For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
ALLEY. A public or private way which provides secondary access to a lot, block, or parcel of land.
BLOCK. A parcel, lot, or group of lots existing within well-defined and fixed boundaries, usually being an area surrounded by streets or other physical barriers and having an assigned number, letter, or other name through which it may be identified.
BUILDING SETBACK LINE. The distance from the boundaries of a lot or centerline of a street within which structures or buildings shall not be erected.
CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP. A map of a subdivision of land prepared in accordance with Wis. Stats. § 236.34.
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The official guide for the physical, social, and economic growth of the village or its constituent party, properly enacted or adopted according to statute, which is now or may hereafter be in effect.
CONSTRUCTION YEAR. A 12-month period of time commencing on the first of the month following final plat approval.
CROSSWALK. A public right-of-way traversing a block for the purpose of providing pedestrian access.
CUL-DE-SAC. A short minor street having one end open to motor traffic and the other end terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
DEADEND STREET. A street having only one outlet for vehicular traffic and no vehicular turnaround.
DEVELOPMENT. The act of constructing buildings or installing site improvements.
DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOT. A lot having frontage on opposite property boundaries with public streets.
EASEMENT. Any strip of land reserved by the subdivider for public utilities, drainage, sanitation, or other specified uses having limitations, the title to which shall remain in the property owner, subject to the right of use designated in the reservation of the servitude.
FINAL PLAT. The map or drawing of a subdivision prepared in compliance with the provisions of Wis. Stats. Chapter 236, and any accompanying material as described in § 153.051.
FRONTAGE. The length of the front property line at the front setback line of the lot, lots, or tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway, or rural right-of-way.
GRADIENT. The slope of a road, street, or other public way specified as a percentage.
IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC. Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage ditch, roadway, parkway, sidewalk, pedestrian way, planting strip, off-street parking area, or other facility for which the local municipality may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance operation.
LIMITED ACCESS EXPRESSWAY OR FREEWAY. A trafficway in respect to which owners or occupants of abutting property or lands and other persons have no legal right of access to or from the same except only at such points and in such manner as may be determined by the public authority having jurisdiction over such trafficway.
LOCAL UNIT. A local unit in this chapter, including the county, as well as towns, villages, and cities.
LOT. A buildable parcel of land represented and identified in a subdivision, as defined below.
LOT SPLIT. A division of land other than a subdivision.
OFFICIAL MAP. The map of the village adopted pursuant to state statutes showing streets, highways, parkways, parks, playgrounds, and the exterior lines of planned new streets, highways, parkways, parks, or playgrounds.
OUTLOT. A parcel of land, other than a lot or block, so designated on the plat. A remnant parcel of land not to be used for building purposes.
PLAT. A map of a subdivision.
PRELIMINARY PLAT. A map showing the salient features of a proposed subdivision submitted to the Village Board for purposes of preliminary consideration.
REPLAT. The changing of the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof.
REVERSE FRONTAGE LOTS. Corner lots with no provision for extra width to permit side yard to be the same as the front yard on that side.
RIGHT-OF-WAY. A strip of land occupied or intended to be occupied for a special use. Rights-of- way intended for streets, crosswalks, water mains, sanitary sewers, storm drains, or any other use involving maintenance by a public agency shall be dedicated to public use by the maker of the plat on which such right-of-way is established. The usage of the term RIGHT-OF-WAY for land platting purposes shall mean that every right-of-way hereafter established and shown on a final plat is to be separate and distinct from the lots or parcels adjoining such right-of-way and not included within the dimensions or areas of such lots or parcels.
ROADWAY. The surface portion of the street available for vehicular traffic.
SERVICE DRIVE. An approved public street generally paralleling and contiguous to a main traveled way, primarily designed to promote safety by eliminating ingress and egress to the right-of-way and providing safe and orderly points of access at fairly uniformly spaced intervals.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL SYSTEM, INDIVIDUAL. A septic tank, seepage tile sewerage disposal system, or any other sewerage treatment device approved by the Building Inspector as being in accordance with the rules of the Department of Health and Social Services and the Department of Natural Resources, and servicing only one building site.
SEWERED AREA. An area in the village which, in the opinion of the Village Board, may be readily and feasibly served by sewer and water extensions to existing sewer and water systems.
SIDEWALK. The portion of a street or crosswalk way, paved or otherwise surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
STREET. Includes all access ways in common use, such as streets, roads, lanes, highways, avenues, boulevards, alleys, parkways, viaducts, circles, courts, and cul-de-sacs, and includes all of the land lying between the rights-of-way lines as delineated on a plat showing such streets whether improved or unimproved and whether dedicated for public use or held in trust under the terms of a reservation, but shall not include those access ways such as easements and rights-of-way intended solely for limited utility purposes such as for electric power lines, gas lines, telephone lines, water lines, or drainage and sanitary sewers.
STREET, ARTERIAL. A major, high capacity street designed to carry large volumes of traffic between various areas of the village.
STREET, COLLECTOR. A street which carries traffic from minor streets to the system of major streets and highways, including the principal entrance streets of a residential development and the principal circulating streets within such a development.
STREET, HALF. A street bordering one or more property lines of a tract of land in which the subdivider has allocated a part of the ultimate right-of-way width.
STREET, MINOR OR LOCAL. A street of limited continuity used primarily for access to abutting properties and local needs of a neighborhood.
SUBDIVIDER. A person commencing proceedings under the regulations of this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself or herself or others.
SUBDIVISION. Any division of a lot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner thereof or his or her agent for the purpose of sale or building development where:
(1) The act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites of five acres each or less in area; or
(2) Five or more parcels or building sites of five acres each or less in area are created by successive divisions within a period of five years.
SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS. The basic land planning standards established as guides for the preparation of plats.
SURVEYOR. A land surveyor duly registered in the state.
THOROUGHFARE. A street with a high degree of continuity, including collector streets, major arterial streets, and limited access highways.
(Prior Code, § 18.03)