§ 62-131. Street layouts.

(a)

Generally. In any new subdivision, the street layout shall conform to the arrangement, width and location indicated on the official map or comprehensive plan of the county or community. 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. The subdivision shall be designed so as to provide each lot with satisfactory access to a public street.

(b)

High collector streets. High collector streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready access to centers of employment, centers of governmental activity, shopping areas, recreation areas, and points beyond the boundaries of the community. They shall also be properly integrated with and related to the existing and proposed system of major streets and highways and shall be, insofar as practicable, continuous and in alignment with existing or planned streets with which they are to connect.

(c)

Low collector streets. Low collector streets shall be arranged so as to provide ready collection of traffic from residential areas and conveyance of this 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, and shopping centers and other concentrations of population and to the major streets into which they feed.

(d)

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.

(e)

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.

(f)

High collector street and highway protection. Whenever the proposed subdivision contains or is adjacent to a major 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 contained in a nonaccess reservation along the rear property line, or by the use of frontage streets.

(g)

Stream or lake shores. Stream or lake shores shall have 60 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).

(h)

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.

(i)

Alleys. Alleys may be provided in commercial and industrial districts for off-street loading and service access unless otherwise required by the village board, but shall not be approved in residential districts unless a continuation of an existing system. Dead-end alleys shall not be approved, and alleys shall not connect to a major thoroughfare.

(j)

Street names. Street names shall not duplicate or be similar to existing street names within five miles of the boundary of the community, and existing street names shall be projected wherever possible. The installation of street signs shall be the responsibility of the village.

(k)

Limited-access highway or railroad right-of-way. 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:

(1)

Subdivisions. 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 30 feet in depth shall be provided adjacent to the highway or railroad in addition to the normal lot depth. 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 reserved for the planting of trees and shrubs, the building of structures hereon prohibited."

(2)

Commercial and industrial districts. Commercial and industrial districts 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.

(3)

Parallel streets. Streets parallel to a limited-access highway or railroad right-of-way, when intersecting a major street and highway or collector street that crosses the railroad or highway, shall be located at a minimum distance of 250 feet from the highway or railroad right-of-way. 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.

(4)

Local streets. Local streets immediately adjacent and parallel to railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided, and location of local streets immediately adjacent to collector streets and highways and railroad rights-of-way shall be avoided in residential areas.

(Ord. of 2-21-94(1), § 7)