium is a legal form of ownership, and not a specific building type or style.
An association, whose members consist of owners of units in a condominium, which administers and maintains the common property and common elements of a condominium. The association is responsible for maintaining the common facilities and grounds and delivering services, but does not own the common facilities.
CONDOMINIUM INSTRUMENTRecorded documents relating the creation and subsequent modification of the condominium, including the declaration, plats, and plans of a condominium together with attached exhibits or schedules and addendums or amendments.
CONDOMINIUM UNITA part of a condominium intended for any type of independent use, including one or more cubicles of air at one or more levels of space or one or more rooms or enclosed spaces located on one or more floors (or parts thereof) in a building. A unit may include two or more noncontiguous areas.
CONSERVATION EASEMENTThe grant of a property right or interest from the property owner to another person, agency, unit of government, or other organization stipulating that the described land shall remain in its natural, scenic, open, or wooded state, precluding future or additional development.
COVENANTA restriction on the use of land, usually set forth in the deed.
CROSS ACCESSA shared access drive or traffic aisle between adjoining or adjacent properties with compatible land uses that usually allows access between adjacent parking areas located on different lots without traveling on adjacent public streets or highways.
DATUMA system that serves as the basis for land survey measurements and calculations.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTAn agreement entered into by and between the Village and a subdivider whereby the Village and subdivider agree as to the design, construction, and installation of required public improvements; the payment for such public improvements; dedication of land; and other matters related to the requirements of this Ordinance. The development agreement shall not come into effect unless and until a letter of credit or other appropriate surety has been provided to the Village by the subdivider.
ENVIRONMENTAL CORRIDORThose lands containing concentrations of scenic, recreational, and other natural resources as identified and delineated by SEWRPC. These natural resources and resource-related elements include the following: 1) lakes, rivers, and streams, and their associated riparian buffers and floodplains; 2) wetlands; 3) forests and woodlands; 4) prairies; 5) wildlife habitat areas; 6) rugged terrain and high-relief topography; 7) wet, poorly-drained, and organic soils; 8) existing park and open space sites; 9) potential parks and open space sites; 10) historic sites; 11) significant scenic areas and viewpoints; and 12) natural areas and critical species habitat sites. Also see "environmental corridor, primary," "environmental corridor, secondary" and "isolated natural resource area."
ENVIRONMENTAL CORRIDOR, PRIMARYA concentration of significant natural resources at least 400 acres in area, at least two miles in length, and at least 200 feet in width, as delineated and mapped by SEWRPC.
ENVIRONMENTAL CORRIDOR, SECONDARYA concentration of significant natural resources at least 100 acres in area and at least one mile in length. Where such corridors serve to link primary environmental corridors, no minimum area or length criteria apply. Secondary environmental corridors are delineated and mapped by SEWRPC.
EXTRATERRITORIAL PLAT AND CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP (LAND DIVISION) APPROVAL JURISDICTIONThe unincorporated area within 1.5 miles of a fourth-class city or village and within three miles of all other cities. Where such jurisdictions overlap, the jurisdiction over the overlapping area is divided on a line, all points of which are equidistant from the boundaries of each municipality, so that not more than one municipality exercises extraterritorial authority over any area.
FEMAThe Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FLOODPLAINSThose lands, including the floodplains, floodways, and channels, subject to inundation by the one-percent-annual-probability flood (also referred to as a 100-year recurrence interval flood) or, where such data are not available, the maximum flood of record.
FRONTAGEThe total dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured along the street line.
GREEN DEVELOPMENTThe integration of techniques that help conserve natural resources by arranging land uses and site features (i.e., lots, buildings, and infrastructure) to include or be close to services, employment centers and alternative transportation systems (i.e., public transit, sidewalks, and bicycle facilities); protecting existing natural resources; providing opportunities to practicably harness renewable energy sources, where possible (i.e., south-oriented buildings capturing passive solar radiation); utilizing sun, wind, and/or earth for natural lighting, ventilation, heating, cooling, and other purposes (i.e., solar panels, wind turbines, wind catchers/ventilation shafts, and geothermal systems); using green infrastructure; incorporating local, reused, recycled, recyclable, or eco-friendly construction materials and energy-efficient appliances; and including other energy and water conservation and efficiency measures into site and building designs. The term is also sometimes referred to as "low-impact development (LID)."
