§ 22-3. Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this chapter, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Alley means a public right-of-way which normally affords a secondary means of vehicular access to abutting property.

Arterial street means a street which provides for the movement of relatively heavy traffic to, from or within the village. An arterial street has a secondary function of providing access to abutting land.

Block means an area of land within a subdivision that is entirely bounded by a combination of streets, exterior boundary lines of the subdivision and streams or water bodies.

Collector street means a street which collects and distributes internal traffic within an urban area such as a residential neighborhood, between arterial and local streets. A collector street provides access to abutting property.

Commission means the plan commission created by the village board pursuant to Wis. Stats. § 62.23.

Comprehensive development plan means a comprehensive plan prepared by the village indicating the general locations recommended for the various functional classes of land use, places and structures, and for the general physical development of the village and includes any unit or part of such plan separately adopted and any amendment to such plan or parts thereof.

Cul-de-sac means a short street having but one end open to traffic and the other end being permanently terminated in a vehicular turnaround.

Division of land. Where the title or any part thereof is transferred by the execution of a land contract, an option to purchase, an offer to purchase and acceptance, a deed, or a certified survey, and a division occurs where any of the above transactions change the title from a joint tenancy to a tenancy in common or from tenancy in common to joint tenancy.

Easement means the area of land set aside or over or through which a liberty, privilege or advantage in land, distinct from ownership of the land, is granted to the public or some particular person or part of the public.

Extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction means the unincorporated area within 1½ miles of a fourth-class city or a village and within three miles of all other cities.

Final plat means the final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is presented for approval and which, if approved, will be submitted to the county register of deeds. Said plat must conform to all state laws.

Frontage street means a minor street auxiliary to and located on the side of an arterial street for control of access and for service to the abutting development.

Improvement, public, means any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, open channel, water main, roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrian way, planting strip or other facility for which the village may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and operation.

Local street means a street of little or no continuity designed to provide access to abutting property and leading into collector streets.

Lot means a parcel of land having frontage on a public street or other officially approved means of access, occupied or intended to be occupied by a principal structure or use and sufficient in size to meet the lot width, lot frontage, lot area, yard, parking area and other open space provisions of this chapter and any applicable zoning ordinance.

Lot, area, means the area contained within the exterior boundaries of a lot excluding streets, easements and land under navigable bodies of water.

Lot, corner, means a lot abutting intersecting streets at their intersection.

Lot, reversed corner, means a corner lot which is oriented so that it has its rear lot line coincident with or parallel to the side lot line of the interior lot immediately to its rear.

Lot, through, means a lot having a pair of opposite lot lines along two more or less parallel public streets and which is not a corner lot. On a through lot, both street lines shall be deemed front lot lines.

Lot lines means the peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined herein.

Lot width means the width of a parcel of land measured along the front building line.

Major thoroughfare means a street used or intended to be used primarily for fast or heavy through traffic. The term "major thoroughfares" includes freeways, expressways and other highways and parkways, as well as arterial streets.

Marginal access street means a street which is parallel to and adjacent to major thoroughfares and which provides access to abutting properties and protection from traffic on the major street.

Minor street means a street used, or intended to be used, primarily for access to abutting properties.

Minor subdivision means the division of land by the owner or subdivider resulting in the creation of not more than four parcels or building sites.

Owner includes the plural as well as the singular and may mean either a natural person, firm, association, partnership, private corporation, public or quasi-public corporation, or combination of these.

Pedestrian pathway means a public way, usually running at right angles to streets, which is intended for the convenience of pedestrians only; it may also provide public right-of-way for utilities.

Plat means the map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plat of subdivision is presented to the village for approval.

Preliminary plat means the preliminary plat map, drawing or chart indicating the proposed layout of the subdivision to be submitted to the village board for their consideration as to compliance with the comprehensive development plan and these regulations along with required supporting data.

Protective covenants means the contracts entered into between private parties which constitute a restriction on the use of all private property within a subdivision for the benefit of the property owners and to provide mutual protection against undesirable aspects of development which would tend to impair stability of values.

Replat means the process of changing, or a map or plat which changes, the boundaries of a recorded subdivision plat or part thereof. The legal dividing of a large block, lot or outlot within a recorded subdivision plat without changing exterior boundaries of said block, lot or outlot is not a replat.

Shorelands means those lands 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.

Subdivider means any person, firm or corporation, or any agent thereof, dividing or proposing to divide land resulting in a subdivision, minor subdivision or replat.

Subdivision means the division of a lot, outlot, parcel, or tract of land by the owner thereof or his agent for the purpose of transfer of ownership or building development where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites of 1½ acres or less in area, or where the act of division creates five or more parcels or building sites by successive division within a period of five years, whether done by the original owner or a successor owner.

Wetlands means those lands which are partially or wholly covered by marshland flora and generally covered with shallow standing water or lands which are wet and spongy due to high-water table.

Wisconsin Administrative Code (Wis. Admin. Code) means the rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority in Wisconsin, published in a looseleaf, continual revision system, as directed by Wis. Stats. ch. 227, and Wis. Stats. § 35.93, including subsequent amendments to those rules.

(Code 1989, § 14-1-2)