Section Trans 233.02 - Basic principlesLand subdivision tends to affect highways by generating traffic, increasing vehicular parking requirements, reducing sight distance, increasing driveways and other access points and, in general, impairing safety and impeding traffic movements. To control these tendencies and to carry out the purposes of ch. 236, Stats., the commission promulgates the following basic requirements in this section and the specific rules of subsequent sections of these rules and regulations:
(1) Local traffic generated in subdivisions abutting on a state trunk highway shall be served by an internal street system of adequate capacity, intersecting and connecting with state trunk highways at a minimum number of points and in a manner which is safe, convenient, and economical to maintain and regulate. (2) Subdivisions shall be so laid out that the individual lots or parcels do not require direct vehicular access to the highway. (3) To accomplish reasonable functional integration and coordination of roadways and private driveways: (a) The commission, particularly in the absence of a local comprehensive general or master plan or official map, will consider not only the immediate plat before it, but also its relationship to the access requirements of adjacent and contiguous subdivisions and unplatted lands; (b) These rules and regulations shall be applicable not only to the lands proposed to be subdivided but also to all lands owned by, or under option (formal or informal), contract or lease to the subdivider and which are contiguous to and adjoin the land being subdivided. (4) Setbacks from the highway shall be provided as hereinafter specified. (5) The subdivision layout shall include provision for surface drainage in such a manner that the existing highway drainage system is not adversely affected. Wis. Admin. Code Department of Transportation Trans 233.02
Cr. Register, September, 1956, No. 9, eff. 10-1-56.Cr. Register, January, 1999, No. 517, eff. 2-1-99; am. (intro.), Register, January, 2001, No. 541, eff. 2-1-01.