GREEN INFRASTRUCTUREIncorporating stormwater management systems (sometimes called "green stormwater infrastructure") that mimic nature to improve water quality and recharge groundwater by storing, infiltrating, or evapotranspiring stormwater through the use of bioswales, infiltration trenches, bioretention basins with underdrains, curb openings into tree wells, rain gardens and barrels or cisterns, rooftop and wall or "vertical" gardens, porous or permeable pavements with restricted salt application for winter maintenance or the application of alternative winter maintenance techniques, drought-tolerant landscaping materials and techniques, and other energy and water conservation and efficiency measures into site and building designs. It also means to include or use natural hydrologic features of an ecological system such as vegetation (wetlands and woodlands), soil, waterways and other natural processes often located in environmental corridors that provide habitat, flood protection, and cleaner air and water.
HEDGEROWA row of shrubs or trees planted for enclosure or separation of fields.
HIGH GROUNDWATER ELEVATIONThe highest elevation to which subsurface water rises. This may be evidenced by the actual presence of water during wet periods of the year, or by soil mottling during drier periods. Mottling is a mixture or variation of soil colors. In soils with restricted internal drainage, gray, yellow, red, and brown colors are intermingled giving a multicolored effect.
HOMEOWNERS' ASSOCIATIONAn association combining individual home ownership with shared use, ownership, maintenance, and responsibility for common property or facilities, including private open space, within a land division.
ISOLATED NATURAL RESOURCE AREAAn area containing significant remnant natural resources at least five acres in area and at least 200 feet in width, as delineated and mapped by SEWRPC.
LAND DIVISIONA generic term that includes both subdivisions and minor land divisions, as those terms are defined in this section. A land division can be legally created only by means of a subdivision plat or certified survey map, and not a condominium plat.
LANDSCAPINGLiving noninvasive plant material, such as grass, groundcover, flowers, shrubs, vines, hedges, and trees; nonliving durable material such as rocks, pebbles, sand, mulch, wood chips or bark; and structures such as walls and fences.
LETTER OF CREDITAn irrevocable written agreement guaranteeing payment for improvements, entered into by a bank, savings and loan, or other financial institution authorized to do business in the State of Wisconsin and which has a financial standing acceptable to the Village, which secures a subdivider's obligation to pay the cost of designing, constructing, and installing required public improvements and certain other obligations in connection with an approved land division or condominium.
LOTA parcel of land having frontage on a public street, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the minimum lot width, lot frontage, lot area, setback, yard, parking, and other requirements of the Village Zoning Ordinance.
LOT, CORNERA lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle of 135° or less. (See Illustration 1.)
LOT, DOUBLE OR REVERSE FRONTAGEA lot, other than a corner lot, with frontage on more than one street. Such lots shall normally be deemed to have two front yards and two side yards and no rear yard. (See Illustration 1.)
LOT, FLAGA lot not fronting on or abutting a public street and where access to the public street system is by a narrow strip of land (sometimes called a "neck," "narrow leg," or "flag staff), easement, or private right-of-way. Flag lots generally are not considered to conform to sound planning principles. (See Illustration 1.)
LOT, INTERIORA lot with frontage on one street that is bounded by adjacent lots along each side and usually a lot behind it fronting on a different street. (See Illustration 1.)
MINOR LAND DIVISION (CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP)A minor land division is any division of land that:
(a) Creates more than one, but less than five, parcels or building sites, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, any one of which is five acres or less in area, by a division or by successive divisions of any part of the original parcel within a period of five years; or
Divides a block, lot, or outlot within a recorded subdivision plat into more than one, but less than five, parcels or building sites, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, without changing the exterior boundaries of said plat or the exterior boundaries of blocks within the plat, and the division does not result in a subdivision; or
Creates not more than 100 parcels, lots, or outlots, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, on land that is zoned for commercial, industrial, multifamily residential, or mixed-use development.
Minor land divisions require review and approval of a Certified Survey Map by the Village.
