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The County shall review, pursuant to § 236.45, Wis. Stats., all land divisions in shoreland areas which create three or more parcels or building sites of five acres each or less within a five-year period. In such review all of the following factors shall be considered:
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Hazards to health, safety, or welfare of future residents.
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Proper relationship to adjoining areas.
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Public access to navigable waters, as required by law.
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Adequate stormwater drainage facilities.
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Conformity to state law and Administrative Code provisions.
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Purpose. The planned unit development (PUD) is intended to permit smaller nonriparian lots where the physical layout of the lots is so arranged as to better assure the control of pollution and preservation of ground cover than would be expected if the lots were developed with the normal lot sizes and setbacks and without special conditions placed upon the planned unit development at the time of its approval. A condition of all planned residential unit developments is the preservation of certain open space, preferably on the shoreland, in perpetuity.
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Requirements for planned unit development. The County Land Management Committee may at its discretion, upon its own motion or upon petition, approve a planned unit development overlay district upon finding, after a public hearing, that all of the following facts exist:
(1) 
Area. The area proposed for the planned unit development shall be at least two acres in size or have a minimum of 200 feet of frontage on navigable water.
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Lots. Any proposed lot in the planned unit development that does not meet the minimum size standards of §§ 242-20 and 242-21 shall be a nonriparian lot.
(3) 
Lot sizes, widths, setbacks, and vegetation removal. When considering approval of a planned unit development, the governing body shall consider whether proposed lot sizes, widths, and setbacks are of adequate size and distance to prevent pollution or erosion along streets or other public ways and waterways. Increased shoreland setbacks shall be a condition of approval as a way of minimizing adverse impacts of development. Shore cover provisions in § 242-26 shall apply except that maximum width of a lake frontage opening shall be 100 feet and minimum vegetative buffer depth shall be increased to offset the impact of the proposed development.
Each county shall adopt sanitary regulations for the protection of health and the preservation and enhancement of water quality.
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Where public water supply systems are not available, private well construction shall be required to conform to Ch. NR 812, Wis. Admin. Code.
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Where public sewage collection and treatment system is not available, design and construction of private on-site waste water treatment system shall, prior to July 1, 1980, be required to comply with Ch. SPS 383, Wis. Admin. Code, and after June 30, 1980, be governed by a private sewage system ordinance adopted by the County under § 59.70(5), Wis. Stats.