For the purposes of this chapter, the following
definitions shall be used. Words used in the present tense include
the future; the singular number includes the plural number and the
plural number includes the singular number. The word “shall”
is mandatory and not directory.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
A special public way affording only secondary access to abutting
properties.
A street used or intended to be used primarily for fast or
heavy through traffic. Arterial street shall include freeways and
expressways as well as standard arterial streets, highways and parkways.
A tract of land bounded by streets, or a combination of streets,
public parks, cemeteries, railroad rights-of-way, shorelines of navigable
waters and municipal boundaries.
A line parallel to a lot line and at a distance from the
lot line to comply with the terms of this chapter.
A street used or intended to be used to carry traffic from
minor streets to the major system of arterial streets, including the
principal entrance streets to residential developments.
A town, municipality or a group of adjacent towns and/or
municipalities that have common social, economic or physical interests.
The extensively developed plan, also called a master plan,
adopted by the Village Plan Commission and certified to the Village
Board pursuant to §§ 61.35 and 62.23 of the Wisconsin
Statutes, including detailed neighborhood plans, 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 local street with only one outlet and having an appropriate
turnaround for the safe and convenient reversal of traffic movement.
The unincorporated area within 1 1/2 miles of a fourth-class
city or a Village and within three miles of all other cities. Wherever
such statutory extraterritorial powers overlap with those of another
city or Village, the jurisdiction over the overlapping area shall
be divided on a line all points of which are equidistant from each
community so that not more than one community exercises extraterritorial
powers over any area.
A map prepared in accordance with the requirements of Chapter
236 of the Wisconsin Statutes and this chapter for the purpose of
dividing larger parcels into lots and conveying those lots. The lines
showing where lots and other improvements are located are precise.
Those lands, including the floodplains, floodways and channels,
subject to inundation by the one-hundred-year recurrence interval
flood or, where such data is not available, the maximum flood of record.
A minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an
arterial street for control or access and for service abutting development.
The highest elevation to which subsurface water rises. This
may be evidenced by the actual presence of water during drier periods.
“Mottling” is a mixture or variation of soil colors. In
soils with restricted internal drainage, gray, yellow, red and brown
colors are intermingled giving a multicolored effect.
The average annual high-water level of a pond, stream, lake,
flowage or wetland referred to an established datum plane or where
such elevation is not available, the elevation of the line up to which
the presence of the water is so frequent as to leave a distinct mark
by erosion, change in or destruction of vegetation or other easily
recognized topographic, geologic or vegetative characteristic.
An agreement guaranteeing payment for subdivision improvements,
entered into by a bank, savings-and-loan or other financial institution
which is authorized to do business in this state and which has a financial
standing acceptable to the Village, and which is approved, as to form,
by the Village Attorney.
A parcel of land of at least sufficient size to meet minimum
zoning requirements for use, width and area as set forth in the Village
of Saukville Zoning Ordinance.[1] (See Illustration No. 1.)[2]
A lot abutting two or more streets at their intersection, provided that the corner of such intersection shall have an angle of 135 degrees or less, measured on the lot side. (See Illustration No. 1.)[3]
A lot, other than a corner lot, with frontage on more than one street. Double frontage lots shall normally be deemed to have two front yards and two side yards and no rear yard. Double frontage lots abutting arterial highways should restrict direct access to the arterial highway by means of a planting buffer or some other acceptable access buffering measure. (See Illustration No. 1.)[4]
Any division of land not defined as a “subdivision.”
Minor land divisions include the division of land by the owner or
subdivider resulting in the creation of two, but not more than four,
parcels of building sites, any one of which is less than 10 acres
or less in size; or the division of a block, lot or out lot within
a recorded subdivision plat into not more than four parcels or building
sites without changing the exterior boundaries of said block, lot
or out lot. Such minor land divisions shall be made by a certified
survey map.
A street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access
to abutting properties.
An incorporated village or city.
Standards governing the horizontal and vertical accuracy of topographic maps and specifying the means for testing and determining such accuracy, endorsed by all federal agencies having surveying and mapping functions and responsibilities. These standards have been fully reproduced in Appendix D of SEWRPC Technical Report No. 7, Horizontal and Vertical Survey Control in Southeastern Wisconsin.
Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, all natural inland lakes within
Wisconsin, and all streams, ponds, sloughs, flowages and other water
within the territorial limits of this state, including the Wisconsin
portion of boundary waters, which are navigable under the laws of
this state. The Wisconsin Supreme Court has declared as navigable,
bodies of water with a bed differentiated from adjacent uplands and
with levels of flow sufficient to support navigation by a recreational
craft of the shallowest draft on an annually recurring basis. [Muench
v. Public Service Commission, 261 Wis. 2d 492 (1952) & DeGaynor
and Co., Inc, v. Department of Natural Resources, 70 Wis. 2d 936 (1975)].
A parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated
on the plat, but not of standard lot size, which can be either redivided
into lots or combined with one or more other adjacent out lots or
lots in adjacent subdivisions or minor subdivisions in the future
for the purpose of creating buildable lots.
A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision
submitted to an approving authority for purposes of preliminary consideration.
A preliminary plat precisely describes the location and exterior boundaries
of the parcel proposed to be divided, and shows the approximate location
of lots and other improvements.
Any public road, street, highway, walkway, drainageway, or
part thereof.
The process of changing, or the map or plat which changes
the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat, certified survey map
or part thereof. The division of a large block, lot or out lot within
a recorded subdivision plat or certified survey map without changing
the exterior boundaries of said block, lot or out lot is not a replat.
Those lands, in the unincorporated areas of Ozaukee County,
lying 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.
The degree of deviation of a surface from the horizontal, usually expressed in percent or degrees. (See Illustration No. 2 and Table No. 2.)[5]
Soil type, slope and erosion factor boundaries as shown on
the operational soil survey maps prepared by the U.S. Soil Conservation
Service.
Any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing
or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision
or replat.
An agreement by which the Village and the subdivider agree
in reasonable detail as to all of those matters which the provisions
of these regulations permit to be covered by the subdivider’s
agreement and which shall not come into effect unless and until an
irrevocable letter of credit or other appropriate surety has been
issued to the Village.
The division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by the owners
thereof, or their agents, for the purpose of transfer of ownership
or building development where the act of division creates five or
more parcels or building sites of 1 1/2 acres each or less in area;
or where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building
sites of 1 1/2 acres each or less in area by successive division within
a period of five years.
A bond guaranteeing performance of a contract or obligation
through forfeiture of the bond if said contract or obligation is unfulfilled
by the Subdivider.
An area where water is at, near or above the land surface
long enough to be capable of supporting aquatic or hydrophilic vegetation
and which has soils indicative of wet conditions.
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 Chapter 227 of the Wisconsin
Statutes, including subsequent amendments to those rules.
[2]
Editor’s Note: Illustration No. 1 is included at the end of this chapter.
[3]
Editor’s Note: Illustration No. 1 is included at the end of this chapter.
[4]
Editor’s Note: Illustration No. 1 is included at the end of this chapter.
[5]
Editor’s Note: Illustration No. 2 and Table No. 2 are included at the end of this chapter.
