[Amended 3-18-2002]
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A certified survey map prepared by a registered land surveyor shall be required for all minor land divisions. It shall comply in all respects with the requirements of § 236.34, Wis. Stats., and shall comply with the design standards and improvements set forth in Articles VII and VIII of this chapter.
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A preliminary map or sketch map may be submitted by the subdivider to the Town Plan Commission or its staff for review and comment prior to the submission of a proposed certified survey map for review and approval.
The map shall show correctly on its face, in addition to the information required by § 236.34, Wis. Stats., the following:
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Inset map of the area concerned showing the location of the proposed certified survey map in relation to the U.S. Public Land Survey System section and quarter-section lines and abutting and nearby public streets and highways.
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Date, graphic scale and North point.
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Names and addresses of the owner, subdivider and land surveyor preparing the plat.
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All existing structures, together with an identification of the type of structure such as residence, garage, barn or shed; the distances of such structures from existing and proposed property lines, wells, watercourses and drainage ditches; and existing property boundary lines in the area adjacent to the exterior boundaries of the proposed certified survey map and within 100 feet thereof. The proposed use of existing structures to be retained shall be noted. All wells within the exterior boundaries of the proposed certified survey map and within 50 feet of the exterior boundaries of the map shall be shown.
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Location, approximate dimensions and area of any sites to be reserved or dedicated for parks, playgrounds, drainageways, open space preservation or other public use.
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Building or setback lines required by the Town Plan Commission or other approving or objecting agency which are more restrictive than the regulations of the zoning district in which the certified survey map is located, or which are proposed by the subdivider and are to be included in recorded private covenants.
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Location and names of any adjoining streets, highways, subdivisions, parks, cemeteries, public lands and watercourses, including impoundments. The owners of record of abutting unplatted lands shall also be shown.
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Length and bearing of the center line of all streets. The lengths shall be given to the nearest 0.01 foot and the bearings to the nearest one second of arc. The arc, chord and radius lengths and the chord bearing, together with the bearings of the radii of the ends of the arcs and chords, shall be given for all curved lines.
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Street width along the line of any obliquely intersecting street line to the nearest 0.01 foot.
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Active and abandoned railway rights-of-way within and abutting the exterior boundaries of the proposed certified survey map and the location and right-of-way of existing and proposed bicycle and pedestrian ways.
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Notations or any restrictions required by the Town Plan Commission or other approving or objecting agency relative to access control along any public ways within or adjacent to the proposed certified survey map, the provision and use of planting strips, or provisions for the protection of any existing wetlands or other environmentally significant lands within the exterior boundaries of the proposed certified survey map.
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Easements for any public sanitary sewers, water supply mains, stormwater management facilities, drainageways or accessways.
The Plan Commission may require that the following additional information be provided when necessary for the proper review and consideration of the proposed land division:
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Topographic features, including existing or proposed contours, with two-foot intervals for slopes less than 12% and at no more than five-foot intervals for slopes 12% and greater. Elevations shall be marked on such contours, referenced to National NGVD 1929. The requirement to provide topographic data may be waived if the parcel or parcels proposed to be created are fully developed.
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Soil types as shown on the soil survey maps prepared by the U.S. Soil Conservation Service (now known as the "Natural Resources Conservation Service").
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The square footage and elevation of the first floor of all buildings proposed to remain on the site or sites included in the certified survey map.
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The Town Plan Commission, upon recommendation of the Town Engineer, may, in order to determine the suitability of the site concerned for the construction of buildings and supporting roadways, require that soil borings and tests be made to ascertain subsurface soil conditions and depths to bedrock and to the groundwater table. The number of such borings and tests shall be adequate to portray for the intended purpose the character of the soil and the depths to bedrock and groundwater from the undisturbed surface.