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL (DWELLING) DEVELOPMENTAs specified in §
101.971 of the Wisconsin Statutes, a development containing apartment buildings, rowhouses, town houses, condominiums, or modular homes [defined in § 101.71(6) of the Statutes and does not mean mobile or manufactured homes defined in § 101.91(2) and (10)], that do not exceed 60 feet in height or six stories and that consist of three or more attached dwelling units in which the initial construction began on or after January 1, 1993. Such developments do not include facilities licensed under Chapter
50 of the Statutes, such as adult family homes, community-based residential facilities, nursing homes, and residential care apartment complexes.
Lake Michigan, all natural inland lakes within Wisconsin, and all rivers, streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages, and other waters within the territorial limits of Wisconsin that are navigable under the laws of this state. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declared navigable all bodies of water with a bed differentiated from adjacent uplands and with levels of flow sufficient to support navigation by a recreational craft of the shallowest draft on an annually recurring basis. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is responsible for determining if a water body or watercourse is navigable.
OFFICIAL MAPA document prepared and adopted pursuant to §
62.23(6) of the Wisconsin Statutes, which shows the location of existing and planned street rights-of-way, parkways, parks, playgrounds, railway rights-of-way, waterways, and public transit facilities.
Any site, parcel, lot, area, or outlot of land or water that has been designated, dedicated, reserved, or restricted from further development. Open space may be privately or publicly owned, but shall not be part of individual residential lots. Open space shall be substantially free of structures, but may be used for landscaping and contain recreational facilities approved by the Village. Open space may include, but is not limited to, floodplains, wetlands, woodlands, steep slopes, prairie remnants, natural areas, critical species habitat sites, and other natural resource features, including those within environmental corridors and isolated natural resource areas.
OPEN SPACE, COMMONPrivately owned land within a land division or condominium that has been restricted in perpetuity from further development and is set aside for the use and enjoyment by residents of the land division or condominium. Common open space shall be substantially free of structures, but may be used for landscaping and contain recreational facilities approved by the Village.
OPEN SPACE, PUBLICLand within a land division or condominium that has been dedicated to the public for recreational or conservation purposes. Open space lands shall be substantially free of structures, but may contain recreational facilities approved by the Village.
ORDINARY HIGH WATER MARK (OHWM) OR ELEVATIONSThe average annual high water level of a pond, stream, lake, flowage, or wetland referred to an established datum plane or, where such elevation is not available, the point or elevation on the bank or shore up to which the presence and action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a distinctive mark such as by erosion, destruction, or prevention of terrestrial vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation, or other easily recognized topographic, geologic, or vegetative characteristic.
OUTLOTA parcel of land, other than a buildable lot or block, so designated on the plat, which is used to convey or reserve parcels of land. Outlots may be created to restrict a lot that is unbuildable due to high groundwater, steep slopes, or other physical constraints, or to create common open space that may accommodate certain recreational amenities and stormwater management facilities. Outlots may also be parcels of land intended to be redivided into lots or combined with lots or outlots in adjacent land divisions in the future for the purpose of creating buildable lots. An outlot may be further created if a lot fails to meet requirements for a POWTS, but which may be buildable if public sewer is extended to the lot or land division.
(a) Section
236.13(6) of the Wisconsin Statutes prohibits using an outlot as a building site unless it complies with all the requirements imposed for buildable lots. The Village will generally require that any restrictions related to an outlot be included on the face of the plat.
PARCELA single piece of land separately owned, either publicly or privately, and capable of being conveyed separately.
PLAT, CONDOMINIUMA map (not a certified survey map) prepared in accordance with Chapter
703 of the Wisconsin Statutes and this Ordinance for the purpose of creating and recording condominium units as defined herein. A "condominium plat" may be used to create condominium units along with specifying a condominium owner's proportional share or ownership of common facilities and/or grounds and shall not be used to create lots or parcels. The creation of lots or parcels requires a "certified survey map" or "subdivision plat."
A map prepared in accordance with the requirements of Chapter
236 of the Wisconsin Statutes and this Ordinance for the purpose of creating a subdivision.
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration. A preliminary plat precisely describes the location and exterior boundaries of the parcel proposed to be divided, and shows the approximate location of lots, streets, and other improvements.
PLAT, SUBDIVISIONA map prepared in accordance with Chapter
236 of the Wisconsin Statutes and this Ordinance for the purpose of creating and recording a subdivision as defined by this Ordinance.
Private onsite wastewater treatment system.
