Brown County, WI permit planning guide

Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

with the subsection. (d) The following table shall be considered in nomenclature: Street Type Dead End Curving Street Straight Street Short Streets Place Court Circle Crescent Lane Terrace Way Lane Row Long Streets -- Drive Road Avenue Street (e) The term boulevard shall be reserved for streets that are designed with medians separating lanes of traffic. 21(43) 21.62 BLOCKS. (1) The lengths, widths, and shapes of blocks shall be appropriate for the locality and the type of development contemplated, but block lengths in residential areas shall not exceed 1,500 feet between right-of-way lines. (2) Planning Commission staff may require pedestrian easements or right-of-ways not less than 15 feet wide at the end of cul-de-sacs, through the center of blocks more than 900 feet long, and where deemed essential to provide circulation or access to schools, parks, playgrounds, shopping centers, transportation, and other community facilities. 21.63 LOTS. (1) The lot size, width, depth, shape and orientation shall be sufficient to provide reasonable developable area that is not restricted by easements,

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Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

ties shall not be less than 20,000 square feet in area. Since the shape of individual lots may render portions unusable for installing private onsite wastewater treatment systems or providing adequate separating distances between them and watercourses or water wells, any part of a lot less than 30 feet wide or separated by a water body will not be used in computing the minimum lot area. 21(44) (c) Zero lot line lots shall conform to all requirements of the local municipality zoning ordinance. Zero lot line developments shall only be allowed in municipalities that have adopted a zero lot line zoning ordinance, planned unit development, or variance. (5) Lot Drainage. Lots shall be laid out so as to provide positive drainage away from all buildings, and individual lot drainage shall be coordinated with the stormwater management plan for the area. Drainage shall be designated so as to avoid concentration of storm drainage water from each lot to adjacent lots. (a) The following shall be placed on the face of all subdivision plats and certified survey maps: “RESTRICTIVE COVENANT: The land on all side and rear lot lines of all lots shall

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Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

g Commission staff may require easements for electric power and communications facilities, storm and sanitary sewers, tree planting, drainage and flood water, gas, water, cable television lines, or other utility lines. Such easements shall be placed so as not to interfere unreasonably with the use and enjoyment of the property for residential or other purposes. 21(45) (2) Utility easements and drainage easements shall be separately located, unless specifically approved by the Planning Commission staff. (3) Whenever any easement is created for specific public improvements or otherwise conveys an interest to a specific individual, entity, or public body, the recipient or beneficiary of such easement shall be clearly noted on the plat or certified survey map. (4) For drainage easements, in the absence of a stated beneficiary, the easement shall be a restriction on the affected property and not a conveyance of interest. (5) Information regarding the rights and responsibilities of the easement holder, terminating or relocating the easement and other information regarding the easement may be included on the

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Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

he subdivider, or agent, in the office of the Register of Deeds of Brown County on accordance with Section 236.25 of the Wisconsin Statutes. 21.50 SURVEYING REQUIREMENTS. All subdivision plats and certified survey maps and land only or building pad style condominiums shall comply with the provisions of Section 236.15 of the Wisconsin Statutes and the following: (1) Tie Requirements. 21(38) (a) In all cases, tie requirements shall include the bearing and distance between points and a description of the monument material. (b) The plat or certified survey map shall be tied to two adjacent corners, as monumented by the Brown County Surveyor, of the Federal Land Survey System corners. (c) If such plat or certified survey map falls within the Williams Grant or other Federal Survey Lots, it shall be tied to two monumented corners within or along the Grant or Lot. (d) If such plat or certified survey map falls within the Private Claims of Green Bay, it shall be tied to one monumented corner of the Private Claim and one other monumented point along the Private Claim line in which the survey lies. If a second mo

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Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

e an identification cap that identifies at least the registration number or company name of the surveyor who set such monument. (d) Monuments required in Section. 236.15 (1)(c) of the Wisconsin Statutes shall be placed at the unit corners on a land only or building pad style condominium when the limits of unit are defined as a tract of land and not a structure. (3) Closure tolerance. 21(39) (a) All mapped boundaries shall close to a tolerance of 1 part in 20,000. (b) No closures shall be greater than 0.03 feet. (4) Bearings. (a) All bearings expressed on the plat or certified survey map shall be represented in the Wisconsin County Coordinate System for Brown County, unless waived by the county surveyor. The mathematical parameters of this system are available from the Wisconsin State Cartographer. (b) If a plat or certified survey map falls “entirely within” a previously recorded subdivision plat or certified survey map, the bearing may be referenced thereto only when the bearings agree with all of the previously mapped information. (5) Boundaries based on section protractions. (a) When the boundaries of a plat or certified su

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Brown County Code Ch 21 — Subdivisions (2023-04-21)

event. (iv) Provide an 80% reduction of sediment loadings which result from the 1-year, 24-hour storm event with no sediment resuspension. (n) Offsite facilities if increased surface water runoff from the site is proposed to be managed through offsite facilities such as a regional detention pond. Increased flows from the development may be accepted if approved by the municipality. 21(47) (o) Stormwater drainage easements shall be provided to accommodate present and future stormwater runoff. (p) Design. The design of stormwater management facilities shall be based upon local requirements, if present. If local requirements are not present, the following concepts shall be followed. In designing storm drainage facilities, special consideration shall be given to the prevention of soil erosion, siltation of surface waters, and excess runoff onto adjacent properties. Infiltration, grassed swales, and other open drainage channels are generally preferred over storm sewers. The use of multiple treatment facilities, such as vegetative buffers leading to grass swales leading to wetlands leading to detention ponds, is preferred for water quality benef

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