236.13
236.13(1) (1) Approval of the preliminary or final plat shall be conditioned upon compliance with:
236.13(1)(a) (a) The provisions of this chapter.
236.13(1)(b) (b) Any municipal, town, or county ordinance that is in effect when the subdivider submits a preliminary plat, or a final plat if no preliminary plat is submitted.
236.13(1)(d) (d) The rules of the department of safety and professional services relating to lot size and lot elevation necessary for proper sanitary conditions in a subdivision not served by a public sewer, where provision for public sewer service has not been made.
236.13(1)(e) (e) The rules of the department of transportation relating to provision for the safety of entrance upon and departure from the abutting state trunk highways or connecting highways and for
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236.13
236.13(1) (1) Approval of the preliminary or final plat shall be conditioned upon compliance with:
236.13(1)(a) (a) The provisions of this chapter.
236.13(1)(b) (b) Any municipal, town, or county ordinance that is in effect when the subdivider submits a preliminary plat, or a final plat if no preliminary plat is submitted.
236.13(1)(d) (d) The rules of the department of safety and professional services relating to lot size and lot elevation necessary for proper sanitary conditions in a subdivision not served by a public sewer, where provision for public sewer service has not been made.
236.13(1)(e) (e) The rules of the department of transportation relating to provision for the safety of entrance upon and departure from the abutting state trunk highways or connecting highways and for the preservation of the public interest and investment in such highways.
236.13(2) (2)
236.13(2)(ad) (ad) In this subsection:
236.13(2)(ad)1. 1. “Binder course” means the non-surface-level course that is attached to the packed-level gravel course.
236.13(2)(ad)2. 2. “Land disturbing activity” means any man-made alteration of the land surface resulting in a change in the topography or existing vegetative or nonvegetative soil cover that may result in runoff and lead to an increase in soil erosion and movement of sediment into waters of this state. “Land disturbing activity” includes clearing and grubbing, demolition, excavating, pit trench dewatering, filling, and grading activities.
236.13(2)(ad)3. 3. “Total cost to complete a public improvement” includes the cost to make and install storm water facilities. “Total cost to complete a public improvement” does not include any of the following:
236.13(2)(am) (am)
236.13(2)(am)1. 1.
[Note: Effective date note NOTE: Subd. 1. a. is shown as amended eff. 7-1-26 by 2025 Wis. Act 68 . Prior to 7-1-26 it reads:]
236.13(2)(am)1d. 1d. The estimated total cost to complete the required public improvements under subd. 1. shall be determined as follows:
236.13(2)(am)1m. 1m.
236.13(2)(am)2. 2. For purposes of subd. 1. , public improvements reasonably necessary for a project or a phase of a project are considered to be substantially completed upon the installation of the asphalt or concrete binder course on roads to be dedicated or, if the required public improvements do not include a road to be dedicated, at the time that 90 percent of the public improvements by cost are completed.
236.13(2)(am)3. 3.
[Note: Effective date note NOTE: Subd. 3. b. is shown as amended eff. 7-1-26 by 2025 Wis. Act 68 . Prior to 7-1-26 it reads:]
236.13(2)(b) (b) Any city or village may require as a condition for accepting the dedication of public streets, alleys or other ways, or for permitting private streets, alleys or other public ways to be placed on the official map, that designated facilities shall have been previously provided without cost to the municipality, but which are constructed according to municipal specifications and under municipal inspection, such as, without limitation because of enumeration, sewerage, water mains and laterals, storm water management or treatment facilities, grading and improvement of streets, alleys, sidewalks and other public ways, street lighting or other facilities designated by the governing body, or that a specified portion of such costs shall be paid in advance as provided in s. 66.0709 .
236.13(2)(c) (c) Any county, town, city or village may require as a condition of approval that the subdivider be responsible for the cost of any necessary alterations of any existing utilities which, by virtue of the platting or certified survey map, fall within the public right-of-way.
236.13(2)(d) (d) As a further condition of approval, any county, town, city or village may require the dedication of easements by the subdivider for the purpose of assuring the unobstructed flow of solar or wind energy across adjacent lots in the subdivision.
236.13(2m) (2m) As a further condition of approval when lands included in the plat lie within 500 feet of the ordinary high-water mark of any lake, any navigable stream, or any other body of navigable water or if land in the proposed plat involves lake or navigable stream shorelands referred to in s. 236.16 , the department of natural resources, to prevent pollution of navigable waters, or the department of safety and professional services, to protect the public health and safety, may require assurance of adequate drainage areas for private on-site wastewater treatment systems and building setback restrictions, or provisions by the owner for public sewage disposal facilities for waters of the state, as defined in s. 281.01 (18) , industrial wastes, as defined in s. 281.01 (5) , and other wastes, as defined in s. 281.01 (7) . The public sewage disposal facilities may consist of one or more systems as the department of natural resources or the department of safety and professional services determines on the basis of need for prevention of pollution of the waters of the state or protection of public health and safety.
236.13(3) (3) No approving authority or agency having the power to approve or object to plats shall condition approval upon compliance with, or base an objection upon, any requirement other than those specified in this section.
236.13(4) (4) Where more than one governing body or other agency has authority to approve or to object to a plat and the requirements of such bodies or agencies are conflicting, the plat shall comply with the most restrictive requirements.
236.13(5) (5)
236.13(5)(a) (a) Any person aggrieved by an objection to a plat or a failure to approve a plat may appeal therefrom as provided in s. 62.23 (7) (e) 10. a. , 14. and 15. , within 30 days of notification of the rejection of the plat. For the purpose of an appeal under this paragraph, the term “board of appeals” means an “approving authority”. Where the failure to approve is based on an unsatisfied objection, the agency making the objection shall be made a party to the action. The court shall direct that the plat be approved if it finds that the action of the approving authority or objecting agency is arbitrary, unreasonable, or discriminatory.
236.13(5)(b) (b) Notwithstanding par. (a) , a decision of an approving authority on an application for an approval, as defined in s. 781.10 (1) (a) , is subject to review under the procedures contained in s. 781.10 .
236.13(6) (6) An outlot may not be used as a building site unless it is in compliance with restrictions imposed by or under this section with respect to building sites. An outlot may be conveyed regardless of whether it may be used as a building site.