PRAIRIESOpen, generally treeless areas that are dominated by native grasses, as delineated and mapped by the SEWRPC.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTAny sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, water main, street, park, sidewalk, bicycle, or pedestrian/recreation way, or other facility for which the Village may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
PUBLIC WAYAny public street, highway, bicycle or pedestrian/recreation way, drainageway, or part thereof.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTORA professional engineer who is a full time employee of the Village, or a consulting engineer who provides resident staff services to the Village, and who is duly appointed by the Village Board to the position.
RECREATION PATH OR WAYFor the purpose of this Ordinance, a multi-use path that provides opportunities for hiking/pedestrians and may accommodate bicycling, rollerblading, skateboarding, and other recreational uses.
REDOXIMORPHIC FEATURESA feature formed in the soil matrix by the process of reduction, translocation, and oxidation of iron and manganese compounds in seasonally saturated soil that appears "mottled."
REPLATThe process of changing, or the plat or map which changes, the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat, certified survey map, or a part thereof. The division of a large block, lot, or outlot within a recorded subdivision plat or certified survey map without changing the exterior boundaries of said block, lot, or outlot is not a replat. Changes to condominium plats, such as merging or removal of condominium units, must meet the requirements of Chapter
703 of the Wisconsin Statutes, and condominium plats may not be used nor are considered a replat of a subdivision, certified survey map, or part thereof.
Any land that would prohibit or interfere with the orderly extension of streets, bicycle or pedestrian ways, sanitary sewer, water mains, storm water facilities, or other utilities or improvements between two abutting properties.
RESILIENCYThe ability to withstand or recover from social, economic, and environmental crises or disasters.
SHORELANDSThose lands lying within the following distances: 1,000 feet from the ordinary high water elevation or mark of a navigable lake, pond, or flowages; or 300 feet from the ordinary high water elevation or mark of a navigable stream, or to the landward edge of the floodplain, whichever distance is greater.
SOILThe naturally occurring pedogenically developed and undeveloped regolith overlying bedrock.
SOIL HORIZONA layer of soil material approximately parallel to the land surface and differing from adjacent genetically related layers in physical, chemical, or biologic characteristics.
SOIL HORIZON, "A"A layer of mineral soil or soil material that formed at the surface or below an "O" horizon and 1) are characterized by an accumulation of humified organic matter intimately mixed with the mineral fraction and not dominated by properties characteristic of "E" or "B" horizons or 2) have properties resulting from cultivation, pasturing, or similar kinds of disturbance.
SOIL HORIZON, "A+4"A layer of mineral soil or soil material located typically at ground surface and containing four inches of soil below the "A" horizon that is free of any redoximorphic soil features indicative of soil saturation and consist of soil diagnostic characteristics indicative of "B", "C", or "E" horizons. [For purposes of this Ordinance and the county sanitary code, this is the soil criteria used for all lands being subdivided.]
SOIL HORIZON, "B"A layer formed below an A, E, or O horizon and is dominated by an obliteration of all or much of the original rock structure and by 1) illuvial concentration of silicate clay, iron, aluminum, humus, carbonates, gypsum, or silica, alone or in combination thereof; 2) evidence of removal of carbonates; 3) residual concentration of sesquioxides; 4) coatings of sesquioxides that make the horizon conspicuously lower in value, higher in chroma, or redder in hue than overlying and underlying horizons without apparent illuviation of iron; 5) alteration that forms silicate clay or liberates oxides or both and that forms granular, blocky, or prismatic structure if volume changes accompany changes in moisture content; or 6) any combination of these.
SOIL HORIZON, "C"A layer, excluding hard bedrock, that is little affected by pedogenic processes and lack properties of O, A, E, or B horizons. Most C horizons are mineral layers, but limnic layers, whether organic or inorganic, are included. The material of C layers may be either like or unlike that from which the solum presumably formed.
SOIL HORIZON, "E"A mineral horizon in which the main feature is loss of silicate clay, iron, aluminum, or some combination thereof, leaving a concentration of sand and silt particles of quartz or other resistant minerals.
SOIL HORIZON, "O"A layer dominated by organic material, except limnic layers that are organic. Some layers are saturated with water for long periods or were once saturated but are now artificially drained and others have never been saturated.