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Where the site is not to be served by public sanitary sewer, soil borings and tests shall be made to determine the suitability of the site for the use of on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems. Such borings and tests shall meet the requirements of Chs. Comm 83 and 85, Wis. Adm. Code. The location of the borings shall be shown on the map and the findings with respect to suitability for the use of on-site sewage treatment and disposal systems, set forth in a separate report submitted with the proposed certified survey map.
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Boundaries of primary and secondary environmental corridors and isolated natural resource areas, as delineated and mapped by SEWRPC. The boundaries of wetlands shall also be shown. The wetland boundaries shall be determined on the basis of a field survey made to identify, delineate and map those boundaries, and the name of the person, agency or firm identifying, delineating and mapping the wetland boundaries shall be provided, together with the date of the field survey concerned.
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Boundaries of the one-hundred-year recurrence interval floodplain and related regulatory stages, as determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency or SEWRPC. Where such data are not available, the floodplain boundaries and related stages shall be determined by a registered professional engineer retained by the subdivider, and the engineer's report providing the required data shall be submitted for review and approval by the Town Engineer.
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The location of woodlands, as mapped, within the proposed certified survey map.
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The approximate location of existing and proposed on-site sewage treatment and disposal facilities.
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Historic, cultural and archaeological features, with a brief description of the historic character of buildings, structures, ruins and burial sites.
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Location and water elevations at the date of the survey of all lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, creeks and drainage ditches within the proposed certified survey map and within 200 feet of the exterior boundaries of the map. Approximate high- and low-water elevations and the ordinary high water mark referenced to NGVD 1929 shall also be shown. The status of navigability of the lakes, ponds, rivers, stream, creeks and drainage ditches shall be indicated based upon a determination of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
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The Town Plan Commission may require that the entire area contiguous to the land encompassed within the proposed certified survey map and owned or controlled by the subdivider be included in the certified survey map even though only a portion of said area is proposed for immediate development. The Town Plan Commission may also require the submission of a sketch plan, drawn to scale, showing the entire contiguous holdings owned or controlled by the subdivider and identifying proposed future development of the parcel, including general street and parcel locations.
Where the map is located within a one-quarter section, the corners of which have been located, monumented and placed on the State Plane Coordinate System through high order horizontal control surveys conducted to standards established by SEWRPC, the map shall be tied directly to two adjacent section or quarter-section corners defining a quarter-section line so located, monumented and placed on the State Plane Coordinate System. The grid bearing and distance of each tie shall be determine by field measurements. The Wisconsin State Plane Coordinates, together with a description of the monuments marking the section or quarter-section corners to which the map is tied, shall be shown on the map. All distances and bearings shall be referenced to the Wisconsin State Plane Coordinate System, South Zone, based upon the North American Datum of 1927, and shall be adjusted to the control survey network established to the standards promulgated by SEWRPC for the area concerned. Where the field measurements differ from the control survey data by more than one part in 10,000, in the alternative to adjusting the field-measured distances and bearings of the ties to the control survey network, the surveyor shall show both the measured field distances and bearings and the recorded and published control survey distances and bearings concerned. Under this alternative, the discrepancies shall be brought to the attention of the custodian of the control survey data for the area concerned by the surveyor. All distances shall be recorded to the nearest 0.01 foot and all bearings to the nearest one second of arc. The grid bearing and distance of the tie shall be determined by a closed survey meeting the error of closure herein specified for the survey of the exterior boundaries of the certified survey map.
All certified survey maps shall provide all of the certificates required for final plats by § 236.21, Wis. Stats. The Town Board shall certify its approval on the face of the map. In addition, the surveyor shall certify that he or she has fully complied with all of the provisions of this chapter.
After the certified survey map has been approved by the Town Board, the Town Clerk shall cause the certification inscribed upon the map attesting to such approval to be duly executed and the map returned to the subdivider for recording with the County Register of Deeds. The Register of Deeds shall not record the map unless it is offered for recording within 30 days after the date of the last approval and within 12 months after the first approval.