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Village of Johnson Creek, WI
Jefferson County
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A certified survey map prepared by a registered land surveyor shall be required for all minor land division. It shall comply in all respects with the requirements of § 236.34, Wis. Stats. The minor land division shall comply with the design standards and the improvement requirements set forth in this chapter. A preliminary map or sketch shall be submitted to the Village of Johnson Creek Plan Commission for all tracts of land proposed to be divided.
A. 
Certified survey maps shall show the following:
(1) 
Date of the map.
(2) 
Insert showing map of area with property location.
(3) 
Graphic scale and North arrow.
(4) 
Name and address and the owner, subdivider and land surveyor.
(5) 
All existing structures, including square footage and horizontal offset to existing and/or proposed property lines, and the first floor elevation thereof, visible and known wells, watercourses, drainage ditches, existing property lines of abutting property, and other features pertinent to proper division.
(6) 
Name of adjoining streets, highways, parks, cemeteries, subdivisions, ponds, streams, lakes, flowages, and wetlands.
(7) 
Location of the area on the lot where a structure may be built to afford solar access to the rooftop and south wall.
(8) 
Additional setbacks or building lines required by the Village of Johnson Creek Plan Commission which are more restrictive than the regulations of the zoning district in which the plat is located or which are proposed by the subdivider and are to be included in recorded protective covenants.
(9) 
Additional setbacks or offsets proposed by the subdivider which are more restrictive than the regulations of the zoning district in which the plat is located.
(10) 
All lands reserved for future public acquisition.
(11) 
Floodplain limits of the one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood as determined by the federal flood insurance study or other technical document, or, where such data is not available, the elevation shall be determined by a registered professional engineer and the sealed documents shall be approved by the Village Engineer; the contour line lying a vertical distance of two feet above the elevation of the one-hundred-year recurrence interval flood, or, where such data is not available, the elevation shall be determined by a registered professional engineer and the sealed documents shall be approved by the Village Engineer, within the exterior boundaries of the plat.
(12) 
Exact length and bearing of the center line of all streets.
(13) 
Exact street width along the line of any obliquely intersecting street.
(14) 
Railroad rights-of-way within and abutting the plat.
(15) 
A drainage and grading plan for all lots on the map bearing a statement concerning the relation of all drainage swales, ponds, or other facilities.
(16) 
Special restrictions required by the Village of Johnson Creek Plan Commission and any other approving or objecting agency relating to access control along public ways, the provision of planting strips, solar access restrictions, preservation of wetlands, more restrictive yard requirements, or special restrictions for environmentally significant lands.
(17) 
Location, area, depth, and type of the soil absorption waste disposal system for each building site, if applicable.
(18) 
Delineation of all wetlands and shoreland/wetlands based on a field staking by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, or other agency or firm certified to make such delineation by the federal government or the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.
(19) 
Grading plan for the proposed land division extending 150 feet from the proposed property lines.
B. 
Easements shall be shown on the certified survey map and shall be limited to utility easements, drainage easements, conservation easements, access easements, scenic easements, mineral easements, or air rights easements. Easements shall not be used for the conveyance of street rights-of-way, pedestrian rights-of-way, park or school lands, or other public lands requiring dedication.
A. 
The Plan Commission may require that the following additional information be provided when necessary for the proper review and consideration of the map:
(1) 
Existing contours at vertical intervals of not more than two feet where the slope of the ground surface is less than 10% and of not more than five feet where the slope of the ground surface is 10% or more. Elevations shall be marked on such contours based on National Geodetic Vertical Datum (NGVD) of 1929 (mean sea level). The requirement to provide topographic data may be waived if the parcel(s) created is/are fully developed.
(2) 
Soil type, slope, and boundaries as shown on the detailed operational soil survey maps prepared by the United States Soil Conservation Service.
(3) 
Setbacks or building lines required by the Village of Johnson Creek Plan Commission in accordance with the guidelines set forth in this chapter.
(4) 
Location of soil boring tests. The number of such tests shall be adequate to portray the character of the soil and the depths of bedrock and groundwater from the natural undisturbed surface. To accomplish this purpose, a minimum of one test per three acres shall be made initially. The results of such tests shall be submitted along with the certified survey map.
(5) 
Location of soil percolation tests where required by the Wisconsin Department of Commerce Administrative Code, taken at the location and depth in which soil absorption waste disposal systems are to be installed. The number of such tests initially made shall not be less than one test per three acres or one test per lot, whichever is greater. The results of such tests shall be submitted along with the certified survey map.
B. 
The Plan Commission may waive the requirement that the entire area contiguous to the land outlined in the proposed certified survey map owned or controlled by the subdivider be included on the certified survey map even though only a portion of said area is proposed for immediate development; however, this waiver may only occur when the parcel(s) to be created by a land division is/are 20 acres or more in area and is/are not intended for development.
Where the map is located within a United States Public Land Survey quarter section the corners of which have been relocated, monumented and placed on the Wisconsin State Plane Coordinate System by the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission, Jefferson County or the Village of Johnson Creek, the map shall be tied directly to two or more of the section or quarter corners so relocated, monumented and coordinated. The exact grid bearing and distance of such tie shall be determined by field measurements, and the type of monument and Wisconsin State Plane Coordinates of the monument marking the relocated section or quarter corner to which the map is tied shall be indicated on the map. All distances and bearings shall be referenced to the Wisconsin Coordinate System, South Zone. The grid bearing and distance of the tie shall be determined by a closed survey meeting the error of closure herein specified for the survey of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision.
The surveyor shall certify on the face of the map that he has fully complied with all the provisions of this chapter. The Village Board, after approval by the Village of Johnson Creek Plan Commission and the recommendation by all reviewing agencies, shall certify its approval on the face of the map.
A. 
When a certified survey map includes the dedication of streets and other public areas, an owner's certificate in substantially the same form as required by § 236.21(2)(a), Wis. Stats., shall be required.
B. 
All certified survey maps shall provide all the certificates required by § 236.21, Wis. Stats.
The certified survey map (CSM) shall be recorded with the Jefferson County Register of Deeds only after the certificates of the Village Board and of the surveyor are placed on the face of the map. The CSM shall be recorded by the Village of Johnson Creek Clerk-Treasurer within 30 days of its approval by the Village Board, provided that the recording fees have been tendered as required by § 245-28 of this chapter.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
The subdivider shall provide a duplicate reproducible copy of the certified survey map on film and in DXF format on a three-and-one-half-inch diskette to the Village of Johnson Creek.
Any notes required by the Village of Johnson Creek shall be placed on the face of the certified survey map prior to recording by the Village of Johnson Creek.