For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions and the definitions
contained in § 236.02, Wis. Stats., shall apply:
A certified map prepared by a registered surveyor of a division of
land other than a subdivision as defined in § 236.02(8), Wis. Stats.
A partition of real property whereby one or more new lots is created.
A map of a subdivision
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted
to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration.
Every highway within the corporate limits of the village except alleys.
"Highway" means all public ways and thoroughfares and bridges on the same.
It includes the entire width between the boundary lines of every way open
to the use of the public as a matter of right for the purposes of vehicular
travel. It includes those roads or driveways in the state, county or municipal
parks and in state forests which have been opened to the use of the public
for the purpose of vehicular travel and roads or driveways upon the grounds
of public schools, as defined in Section 115.01 (1) of the Wisconsin Statutes,
and institutions under the jurisdiction of the County Board of Supervisors
but does not include private roads or driveways as defined in sub. (46).
Arterial streets and highways are used or intended to be used primarily
for through traffic. Arterial streets and highways shall include freeways
and expressways as well as parkways.
Collector streets collect traffic from local streets and convey it to
arterial streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of
a residential development and streets for circulation within such a development.
Secondary streets are those which are used primarily for access to the
abutting properties.
Marginal access streets are secondary streets which are parallel to
and adjacent to primary streets and highways and which provide access to abutting
properties and protection from through traffic.
Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing or
proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision or replat.
A division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owner thereof
or the owner's agent. The act of division creates:
