The following definitions shall be applicable in this chapter:
A public right-of-way which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
A street which provides for the movement of relatively heavy
traffic to, from or within the Village. It has a secondary function
of providing access to abutting land and to collector and minor streets.
A bike route completely apart from a street and restricted
to bicycle, pedestrian and maintenance vehicle traffic.
An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded
by a combination or combinations of streets, exterior boundary lines
of the subdivision and streams or water bodies.
A line parallel to a lot line and at a distance from the
lot line so as to comply with the yard and setback requirements of
the Village Zoning Code or any restriction on the plat which identifies
a line on the plat as a building setback line.
See "minor land division."
A street which collects and distributes internal traffic
within an urban area, such as a residential neighborhood, between
arterial and local streets. It provides access to abutting property.
The Plan Commission created by the Village Board pursuant
to § 62.23, Wis. Stats., (if created).
The extensively developed plan, also called a master plan
and/or smart growth plan, adopted by the Village Board pursuant to
§§ 61.35 and 62.23, Wis. Stats., including detailed
neighborhood plans, proposals for future land use, transportation,
urban redevelopment and public facilities. Devices for the implementation
of these plans, such as zoning, official map, land division, and building
line ordinances and capital improvement programs shall also be considered
a part of the Comprehensive Plan.
A preliminary drawing, made to approximate scale, of a proposed
land division for discussion purposes.
A real estate development in which a condominium form of
ownership pursuant to Ch. 703, Wis. Stats., is utilized.
Legally merging two or more recorded parcels into a single
parcel.
Where the title or any part thereof is transferred by the
execution of a land contract, option to purchase, offer to purchase
and acceptance, deed or certified survey.
A local street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.
A street permanently or temporarily closed at one end, with
or without turnarounds.
Residential, commercial, industrial, governmental and institutional
development in sufficient concentrations or densities to require a
variety and high level of traditional urban services and facilities,
including, but not limited to, full- or part-time municipal police
and fire protection and community administration; additional public
streets and highways; neighborhood parks and playgrounds; neighborhood
schools; local libraries; public sanitary sewer facilities, public
water supply facilities, and public solid waste removal; storm sewers;
mass transit facilities; continual street maintenance; curbs, gutters
and sidewalks; streetlighting; and neighborhood convenience shopping.
Such development may be expected to alter or require the alternating
of land and land cover and have detrimental impact on the ground and
surface waters.
A division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owner
thereof or the owner's agent for any purpose, including sale, development,
foreclosure or condemnation.
An open area of land, either in an easement or dedicated
right-of-way, the primary purpose of which is to carry stormwater
on the ground surface in lieu of an enclosed storm sewer. Drainageways
may serve multiple purposes in addition to their principal use, including,
but not limited to, maintenance, bicycle and pedestrian traffic, sanitary
sewers, water mains, storm sewers, stormwater detention, park development,
and other related uses.
The area of land set aside or over or through which a liberty,
privilege or advantage in land, distinct from ownership of the land,
is granted to the public or some particular person or part of the
public.
The unincorporated area within 1Â 1/2 miles of a fourth-class
city or a village and within three miles of all other cities. Wherever
such statutory extraterritorial powers overlap with those of another
city or village, the jurisdiction over the overlapping area shall
be divided on a line all points of which are equidistant from each
community so that not more than one community exercises extraterritorial
powers over any area.
The final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's
plan of subdivision is presented for approval and which, if approved,
will be submitted to the County Register of Deeds.
Those lands, including the floodplains, floodways and channels,
subject to inundation by the one-hundred-year recurrence interval
flood or, where such data is not available, the maximum flood of record.
A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting
development.
A street, either existing as or proposed to be, half of the
required right-of-way width, with the intention that the adjoining
half will be platted at the time the adjoining lands are subdivided;
or an existing street, of which, due to reasons of ownership, only
half of the right-of-way is within the boundaries of a proposed land
division or annexation.
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.
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 elevation of the line up to which
the presence of the water is so frequent as to leave a distinct mark
by erosion, change in or destruction of vegetation or other easily
recognized topographic, geologic or vegetative characteristic.
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, water main,
roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrianway, planting
strip or other facility for which the Village may ultimately assume
the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
A street of little or no continuity designed to provide access
to abutting property and leading into collector streets.
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street or other
officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the
lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open
space provisions of this chapter and any applicable zoning ordinance.
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot,
excluding streets and land under navigable bodies of water.
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, measured on the lot side.
The average dimension of a parcel measured from the rear
lot line to the front lot line along each side yard setback.
A lot, other than a corner lot, with frontage on more than
one street. Double frontage lots shall normally be deemed to have
two front yards and two side yards and no rear yard. Double frontage
lots shall not generally be permitted unless the lot abuts an arterial
highway. Double frontage lots abutting arterial highways should restrict
direct access to the arterial highway by means of a planting buffer
or some other acceptable access buffering measure.
The peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
A corner lot which is oriented so that it has its rear lot
line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior
lot immediately to its rear.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On
a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
The width of a parcel of land measured along the front building
line.
A street used or intended to be used primarily for fast or
heavy through traffic. Major thoroughfares shall include freeways,
expressways and other highways and parkways, as well as arterial streets.
