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(A) General requirements. A certified survey map prepared by a registered land surveyor shall be required for all minor land divisions. It shall comply in all respects with the requirements of Wis. Stats. § 236.34. The minor subdivision shall comply with the design standards and improvement requirements set forth in §§ 153.097.
(B) Required information. The map shall show correctly on its face, in addition to the information required by Wis. Stats. § 236.34, the following:
(1) All existing buildings, watercourses, drainage ditches, and other features pertinent to proper land division;
(2) Setbacks or building lines, if required by the Plan Commission, in accordance with the guidelines set forth in §§ 153.073;
(3) Utility and/or drainage easements;
(4) All lands reserved for future acquisition;
(5) Date of the map;
(6) Shoreland-Wetland and floodplain limits and the contour line lying a vertical distance of two feet above the elevation of the 100-year recurrence interval flood or, where such data is not available, five feet above the elevation of the maximum flood of record;
(7) Graphic scale and north arrow; and
(8) Names and addresses and telephone numbers of the owner, subdivider, and surveyor.
(C) State plan coordinate system. All plats shall be tied directly to a section or quarter corner monumented according to the state plane coordinate system. The exact grid bearing and distance of such tie shall be determined by field measurements, and the material and state plane coordinates of the monument marking the section or quarter corner to which the plat is tied shall be indicated on the plat. The grid bearing and distance of the tie shall be determined by a closed survey meeting the error of closure specified in § 153.051(E) for the survey of the exterior boundaries of the subdivision. All distances and bearings shall be referenced to the state’s coordinate system.
(D) Certificates. The surveyor shall certify on the face of the map that he or she has fully complied with all the provisions of this chapter. After reviewing the map, the Village Board, upon the recommendation of the Plan Commission, shall certify its approval on the face of the map. After receiving approval by the Village Board, such maps shall be certified by the Village President, the Village Administrator/Clerk, and the Village Engineer. In addition, dedication of streets and other public areas shall require the owner’s certificate and the mortgagee’s certificate in substantially the same form as required by Wis. Stats. § 236.21(2)(a).
(E) Approval. No certified survey map shall be approved by the Village Board until all required improvements have been installed and until all required fees as provided in § 36.04 have been paid, unless provision for the installation of improvements and payment of fees has been made in an approved subdivider’s agreement.
(F) Recordation. The certified survey map shall only be recorded with the County Register of Deeds after the certificates of the Village Board and the surveyor are placed on the face of the map. The Village Administrator/Clerk shall record the map within 30 days of its approval by the Village Board.
(Prior Code, § 18.07) (Ord. 03-2019, passed 2-14-2019)
DESIGN STANDARDS
(A) In any new subdivision plat or certified survey map, the street layout shall conform to the arrangement, width, and location indicated on the Official Map or Comprehensive Plan of the village. In areas for which such plans have not been completed, the street layout shall recognize the functional classification of the various types of streets and shall be developed and located in proper relation to existing and proposed streets, to the topography, to such natural features as streams and tree growth, to public convenience and safety, to the proposed use of the land to be served by such streets, and to the most advantageous development of adjoining areas.
(B) The subdivision shall be designed so as to provide each lot with satisfactory access to a public street. In addition:
(1) Arterial streets. Arterial streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready access to center of employment, centers of governmental activity, community shopping areas, community recreation, and points beyond the boundaries of the community. They shall also be properly integrated with and related to the existing and proposed system of arterial streets and highways and shall be, insofar as practicable, continuous and in alignment with existing or planned streets with which they are to connect;
(2) Collector streets. Collector streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready collection of traffic from residential areas and conveyance of this traffic to the major street and highway system and shall be properly related to the mass transportation system, to special traffic generators such as schools, churches, shopping centers, and other concentrations of population, and to the major streets to which they connect;
(3) Local streets. Local streets shall be arranged to conform to the topography, to discourage use by through traffic, to permit the design of efficient storm and sanitary sewerage systems, and to require the minimum street area necessary to provide safe and convenient access to abutting property;
(4) Proposed streets. Proposed streets shall extend to the boundary lines of the tract being subdivided unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions or unless, in the opinion of the Village Board, such extension is not necessary or desirable for the coordination of the layout of the subdivision or for the advantageous development of the adjacent tracts;
(5) Arterial street and highway protection. Whenever the proposed subdivision contains or is adjacent to an arterial street or highway, adequate protection of residential properties, limitation of access, and separation of through and local traffic shall be provided by reversed frontage with screen planting or an earth berm contained in a nonaccess reservation along the rear or side property line, or by the use of frontage streets;
(6) Stream or lake shores. Stream or lake shores shall have a minimum of 66 feet of public access platted to the low water mark at intervals of not more than one-half mile as required by Wis. Stats. § 236.16(3);
(7) Reserve strips. Reserve strips shall not be provided on any plat to control access to streets or alleys, except where control of such strips is placed with the Village Board under conditions recommended by the Plan Commission;
(8) Alleys. Alleys shall be provided in commercial and industrial areas for off-street loading and service access of required by the Village Board, but shall not be approved in residential districts. Deadend alleys shall not be approved. Alleys shall not connect to a major thoroughfare; and
(9) Street names. Street names shall not duplicate or be similar to existing street names elsewhere in the village and environs, and existing street names shall be displayed with a sign.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
Whenever the proposed subdivision contains or is adjacent to a limited access highway or railroad right-of-way, the design shall provide the following treatment.
