[2-28-2022 by Ord. No.
08-2022]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
AGENCY OR AUTHORITY, APPROVING
Each 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.
AGENCY, ADVISORY
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 PLANNING
The agency created by the County Board and authorized by
statute to plan land use and to review subdivision plats and certified
survey maps.
AGENCY, OBJECTING
An 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).
AGGREIVED
As per §
90-620.50, Terms beginning with A.
[Added 9-25-2023 by Ord. No. 19-2023]
ALLEY
A public way providing secondary access to abutting properties.
BLOCK
An 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.
BUFFER
An area separating land uses and may consist of open areas,
existing natural vegetation, or new landscaping, such as trees, shrubs,
and berms.
BUILDING
Any structure having a roof supported by columns or walls.
BUILDING LINE
A 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 CHECK
A 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 MAP
A 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.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
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.
CONCEPTUAL PLAN
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.
CONDOMINIUM
A 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.
CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION
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 INSTRUMENT
Recorded 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 UNIT
A 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 EASEMENT
The 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.
COVENANT
A restriction on the use of land, usually set forth in the
deed.
CROSS ACCESS
A 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.
CSM
Certified survey map.
DATUM
A system that serves as the basis for land survey measurements
and calculations.
DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
An 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 CORRIDOR
Those 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, PRIMARY
A 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, SECONDARY
A 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 JURISDICTION
The 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.
FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency.
FLOODPLAINS
Those 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.
FRONTAGE
The total dimension of a lot abutting a public street measured
along the street line.
GREEN DEVELOPMENT
The 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 INFRASTRUCTURE
Incorporating 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.
HEDGEROW
A row of shrubs or trees planted for enclosure or separation
of fields.
HIGH GROUNDWATER ELEVATION
The 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' ASSOCIATION
An 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 AREA
An 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 DIVISION
A 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.
LANDSCAPING
Living 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 CREDIT
An 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.
LOT
A 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, CORNER
A 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 FRONTAGE
A 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, FLAG
A 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, INTERIOR
A 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
(b)
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
(c)
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.
(d)
Minor land divisions require review and approval of a Certified
Survey Map by the Village.
MULTIFAMILY RESIDENTIAL (DWELLING) DEVELOPMENT
As 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.
NAVIGABLE WATER
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 MAP
A 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.
OPEN SPACE
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, COMMON
Privately 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, PUBLIC
Land 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 ELEVATIONS
The 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.
OUTLOT
A 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.
PARCEL
A single piece of land separately owned, either publicly
or privately, and capable of being conveyed separately.
PLAT, CONDOMINIUM
A 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."
PLAT, FINAL
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.
PLAT, PRELIMINARY
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, SUBDIVISION
A 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.
POWTS
Private onsite wastewater treatment system.
PRAIRIES
Open, generally treeless areas that are dominated by native
grasses, as delineated and mapped by the SEWRPC.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
Any 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 WAY
Any public street, highway, bicycle or pedestrian/recreation
way, drainageway, or part thereof.
PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR
A 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 WAY
For 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 FEATURES
A 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."
REPLAT
The 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.
RESERVE STRIP
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.
RESILIENCY
The ability to withstand or recover from social, economic,
and environmental crises or disasters.
SHORELANDS
Those 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.
SOIL
The naturally occurring pedogenically developed and undeveloped
regolith overlying bedrock.
SOIL HORIZON
A 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 UNIT
Soil 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 SITU
Soil 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, CONNECTING
A 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).
STREET, ARTERIAL
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, COLLECTOR
A 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-SAC
A local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate
turnaround for vehicular traffic.
STREET, FRONTAGE
A 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 ACCESS
A 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, COMPLETE
Roadways 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.
SUBDIVIDER
Any 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.
SUBDIVISION
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
(b)
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.
(c)
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 BOND
A bond guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation
through forfeiture of the bond if said contract or obligation is unfulfilled
by the subdivider.
SUSTAINABILITY
The capacity to meet the needs of the present generation
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their
own needs.
UNIT
See "condominium unit."
WETLAND
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.
WISCONSIN ADMINISTRATIVE CODE
Regulations, 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 STATUTES
The 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.
WOODLANDS
Upland 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.