Village of Blue Mounds, WI Article I Introduction

§ 325-1 Authority.

[Amended 1-12-2011 by Ord. No. A-211]

These regulations are adopted under the authority granted by Chapter 236 of the Wisconsin Statutes. To the extent that this chapter contains time limits, deadlines, notice requirements, or other provisions that are more restrictive than time limits, deadlines, notice requirements, or other provisions that provide protections for a subdivider contained in Chapter 236 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the time limits, deadlines, notice requirements or other provisions that provide protections for a subdivider contained in Chapter 236 shall apply.

§ 325-2 Purpose and intent.

The purpose of this chapter is to promote the public health, safety and general welfare of the Village of Blue Mounds, to lessen congestion in the streets and highways; to further the orderly layout and use of land; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration of population; to facilitate the adequate provision for transportation, water, sewerage, surface drainage, schools, parks, playgrounds and other public requirements; and to facilitate the further resubdivision of larger parcels into smaller parcels of land.

§ 325-3 Conflict with other provisions.

If any other ordinances or parts of ordinances of the Village of Blue Mounds are inconsistent or in conflict with any section, subsection, paragraph or division of this chapter, the most restrictive ordinance or part of ordinance shall prevail to the extent of inconsistency or conflict only.

§ 325-4 Title.

This chapter shall be known as the "Land Division Regulations, Blue Mounds, Wisconsin."

§ 325-5 Definitions.

A. The following terms, whenever they occur in this chapter, are defined as follows:

ACT OF DIVISION

The division of a lot or parcel of land into two or more parcels.

CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP

A map or plan or record of a land division, not a subdivision, meeting all the requirements of Wis. Stats., § 236.34, and of this chapter.

DEVELOPER

Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, estate, trust or other legal entity requesting review or action on a development.

DEVELOPMENT

A land division, subdivision or planned development.

DEVELOPMENT PLAN

A total site plan of an area of land 80 acres or more in size all under the control of a developer at the time of submission for review. Such plan specifies and illustrates the location, relationship, and nature of all uses, easements, streets, pedestrian paths, common open space and other public ways.

DRAINAGE SYSTEM, MAJOR

The major drainage system consists of streets, drainageways, drainage channels and detention basins which convey that stormwater which cannot be conveyed within the minor system. The major system shall be designed to convey runoff resulting from the one-hundred-year storm event.

DRAINAGE SYSTEM, MINOR

The minor drainage system consists of storm sewer inlets, inlet lead pipe, storm sewers, streets, gutters and drainage swales designed to reduce damage and inconvenience due to stormwater runoff resulting from storms having a return period up to and including the ten-year storm event.

DRIVEWAY

A surfaced vehicle access from private property to a public street.

EXTRATERRITORIAL JURISDICTION

The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of the corporate limits of the Village of Blue Mounds.

FINAL PLAT

The map or plan of record of a subdivision and any accompanying material as required in §§ 325-17 and 325-21 of this chapter.

GOVERNING BODY

The Village Board of the Village of Blue Mounds.

GREENWAY

An open area of land included under the definition of "parkway," the primary purpose of which is to carry stormwater on the surface of the ground in lieu of an enclosed storm sewer. Greenways may serve the following multiple public purposes in addition to their principal use including, but not limited to, vehicular and/or pedestrian traffic, sanitary sewers, water mains, storm sewers, stormwater retention basins, park development and other related uses.

IMPERVIOUS LOT AREA

Roof areas, concrete, gravel or bituminous surfaces, sidewalks, decks or other hard surface areas.

LAND DIVISION

The division of a lot or parcel of land for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development, where the act of division creates fewer than five parcels, lots or building sites, any one of which is 15 acres or less in area. The successive land division of a lot or parcel shall not create more than four parcels in any five-year period.

MASTER PLAN

The Comprehensive Plan for guiding and shaping the growth and development of the Village, including all of the component parts, as prepared by the Plan Commission and approved by the Village Board.

OFFICIAL MAP

The map indicating the location, width and/or extent of existing and proposed streets, highways, parkways, parks and playgrounds adopted by the Village of Blue Mounds pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 62.23(6).

PARCEL

Contiguous lands under the control of a subdivider not separated by streets, highways or Military Ridge Trail rights-of-way.