(A) (1) When lots within the proposed subdivision back upon the right-of-way of an existing or proposed limited access highway or a railroad, a planting strip at least 60 feet in depth shall be provided adjacent to the highway or railroad in addition to the normal lot depth.
(2) This strip shall be a part of the platted lots, but shall have the following restriction lettered on the face of the plat: “This strip is reserved for the planting of trees and shrubs; the building of structures and placement of longitudinal easements for utilities hereon is prohibited”.
(B) Commercial and industrial properties shall have provided, on each side of the limited access highway or railroad, streets approximately parallel to and at a suitable distance from such highway or railroad for the appropriate use of the land between such streets and highway or railroad, but not less than 150 feet.
(C) (1) Streets parallel to a limited access highway or railroad right-of-way, when intersecting a high collector street and highway or collector street which crosses said railroad or highway, shall be located at a minimum distance of 250 feet from said highway or railroad right-of-way.
(2) Such distance, where desirable and practicable, shall be determined with due consideration of the minimum distance required for the future separation of grades by means of appropriate approach gradients.
(D) Local streets immediately adjacent and parallel to railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided, and the location of local streets immediately adjacent to high collector streets and highways and to railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided in residential areas.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
(A) The minimum right-of-way and roadway width of all proposed streets and alleys shall be as specified by the Comprehensive Plan, the plan component, or the Official Map of the village, or if no width is specified therein, the minimum widths shall be as shown in § 153.068.
(B) Cross-sections for freeways, expressways, and parkways shall be based upon detailed engineering studies.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
(A) Minimum cross-section table.
Type of Street or Public Way | Minimum Row to Be Dedicated | Minimum Dimensions |
Type of Street or Public Way | Minimum Row to Be Dedicated | Minimum Dimensions |
Urban Streets | ||
Arterial divided with median | 100 ft.+ | Dual 24 ft. pavement + V.F. curbs |
18 ft. median | ||
6 ft. tree bank/curb lawn | ||
5 ft. sidewalk | ||
1 ft. outside sidewalk | ||
Arterial undivided | 100 ft.+ | 62 ft. pavement |
(14 ft. center turn lane) | ||
10.5 ft. tree bank/curb lawn | ||
5 ft. sidewalk | ||
1 ft. outside sidewalk | ||
Collector | 66 ft. | 24 ft. pavement drive lanes |
16 ft. pavement park lanes | ||
30 ft. vertical face curbs | ||
5 ft. tree bank/curb lawn | ||
4.5 ft. sidewalks | ||
1 ft. outside sidewalk | ||
Minor | 66 ft. | 24 ft. pavement drive lanes |
7 ft. pavement park lane | ||
30 ft. vertical face curb | ||
6 ft. and 13 ft. tree bank | ||
4.5 ft. sidewalk | ||
1.0 ft. outside sidewalk | ||
Rural Streets | ||
Arterial divided with median | 100 ft.+ | Dual 28 ft. pavement (24 ft.+ 4 ft. pedestrian way) |
4 ft. inside shoulder | ||
10 ft. median | ||
8 ft. outer shoulder | ||
15 ft. to ditchline | ||
(5 ft. + 10 ft. easement) | ||
Collector | 100 ft.+ | Undivided |
70 ft. pavement | ||
(includes 14 ft. center turn lane and 2 at 4 ft. pedestrian ways) 8 ft. shoulder | ||
17 ft. to ditch line | ||
(7 ft. + 10 ft. easement) | ||
Collector | 66 ft. | 32 ft. pavement |
(24 ft. + 4 ft. pedestrian way) 6 ft. shoulder | ||
6 ft. to ditchline | ||
11 ft. backslope | ||
(5 ft. + 6 ft. easement) | ||
Collector | 80 ft. | 32 ft. pavement |
(24 ft. + 2 at 4 ft. pedestrian ways) | ||
8 ft. shoulder | ||
8 ft. to ditchline | ||
8 ft. backslope | ||
(+ 6 ft. easement - fill section) | ||
Minor | 66 ft. | 28 ft. pavement |
(24 ft. + 4 ft. pedestrian way) | ||
l ft. and 5 ft. shoulder | ||
8 ft. to ditchline 8 ft. backslope | ||
(B) Cul-de-sac streets designed to have one end permanently closed shall not exceed 500 feet in length. All cul-de-sac streets designed to have one end permanently closed shall terminate in a circular turnaround having a minimum right-of-way radius of 66 feet and a minimum back of curb radius of 47.5 feet or 45 feet for rural cross-section streets.
