It is the intent of the Village Board to establish an Official
Map for the purpose of serving and promoting the public health, safety,
convenience, economy, orderliness, and general welfare of the community;
to further the orderly layout and use of land; to stabilize the location
of real property boundary lines; to ensure proper legal descriptions
and proper monumenting of land; to facilitate adequate provision for
transportation, parks, playgrounds, and stormwater drainage; and to
facilitate the further subdivision of larger tracts into smaller parcels
of land.
This chapter is enacted under the authority granted by § 62.23(6),
Wis. Stats.
The jurisdictional area of this chapter shall include all lands
within the corporate limits of the Village of Baldwin and those areas
outside the Village within the extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction
of the Village.
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The Official Map shall show the location and extent of all platted
and existing streets, highways, parkways, parks, and playgrounds within
the corporate limits of the Village of Baldwin as heretofore laid
out, adopted, and established by law. There is hereby established
as the Official Map that map which accompanies and is made part of
this chapter bearing the date of October 4, 2021. This map is hereby
designated as the "Official Map of the Village of Baldwin," and all
notations, references, and other information shown thereon shall be
as much a part of this chapter as though the matters and information
thereon were fully described herein.
The Village Board may change or add to the Official Map so as
to establish the exterior lines of, widen, narrow, extend or close
any platted existing, proposed, or planned streets, highways, parkways,
parks or playgrounds, railway rights-of-way, public transit facilities,
or waterways.
A. The Village
Board shall refer any change or addition to the Official Map to the
Plan Commission for review and report thereon prior to adoption. The
Plan Commission shall report its recommendations to the Village Board
within 60 days.
B. A public
hearing of parties in interest and citizens before the Village Board
shall be required before any changes or additions to the Official
Map are effective. Parties in interest are those persons owning land
which is to be placed on or removed from the Official Map, abutting
property owners, and all property owners within 100 feet. Notice of
the public hearing shall be published as a Class 2 notice pursuant
to Ch. 985, Wis. Stats.
C. Changes
and additions made by duly approved subdivision plats shall not require
a public hearing if the changes or additions do not affect any land
outside the area being platted.
No public sewer or other municipal street utility or improvement
shall be constructed in any street, highway, or parkway within jurisdictional
area of this chapter until such street, highway, or parkway is duly
placed on the Official Map.
The Zoning Board of Appeals shall have the power to review any
administrative decision of the Village Building Inspector to deny
a permit for the erection of a structure under this chapter and to
grant relief from the requirements of this chapter under the provisions
of § 62.23(6)(e), (f) and (g), Wis. Stats.
There shall be a certified copy of the Official Map described in §
605-4. The certified copy shall be kept in the office of the Village Clerk-Treasurer and shall be available for inspection by any interested person during regular office hours. The certified copy shall bear on its face a certification that it is a true copy of the Official Map described in and accompanying this chapter and shall show the date of adoption of this chapter and shall be signed by the Village President and countersigned by the Village Clerk-Treasurer. Thereafter no change or addition to such Official Map shall become effective until it shall have been indicated by the appropriate convention on the aforesaid certified copy of the Official Map and a certificate placed thereon or attached thereto bearing the number and date of adoption of the amending ordinance. The certificate shall be signed by the Village President and countersigned by the Village Clerk-Treasurer.
The Village Clerk-Treasurer shall be responsible immediately
upon adoption of the Official Map or any amendment thereto for recording
a true copy of the Official Map, as adopted or amended, with the Register
of Deeds of the County of St. Croix, Wisconsin.
It shall be the duty of the Village Building Inspector and the
Chief of Police to enforce the provisions of this chapter.