The following definitions shall be applicable
in this chapter:
An area of land which is normally square or rectangular,
or the sides of which are nominally parallel to the section lines,
and the tract can be accurately described for tax purposes by half
section, quarter section, quarter-quarter section description. "Aliquot
part" shall also mean the division of existing lots by the description,
e.g., the east half of Lot 10 or the west 45 feet in equal width of
Lot 16.
A public right-of-way which normally affords a secondary
means of vehicular access to abutting property.
A street which provides for the movement of relatively fast
or heavy traffic to, from or within the Village. It has a secondary
function of providing access to abutting land.
An area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded
by a combination or combinations of streets, exterior boundary lines
of the subdivision and streams or water bodies.
A line parallel to a lot line and at a distance from the lot line to comply with the yard and setback requirements of Chapter 320, Zoning, of this Code.
A map of land division, prepared in accordance with § 236.34,
Wis. Stats., and in full compliance with this chapter.
A street which collects and carries traffic within an area
such as a residential neighborhood between arterial streets and local
streets. It includes principal entrance streets to residential subdivisions.
It provides access to abutting property.
The Plan Commission created by the Village Board pursuant
to § 62.23, Wis. Stats.
A Comprehensive Plan prepared by the Village
indicating the general locations recommended for the various functional
classes of land use, places and structures and for the general physical
development of the Village, and includes any unit or part of such
plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.
The extensively developed plan, adopted by the
Plan Commission and certified to the Village Board pursuant to § 62.23,
Wis. Stats., including proposals for future land use, transportation,
urban redevelopment, and public facilities. Devices for the implementation
of these plans, such as zoning, official map, land division, and building
line ordinances and capital improvement programs, shall also be considered
a part of the Comprehensive Plan.
A real estate development in which a condominium form of
ownership pursuant to Ch. 703, Wis. Stats., is utilized.
A short street having but one end open to traffic and the
other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.
Where the title or any part thereof is transferred by the
execution of a land contract, an option to purchase, an offer to purchase
and acceptance, a deed, or a certified survey.
The area of land set aside or over or through which a liberty,
privilege or advantage in land, distinct from ownership of the land,
is granted to the public or some particular person or part of the
public.
The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of a fourth-class
city or a village and within three miles of all other cities.
The final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's
plan of subdivision is presented for approval and which, if approved,
will be submitted to the County Register of Deeds.
A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting
development.
Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, curb and gutter,
water main, roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrianway,
planting strip or other facility for which the Village may ultimately
assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.
A street used primarily for access to abutting properties
and connecting with not more than two local or collector streets and
not exceeding 1,000 feet in length.
A parcel of land having frontage on a public street or other
officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied
by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the
lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open
space provisions of this chapter and any applicable zoning ordinance.
The area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot,
excluding streets and land under navigable bodies of water.
A lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.
The peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.
A corner lot which is oriented so that it has its rear lot
line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior
lot immediately to its rear.
A lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more
or less parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On
a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.
The width of a parcel of land measured along the front building
line.[2]
The division of land by the owner or subdivider resulting
in the creation of two parcels or building sites, any one of which
is four acres in size or less, or the division of a block, lot, or
outlot within a recorded subdivision plat into not more than four
parcels or building sites without changing the exterior boundaries
of said block, lot, or parcel.
Section 62.23(6), Wis. Stats., provides that the Village
Board may establish an Official Map for the precise designation of
the right-of-way lines and site boundaries of streets, highways, parkways,
parks, and playgrounds, both existing and proposed. The statutes further
provide that the Official Map may be extended to include areas beyond
the corporate limits but within the extraterritorial plat approval
jurisdiction of the municipality.
A parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated
on the plat.
Includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean
either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation,
public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these.
A public way, usually running at right angles to streets,
which is intended for the convenience of pedestrians only. It may
also provide a public right-of-way for utilities.
A form of development usually characterized by a unified
site design for a number of housing units. The concept usually involves
clustering buildings, providing common open space, and mixing different
types of housing (single family, duplexes, and apartments). Ordinances
permitting planned unit development permit planning a project and
calculating densities for the entire development rather than on an
individual lot-by-lot basis. It is hereby declared that regulating
planned unit developments requires greater involvement of public officials
in site plan review and development aspects of both zoning and subdivision
regulation since such developments require exceptions from both types
of regulation.
The map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plat
of subdivision is presented to the Village for approval.
The preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the Plan Commission/Village Board for their consideration as to compliance with the Comprehensive Plan, Chapter 320, Zoning, and this chapter along with required supporting data.
Contracts entered into between private parties or between
private parties and public bodies pursuant to § 236.293,
Wis. Stats., which constitute a restriction on the use of all private
or platted property within a minor land division or subdivision for
the benefit of the public or property owners and to provide mutual
protection against undesirable aspects of development which would
tend to impair stability of values.
The process of changing, or a map or plat which changes,
the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The
legal dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision
plat or certified survey map without changing exterior boundaries
of said block, lot or outlot is not a replat.
Those lands within the following distances: 1,000 feet from
the high-water elevation of navigable lakes, ponds and flowages or
300 feet from the high-water elevation of navigable streams or to
the landward side of the floodplain, whichever is greater.
Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
(certified survey map) or replat.
A division of a lot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner
thereof or his agent for the purpose of sale or of building development
where the act of division creates three or more parcels or building
sites of four acres each or less in area; three or more parcels or
building sites of four acres each or less in area are created by successive
divisions within a period of five years; or the act of division or
the creation of any parcels or building sites results in the creation
or alteration of any street or alley. The definitions herein shall
apply with equal effect to the division or creation of parcels or
building sites, whether or not said tracts shall, at such time, be
part of a previously platted subdivision.
A State of Wisconsin registered land surveyor.
The area expected to be served by public sanitary sewer and
water utility within the next twenty-year period as mapped in the
Village Comprehensive Plan.
The Village of Orfordville, Rock County, Wisconsin.
An area where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophytic vegetation
and which has soils indicative of wet conditions [§ 23.32(1),
Wis. Stats.].
The rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority
in Wisconsin, published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system,
as directed by § 35.93 and Ch. 227, Wis. Stats., including
subsequent amendments to those rules.