An extensively developed plan, map or other document pertaining
to planning and adopted by the Village Board or other Village agency
which may pertain to the division of lands, including the Comprehensive
Development Plan, Smart Growth Land Use Plan, the Official Map, comprehensive
utility plans, and other planning documents including proposals for
future land use, transportation, urban redevelopment and public facilities.
Devices for the implementation of these plans, such as ordinances
pertaining to zoning, official map, land division, and building development
and capital improvement plans shall be considered as planning documents
within this definition.
Any division of land not defined as a "subdivision." Minor
land divisions include the division of land by the owner or subdivider
resulting in the creation of two, but not more than four, parcels
of building sites, any one of which is less than 35 acres in size;
or the division of a block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision.
A certified survey map may be used to change the boundaries of lots
and outlots within a recorded plat or recorded certified survey map
if the redivision does not result in a subdivision or violate a local
subdivision regulation. A certified survey map may not alter the exterior
boundary of a recorded plat, areas previously dedicated to the public,
or a restriction placed on the platted land by covenant, by grant
of an easement or by any other manner.
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access
to abutting properties; also referred to as a "local street."
Standards governing the horizontal and vertical accuracy
of topographic maps and specifying the means for testing and determining
such accuracy, endorsed by all federal agencies having surveying and
mapping functions and responsibilities.
Any stream capable of floating any boat, skiff or canoe of
the shallowest draft used for recreational purposes.
A map indicating the location, width and extent of existing
and proposed streets, highways, drainageways, parks, playgrounds,
and other facilities, as adopted by the Village Board pursuant to
the Wisconsin Statutes.
A parcel of land, other than a lot, so designated on a plat
or certified survey and which is not intended for building or structure
development, in the proposed land division.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation,
public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these, having
any pecuniary interest in lands regulated by this chapter.
Contiguous lands under the control of a subdivider whether
or not separated by a combination of streets, exterior subdivision
boundary lines, streams or other water bodies.
A public way, usually running at right angles to streets,
which is intended for the convenience of pedestrians only; it may
also provide public right-of-way for utilities.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
any individual, firm, association, syndicate, partnership, corporation,
trust or any other legal entity.
A form of development usually characterized by a unified
site design for a number of housing units. The concept usually involves
clustering of buildings, providing common open space, and mixing different
types of housing (single-family, duplexes, and multifamily). Ordinances
permitting planned unit developments permit planning a project and
calculating densities for the entire development rather than on an
individual lot-by-lot basis. It is hereby declared that regulating
planned unit developments requires greater involvement of public officials
in site plan review and development aspects of both zoning and land
division regulation since such developments require exceptions from
both types of regulation.
The map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plat
of subdivision is presented to the Village for approval.
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the
proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Village
Board for its consideration as to compliance with the Comprehensive
Development Plan and these regulations along with required supporting
data.
Contracts entered into between private parties or between
private parties and public bodies pursuant to § 236.293,
Wis. Stats., which constitute a restriction on the use of all private
or platted property within a subdivision for the benefit of the public
or property owners and to provide mutual protection against undesirable
aspects of development which would tend to impair stability of values.
Any public road, street, highway, walkway, drainageway or
part thereof.
The process of changing, or a map or plat which changes,
the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The
legal dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision
plat without changing exterior boundaries of said block, lot or outlot
is not a replat.
A single-family dwelling or part of a duplex, apartment or
other multiple-family dwelling occupied by one family of one distinct
set of inhabitants or occupants.
A public way dedicated to the public for its intended use.
That portion of the Village and the area within its extraterritorial
jurisdiction which has been designated by the Village Board as the
area to which services required in urban areas shall be provided in
a planned and orderly process, particularly those facilities which
are placed on or in the land as part of the urban development process.
Such services include, but are not limited to, public sanitary and
storm sewers, water supply and distribution system, streets and highways.
Those lands within the following distances: 1,000 feet from
the high-water elevation of navigable lakes, ponds and flowages or
300 feet from the high-water elevation of navigable streams or to
the landward side of the floodplain, whichever is greater.
Soil type, slope and erosion factor boundaries as shown on
the operational soil survey maps prepared by the U.S. Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
A public way for pedestrians and vehicular traffic and utility
access, including but not limited to highways, thoroughfares, parkways,
through highways, roads, avenues, boulevards, lanes, places and courts,
and any pavement, turf, fixtures, facilities, structures, plantings,
signs and other elements of the right-of-way.
Anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires
more or less permanent location on the ground, or attached to something
having permanent location on the ground, excepting public utility
fixtures and appurtenances.
Any person, firm, corporation, agent, partnership or entity
of any sort which divides or proposes to divide, by plat, minor subdivision,
certified survey or replat, land in any manner, including such heirs
and assigns as may be responsible for the obligations of the subdivider
under the provisions of this chapter.
The division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owner
thereof or the owner's agent for the purpose of sale or of building
development, where:
A bond guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation
through forfeiture of the bond if said contract or obligation is unfulfilled
by the subdivider.
The Village of Argyle, Lafayette County, Wisconsin, and,
where appropriate, its Village Board, commissions, committees and
authorized officials.
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. [§ 23.32(1),
Wis. Stats.]
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority in Wisconsin, published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system, as directed by § 35.93 and Ch. 227, Wis. Stats., including subsequent amendments to those rules.
The concept whereby two respective dwelling units within
a building shall be on separate and abutting lots and shall meet on
the common property line between them, thereby having zero space between
said units.
[Added 4-6-2022 by Ord. No. 3-2022]
