Village of Random Lake Ordinance
CHAPTER 19 - SUBDIVISION CODE
19.03 DEFINITIONS.
The terms used in this chapter shall
be defined as follows:
(1) AREA DEVELOPMENT PLAN. A map adopted by the Village Board indicating
the physical layout of future streets, alleys, cul-de-sacs, drainage
ways and easements.
(2) ALLEY. A public or private way which provides secondary access to
a lot, block or parcel of land.
(3) 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.
(4) BUILDING SETBACK LINE. The distance from the boundaries of a lot
or center line of a street within which structures or buildings shall
not be erected.
(5) CERTIFIED SURVEY MAP. A map of a subdivision of land prepared in
accordance with §236.34, Wis. Stats.
- COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. The official guide for the physical, social
and economic growth of the Village of Random Lake or its constituent
parts, properly enacted or adopted according to statute, which is now
or may hereafter be in effect.
- CONDOMINIUM. The ownership of single units in a multi-unit
structure or of single units on a tract with more than one such unit
where the land or other common areas and facilities are owned jointly.
(8) CONSTRUCTION YEAR. A period of time commencing on February
1 and ending on the next January 31.
(9) CROSSWALK. A public right of way traversing a block for the purpose
of providing pedestrian access.
(10) CUL-DE-SAC. A short minor street having one end open to motor traffic
and the other end terminated by a vehicular turnaround.
(11) DEADEND STREET. A street having only one outlet for vehicular traffic
and no vehicular turnaround.
(12) DEVELOPMENT. The act of constructing buildings or installing site
improvements.
(13) DOUBLE FRONTAGE LOT. A lot having frontage on opposite property
boundaries with public streets.
(14) 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.
(15) FINAL PLAT. The map or drawing of a subdivision prepared in compliance
with the provisions of Ch. 236, Wis. Stats., and any accompanying material
as described in sec. 19.06 of this chapter.
(16) FRONTAGE. The length of the front property line of the lot, lots
or tract of land abutting a public street, road, highway or rural right
of way.
(17) GRADIENT. The slope of a road, street or other public way specified
as a percentage.
(18) IMPROVEMENTS, PUBLIC. Any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, drainage
ditch, water main, 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
and operation.
(19) 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.
(20)LOCAL UNIT. A
local unit in this chapter include the County as well as towns, villages
and cities.
(21) LOT. A buildable parcel of land represented and identified
in a subdivision, as defined in sub. (41) below.
(22) LOT SPLIT. A division of land other than a subdivision.
(23) NEIGHBORHOOD UNIT. A residential living environment where the internal
street system discourages through traffic and where major thoroughfares
preferably bound the neighborhood and to provide maximum pedestrial accessibility
to centrally locate community buildings, schools and playgrounds.
Local shops to meet daily household needs are grouped together at accessible
points providing a harmony of design and development.
(24) OFFICIAL MAP. The map of the Village adopted pursuant to the Wisconsin
Statutes showing streets, highways, parkways, parks and playgrounds and
the exterior lines of planned new streets, highways, parkways, parks
or playgrounds.
(25) 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.
(26) PLAT. A map of a subdivision.
(27) PRELIMINARY PLAT. A map showing the salient features of a proposed
subdivision submitted to the Village Board for purposes of preliminary
consideration.
(28) REPLAT. The changing of the boundaries of a recorded subdivision
plat or part thereof.
(29) 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.
(30) 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.
(31) ROADWAY. The surface portion of the street available for vehicular
traffic.
(32) 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.
(33) SEWAGE
DISPOSAL SYSTEM, INDIVIDUAL. A
septic tank seep age 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.
(34) 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.
(35) SIDEWALK. That portion of a street or crosswalk way, paved or otherwise
surfaced, intended for pedestrian use only.
(36) 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.
(37) STREET, ARTERIAL. A major, high capacity street designed to carry
large volumes of traffic between various areas of the Village.
(38) 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.
(39) 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.
(40) STREET, MINOR OR LOCAL. A street of limited continuity used primarily
for access to abutting properties and local needs of a neighborhood.
(41) SUBDIVIDER. A person commencing proceedings under the regulations
of this chapter to effect a subdivision of land hereunder for himself
or others.
(42) SUBDIVISION. Any division of a lot, parcel or tract of land by
the owner thereof or his agent for the purpose of sale or building development
where:
(a) The act of division creates 2 or more parcels or building sites
of 5 acres each or less- in area; or
(b) Two or more parcels or building sites of 5 acres each or less in
area are created by successive divisions within a period of 5 years.
(43) SUBDIVISION DESIGN STANDARDS. The basic land planning standards
established as guides for the preparation of plats.
(44) SURVEYOR. A land surveyor duly registered in the State.
(45) THOROUGHFARE. A street with a high degree of continuity, including
collector streets, major arterial streets and limited access highways.
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