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- 6 - IV. Procedure for Review by Approving Authorities A. Approving authorities have 90 days (used to be 40) to conditionally approve or reject preliminary plat; 236. 11(1)(a) and 60 days to reject final plat, 236. 11(2) . B. Rejection must be in writing stating reasons and if not timely, the plat is deemed approved. C. Mere tabling of preliminary plat within specified time period was not sufficient and the plat was deemed approved notwithstanding alleged non-conformity to official map. State ex rel. Lozloff v. Board of Trustees, Id. D. Failure of city council to reject final plat within 60 days deemed approval, but did not authorize use of subdivided land contrary to existing zoning or other pertinent ordinances. State ex rel. Callan v. Barg (1958), 3 Wis. 2d 488, 89 N.W. 2d 267. E. Town Board rejection of a plat where it acted in excess of its powers, i.e. , plat did not conflict with existing written ordinance, master plan, or official map was invalid and plat was deemed approved. Town had no zoning. State ex rel. Columbia Corp. v. Town Bd. of Town of Pacific (App. 1979) 92 Wis. 2d 767, 286 N.W. 2d 130. V. Local Subdivision Regulations under Sec. 236.45 A. Sec. 236.45(2) authorizes cities, villages, towns and counties to adopt subdivision regulations which may include a more restrictive definition of what constitutes a subdivision, and may provide other surveying, monumenting, mapping, and approving requirements for such division. May also prohibit the division of land to carry out the purposes of sec. 236.45(1) . B. Munic. subdivision regulations may apply extraterritorially, sec. 236.45(3). C. Procedure for adoption in 236.45(4) requires recommendations by planning agency and adoption by governing body after public hearing with class 2 notice. Approval of individual plats does not require a public hearing. D. Subdivision requiring subdivider to pay $200 per lot in lieu of dedication of land for school, park or recreation needs where dedication of land not feasible is proper under power granted by 236.45 to local government to legislate more intensively in the field of subdivision control than the legislature had provided for the state at large. Jordan v. Village of Menomonee Falls (1965) 28 Wis. 2d 608, 137 N.W. 2d 442. Imposition of fees for school land and for land in lieu- of actual dedication upheld as reasonable condition for rezoning from general business to residential planned development district. Black v. City of Waukesha (App. 1985) 125 Wis. 2d 254. E. A broad area of discretion is reserved to city under 236.45 in implementing subdivision control if ordinance is not contrary to legislative standards. Hence city could grant a variance from its subdivision ordinance to accommodate a "cluster subdivision." City of Mequon v. Lake Estates Co. (1971) 52 Wis. 2d 765, 190 N.W. 2d 912.