SOIL MAPPING UNITSoil type, slope, and erosion factor boundaries as shown on the operational soil survey maps prepared by the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
SOIL, IN SITUSoil that is naturally formed or deposited in its present location or position and includes soil material that has been plowed using normal tillage implements and depositional material resulting from erosion or flooding.
STREET OR HIGHWAY, CONNECTINGA marked route, not a state trunk highway per se, of the State trunk highway system over certain streets and highways in municipalities that the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has designated as a "connecting highway" (see §
86.32 of the Wisconsin Statutes).
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for movement of through traffic, whose function is to convey traffic between municipalities and activity centers. Arterial streets include freeways and expressways as well as standard arterial streets and highways. Certain arterial streets also provide appropriate access to abutting properties.
STREET, COLLECTORA street used, or intended to be used, to carry traffic from land access streets to the system of arterial streets, including the principal entrance streets to residential developments and/or activity or employment centers. This street also provides access to adjacent properties.
STREET, CUL-DE-SACA local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate turnaround for vehicular traffic.
STREET, FRONTAGEA land access street auxiliary to and located parallel or adjacent to an arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting development.
STREET, LAND ACCESSA street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access to abutting properties. Such streets may be called minor streets or minor land-access streets.
STREETS, COMPLETERoadways designed and operated to enable safe, convenient, and comfortable access and travel for users of all ages and abilities crossing and traveling by various modes, such as walking, bicycling, transit, or automobile, within the roadway right-of-way.
SUBDIVIDERAny person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor land division, or replat, or any person who creates a condominium under Chapter
703 of the Wisconsin Statutes.
A division of a lot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner thereof or the owner's agent for the purpose of sale, transfer of ownership, or building development, where:
(a) The act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, any one of which is five acres or less in area, by a division or by successive divisions of any part of the original property within a period of five years; or
The act of division creates six or more parcels or building sites, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, of any size by successive divisions of any part of the original property within a period of five years.
In accordance with §
236.34(1)(ar) of the Wisconsin Statutes, the word "subdivision" does not include a division of land that creates not more than 100 parcels, lots, or outlots, inclusive of the original remnant parcel, on land that is zoned for commercial, industrial, multifamily residential, or mixed-use development. (Note: The Statutes do not include a maximum limit on the number of parcels that may be created using the above option; each local government should determine if it wants to include this option and, if so, whether to specify a maximum number of parcels that may be created using a CSM.)
SURETY BONDA bond guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation through forfeiture of the bond if said contract or obligation is unfulfilled by the subdivider.
SUSTAINABILITYThe capacity to meet the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
UNITSee "condominium unit."
WETLANDAn 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.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODERegulations, commonly referred to as rules, written and promulgated by State agencies to supplement, implement, or interpret laws enacted by the Wisconsin Legislature. The rules are referred to based on the agency that is responsible for administering the rules. For example, "SPS" refers to rules administered by the Department of Safety and Professional Services, "NR" refers to rules administered by the Department of Natural Resources, and "Trans" refers to rules administered by the Department of Transportation. Portions of the Administrative Code that particularly affect planning include SPS 383 (requirements for private onsite wastewater treatment systems); NR 115 (requirements for shoreland areas and shoreland-wetlands in towns and counties); NR 116 (floodplain requirements); NR 117 (requirements for shoreland-wetlands in cities and villages); and Trans 233 (requirements for subdivisions abutting State highways). The Wisconsin Administrative Code is available on the Legislature's web page at https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/code.
WISCONSIN STATUTESThe body of law enacted by the Wisconsin State Legislature. Portions of the Wisconsin Statutes that particularly affect planning include Chapter 236 (land division requirements); Chapter 703 (condominium plat requirements); § 62.23 (zoning and master planning requirements for cities and villages, and towns that have adopted village powers); § 66.1001 (comprehensive planning requirements); and Chapter 59 (zoning requirements for counties). The Wisconsin Statutes are available on the Legislature's web page at https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/statutes.
WOODLANDSUpland areas at least one acre in size having 17 or more deciduous trees per acre each measuring at least four inches in diameter at breast height and having at least 50% canopy coverage. In addition, coniferous tree plantations and reforestation projects are also classified as woodlands. Woodlands do not include lowland wooded areas classified as wetlands, such as tamarack swamps. Woodlands are delineated and mapped by SEWRPC.
