§ 16.08.010. Definitions.

The following definitions shall be applicable in this title:

"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 city. It has a secondary function of providing access to abutting land.

"Collector street" means a street whose primary function is to carry vehicular traffic between local streets and arterials.

"Commission" means the city plan commission created by the common council of the City of Juneau pursuant to Section 62.23, Wisconsin Statutes.

"Comprehensive plan" means the extensively developed plan, also called "The Master Plan for Juneau, Wisconsin," adopted by the commission and certified to the city common council pursuant to Section 62.23, Wisconsin Statutes, including 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.

"County planning agency" means the committee created by the county board of supervisors pursuant to Section 59.97, Wisconsin Statutes and authorized to plan land use within the county.

"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" means where title 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 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 one and one-half miles of the city.

"Flag lot" means a lot having a long thin ("flagpole") of land connecting to the road to provide legal access and frontage and with its buildable area located generally behind building sites fronting on the same street.

"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. "Public improvement" means any sanitary sewer, storm sewer, electrical facilities, open channel, watermain, roadway, park, parkway, public access, sidewalk, pedestrian way, planting strip, or other facility for which the city may ultimately assume the responsibility for maintenance and preparation.

"Local street" means a street where the principal purpose is to provide access to adjacent properties. Local streets are not conducive to through traffic movement.

"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 title and any applicable zoning ordinance.

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

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

"Lot lines" means the peripheral boundaries of a lot as defined in this chapter.

Lot, Reversed Corner. "Reversed corner lot" 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. "Through lot" 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 width" means the width of a parcel of land measured along the minimum front setback line.

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

"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 means 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 plan of subdivision is presented to the plan commission and city common council for approval.

"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 the block, lot or outlot is not a replat.

"Rural street section" means a street section which is designed to accommodate stormwater drainage by means of shallow ditches which are parallel to the street surface on both sides. Drainage culverts are typically required at street intersections and at all driveways.

"Shorelands" means: (1) lands within one thousand (1,000) feet of the ordinary high-water mark of navigable lakes, ponds or flowages, or (2) lands within three hundred (300) feet of the ordinary high-water mark of navigable rivers or streams or to the landward side of the floodplain, whichever distance 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; 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.

"Urban street section" means a street section that is designed for a hard street surface, curb/gutter, sidewalk, driveway aprons and all related items. In this design there are no stormwater drainage ditches running parallel to the street and all stormwater is transported by curb/gutter and underground storm sewer. In a preliminary state (when curb/gutter is not installed) the storm water shall be transported at the edge of the street surface (each side) to storm inlets. This shall be accomplished by properly grading the street surface and the terrace area.

"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" means the rules of administrative agencies having rule-making authority in Wisconsin, published in a loose-leaf, continual revision system as directed by Section 35.93 and Chapter 227, Wisconsin Statutes, including subsequent amendments to those rules.

(Ord. 135-2006 (part); Ord. B-1998 (part): amended during 1997 codification; prior code § 10-3-2)