(C) Temporary termination of streets at the boundary of a subdivision that are intended to be extended at a later date and where more than four dwelling units have driveway access to such street, or when the nearest intersection to the boundary of the subdivision is greater than 200 feet, shall be accomplished with a temporary cul-de-sac in accordance with the standards set forth above or by construction of a temporary “T” turnaround having a crossbar paved width of at least 22 feet and a length of 60 feet, with the option subject to the approval of the Plan Commission and the Village Board.
(D) Unless necessitated by exceptional topography subject to the approval of the Plan Commission, the maximum centerline grade of any street or public way shall not exceed the following:
(1) Arterial streets: 6%;
(2) Collector streets: 8%;
(3) Local streets, alleys, and frontage streets: 10%;
(4) Pedestrian ways: 10%, unless steps of acceptable design are provided; and
(5) The grade of any street shall in no case exceed 10% or be less than 0.5%.
(E) Street grades shall be established wherever practicable so as to avoid excessive grading, the promiscuous removal of ground cover and tree growth, and general leveling of topography. All changes in street grades shall be connected by vertical curves of a minimum length equivalent in feet to 15 times the algebraic difference in the rates of grade for all major streets, and one-half this minimum for all other streets.
(F) (1) When a continuous street centerline deflects at any one point by more than ten degrees, a circular curve shall be introduced having a radius of curvature on said centerline of not less than the following:
(a) Arterial streets and highways: 500 feet;
(b) Collector streets: 300 feet; and
(c) Local streets: 100 feet.
(2) A tangent at least 100 feet in length shall be provided between reserve curves on arterial and collector streets.
(G) Where, on the date of enactment of this chapter, an existing dedicated or platted half street is adjacent to the tract being subdivided, the other half of the street shall be dedicated by the subdivider. The platting of half streets is not permitted.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
(A) Streets shall intersect each other at as nearly right angles as topography and other limiting factors of good design permit.
(B) In addition:
(1) The number of streets converging at one intersection shall be reduced to a minimum, preferably not more than two;
(2) The number of intersections along arterial streets and highways shall be held to a minimum. Wherever practicable, the distance between such intersections shall not be less than 750 feet;
(3) Intersections on local streets shall be offset at least 250 feet measured from the centerlines of the two streets;
(4) Property lines at street intersections shall be rounded with a minimum radius of 20 feet or of a greater radius when required by the Plan Commission, or shall be terminated by a straight line through the points of tangency of an arc having a radius of 15 feet; and
(5) Local streets shall not necessarily continue across arterial or collector streets, but if the centerlines of such local streets approach the major streets from opposite sides within 300 feet of each other, measured along the centerline of the arterial or collector street, then the location shall be so adjusted that the adjournment across the arterial or collector street is continuous and a jog is avoided.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
(A) The widths, lengths, and shapes of blocks shall be suited to the planned use of the land, zoning requirements, need for convenient access, control and safety of street traffic, and the limitations and opportunities of topography.
(B) In addition:
(1) The length of blocks in residential areas shall not, as a general rule, be less than 400 feet nor more than 1,200 feet in length unless otherwise dictated by exceptional topography or other limiting factors of good design;
(2) Pedestrian ways are generally not desired and should be avoided; however, pedestrian ways of not less than ten feet in width may be required near the center and entirely across any block over 900 feet in length where deemed essential by the Plan Commission to provide adequate pedestrian circulation or access to schools, parks, shopping centers, churches, or transportation facilities;
(3) The width of blocks shall be wide enough to provide for two tiers of lots of appropriate depth except where otherwise required to separate residential development from through traffic. Width of lots or parcels reserved or laid out for commercial or industrial use shall be adequate to provide for off-street service and parking required by the use contemplated and the area zoning restrictions for such use; and
(4) Utility easements. See § 153.073.
(Prior Code, § 18.08)
(A) The size, shape, and orientation of lots shall be appropriate for the location of the subdivision and for the type of development and use contemplated.
(B) The lots should be designed to provide an aesthetically pleasing building site and a proper architectural setting for the building contemplated. In addition:
(1) Side lot lines shall be at approximately right angles to straight street lines or radial to curved street lines on which the lots face. Lot lines shall follow municipal boundary lines rather than cross them;
(2) Double frontage and reverse frontage lots shall be prohibited except where necessary to provide separation of residential development from through traffic or to overcome specific disadvantages of topography and orientation;
(3) Subject to the provision in § 155.026(B), every lot shall front or abut for a distance of at least 60 feet;
(4) Area and dimensions of lots shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 155;
(5) Depth of lots shall be a minimum of 100 feet, excessive depth in relation to width shall be avoided and a proportion of two to one shall be considered a desirable ratio under normal conditions. Depth of lots or parcels reserved or laid out for commercial or industrial use shall be adequate to provide for off-street service and parking required by the use contemplated;
(6) Width of lots shall conform to the requirements of Chapter 155;
(7) Corner lots shall have an extra width of ten feet to permit adequate building setbacks from side streets; and
(8) Lands lying between the meander line and the water’s edge and any otherwise unplatted lands which lie between a proposed subdivision and the water’s edge shall be included as part of lots, outlots, or public dedications in any plat abutting a lake or stream.
(Prior Code, § 18.08) (Ord. 2-02, passed 1-24-2002)
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