PARKWAY

Any right-of-way for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, or both, with full or partial control of access and usually located within a park or a ribbon of parklike development. Such parkway may include greenways required for stormwater drainage purposes where the drainage improvement is to include parklike treatment and where pedestrian or vehicular travel may be permitted.

PLAN COMMISSION

The Village of Blue Mounds Plan Commission.

PLANNED DEVELOPMENT

Any development in a planned development district established under Chapter 385, Zoning, of the Village Code.

PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

A zoning district provided for in Chapter 385, Zoning, of the Village Code which allows diversification and variation in land development to achieve an improved living environment and to preserve open space.

PLAT

A map of a subdivision.

PRELIMINARY PLAT

A map delineating the features of a proposed subdivision or land division as described in §§ 325-16 and 325-19, submitted to the Plan Commission for preliminary consideration prior to the final plat and, when required, prior to a land division.

PUBLIC WAY

Any public road, street, highway, walkway, drainageway, greenway, parkway or part thereof.

REPLAT and RESUBDIVISION

The process of changing or the map which changes the boundaries of a recorded plat or a part thereof. The legal division of a larger block, lot or outlot within a recorded plat without changing the exterior boundaries of such block, lot or outlot is not a replat. See § 236.36, Wis. Stats.

STREET

A public way for vehicular or pedestrian traffic, whether designated as a street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, throughway, road, avenue, boulevard, lane, place or however otherwise designated.

(1) ARTERIAL STREETS AND HIGHWAYS Those streets which provide for rapid movement of concentrated volumes of traffic over relatively long distances.

(a) PRINCIPAL ARTERIALS Streets serving the major interstate and interregional traffic corridors and providing the highest mobility level and a high degree of access control.

(b) PRIMARY ARTERIALS Streets serving major regions or connecting important cities and major intracommunity corridors in the metropolitan area. These routes provide high mobility and a high degree of access control.

(c) STANDARD ARTERIALS Those streets which more commonly provide for intermediate length trips, thus serving through traffic movement in trade areas or feeding traffic to the principal and primary arterial streets from lower activity areas not served by such routes.

(2) COLLECTOR STREETS Streets which provide moderate speed movement of persons and goods between major arterials and/or activity centers. They are basically local streets which usually, because of directness of routing and higher capacity, receive higher volumes of traffic to be distributed from or collected toward nearby arterial streets.

(3) LOCAL STREETS Streets designed for low speeds and volumes which provide access from low-traffic-generating areas to collector and arterial streets.

(a) COMMERCIAL STREET A local street serving a Retail, General or Commercial Business District.[1]

(b) RESIDENTIAL STREETS

[1] TYPE I A subcollector street serving high-density residential area.

[2] TYPE II A standard residential street.

[3] TYPE III A street for low-density residences where provision is made for adequate off-street parking and where there is not through traffic.

(4) MARGINAL ACCESS STREETS (FRONTAGE ROADS) Streets parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and highways which provide access to abutting properties and separation from through traffic.

(5) ALLEY A public right-of-way which affords a secondary means of access to abutting property.

(6) CUL-DE-SAC STREETS Streets closed at one end with turnarounds.

(7) DEAD-END STREETS Streets closed at one end without turnarounds.

SUBDIVIDER

Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, estate, trust or other legal entity requesting review or action on a land division or subdivision.

SUBDIVISION

The division of a lot or parcel of land for the purpose of ownership transfer or building development, where:

(1) The act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites of 15 acres each or less in area; or

(2) The act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites of 15 acres or less in area by successive divisions within a period of five years.

URBAN SERVICE AREA

That area which the Village Board has designated as the area within which it expects the provision of the full range of urban facilities and services. For purposes of this chapter, the full range of services include, but is not limited to, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, water supply and distribution, fire service and police, parks and open space, recreation, schools and transportation. PRC approval is also required for the urban service area.[2]

UTILITY EASEMENT

An easement to place, replace, maintain or move utility facilities.

VILLAGE

The Village of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin, or its elected Village Board.

VILLAGE BOARD

The Village Board of the Village of Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

ZONING CODE

Village of Blue Mounds Zoning Ordinance, Chapter 385 of the Village Code.

[1] Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).

[2] Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).

B. Other. All other pertinent terms shall be as defined in Chapter 385, Zoning, of the Village Code and in Wis. Stats. Chapter 236.