Words used in the present tense include the
future; the singular number includes the plural; the plural number
includes the singular number; and the word "shall" is mandatory and
not permissive. For the purpose of these regulations, the following
terms are defined.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A public or private way which provides secondary access to
a lot, block or parcel of land.
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.
Village Board of Wrightstown or any of its designated agencies.
The distance from the boundaries of a lot or center line
of a street within which structures or buildings shall not be erected.
A map of a division of land prepared in accordance with W.S.A.
s. 236.34 which creates four or fewer lots within a period of five
years from the same established parcel or established lot.
An asphalt paved street with curb and gutter that meets the minimum standard of § 205-15.
An asphalt paved street without curb and gutter, but with ditches that meet the minimum standards of § 205-15.
The Brown County Planning Commission.
The Regional Planning Committee.[1]
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 not or may hereafter be in
effect.
A concrete, asphalt or otherwise surfaced walkway located
within a public right-of-way or easement, intended to provide a location
at which pedestrians may safely cross a street, railroad, drainageway
or other such facility deemed unsafe for pedestrian crossing.
The governing body of the County of Brown.
A short minor street having one end open to motor traffic
and the other end terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
A street having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and
no vehicular turnaround.
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership,
corporation, guardian, attorney, trust or any legal entity authorized
by the subdivider for having the responsibility to cause the development
to be completed.
The act of constructing buildings or installing site improvements.
Any strip of land reserved by the subdivider for public utilities,
private 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.
A lot that is on file with the Register of Deeds as of May
2, 1979.
A parcel of land that is on file with the Register of Deeds
as of May 2, 1979.
The length of the front property line of a lot, parcel or
tract of land abutting a public right-of-way.
The slope of a road, street or other public way specified
in percent (%).
Any electric line, telephone line, gas main, cable television
line or any other private facility for which a public agency will
not ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage ditch, water main,
street, sidewalk, crosswalk, planting strip, off-street parking area
or other public facility for which a public agency may ultimately
assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
An area of land, less than or equal to five acres, represented
and identified in a subdivision or certified survey which meets all
requirements for the development of a single building site.
A map of the village showing existing streets, highways,
parkways, parks and playgrounds and the exterior lines of planned
streets, highways, parkways, parks or playgrounds as provided by statute.
Any property not located within a subdivision.
A parcel or lot so designated on the plat which does not
meet all the requirements for a building site.
An area of land greater than five acres represented and identified
in a plat or certified survey which meets all requirements for the
development of a single building site.
A map of a division of land prepared in accordance with W.S.A.
s. 236.34 which creates five or more lots or building sites of five
acres each or less in area or five or more lots or building sites
of five acres each or less in area by successive divisions within
a period of five years.
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision
submitted to the Board for purposes of preliminary consideration.
A roughly drawn map showing the approximate idea how the
land will be divided, submitted to the Board for purposes of preliminary
consultation.
The changing of the boundaries of a recorded subdivision
plat or part thereof.
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. 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 included
within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels.
The surface portion of the street available for vehicular
traffic.
An approved public street generally paralleling and contiguous
to a main travel way, primarily designed to promote safety by providing
safe and orderly points of access to the main travel way at fairly
uniformly spaced intervals.
A public or private way which provides secondary access to
a lot, block or parcel of land.
A sewerage disposal system or any other sewerage treatment
device which services one lot. This system shall be approved by the
Board and the County Sanitary Inspector in accordance with the Brown
County Sanitary Ordinance, the rules of the Department of Commerce
and the Department of Natural Resources.[2]
An area in the village which, in the opinion of the Board,
may be readily and feasibly served by sanitary sewer and water main
extensions.
A concrete or otherwise rigid walkway located within a public
right-of-way or easement, intended for pedestrian use.
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 right-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, sanitary sewers, storm sewers
or drainageways.
A major, high capacity street designed to carry large volumes
of traffic between various areas of the community.
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.
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.
A street of limited continuity used primarily for access
to abutting properties and local needs of a neighborhood.
Any individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership,
corporation, guardian, attorney, trust or any other legal entity that
has legal right of ownership of land and commencing proceedings under
the regulations of this chapter to effect a division of such land
hereunder.
Any division of land by the owner thereof, or his or her
agent, within either the incorporated area of the village or within
the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction of the village, as
that phrase is defined in W.S.A. s. 236.02(5).
[Amended 12-2-1997 by Ord. No. 120297A]
A land surveyor duly registered in the State of Wisconsin.
A street with a high degree of continuity, including collectors,
major arterials and limited access highways.
An asphalt, gravel or otherwise surfaced travelway located
within a public right-of-way or easement, intended for pedestrian
and/or bicycle use.
The rules of administrative agencies having rulemaking authority
in Wisconsin published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system
as directed by the Wisconsin statutes.
