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r 75.06 DEFINITIONS. For the purpose of this chapter certain words or phrases used herein are defined as follows: (1) Certified survey map. A map of land division, not a subdivision, prepared in accordance with section 236.34 of the Wis. Stats. and in full compliance with the applicable provision of this chapter. A certified survey map has the same legal force and effect as a subdivision plat. (2) Committee. The Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee. (4) Extraterritorial plat approval jurisdiction. The unincorporated area within three (3) miles of the city limits of a city of the first, second or third class if the city has a subdivision ordinance or official map, or within one and one half (1%) miles of the corporate limits of a city of the fourth class or a village, if the city or village has a subdivision ordinance or official map. (5) Land divider. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity requesting review or action on a land division. (6) Land division. A division of a parcel of land which is not a subdivision and which creates less than five Tots, parcels or building sites of 35 acres each or less in area, regardless of whether the act of division also creates one or more lots, parcels or building sites on 35 acres or more. (7) Master plan. A plan for guiding and shaping the growth or development of Dane County, or of a community or area in Dane County, which has been adopted by a governmental unit of Dane County and whose preparation is authorized by the Wis. Stats. (8) Official map. A map indicating the location, width, extent of the existing and proposed streets, highways, parkways, parks and playgrounds adopted by the municipalities in Dane County, in accordance with section 62.23(6) of the Wis. Stats. (9) Parcel. Contiguous lands under the control of a subdivider or subdividers not separated by streets, highways or railroad rights -of -way. (10) Plat. A map of a subdivision. (11) Shoreland area. All lands within 300 feet of a shoreline of navigable rivers or streams and 1,000 feet of the shoreline of navigable lakes and ponds or flowages to the landward side of the flood plain, whichever is greater. For the purpose of this chapter, the term navigable waters applies to all nonintermittent streams indicated on the 7.5 minute series of the United States Geological Survey Quandrangles, all lakes and all ponds over 15 acres in surface area as listed in "Surface Water Resources of 75.06(1) — (13) Dane County," published by the Wisconsin Conservation Commission, 1961. (12) Street. A public way for vehicular or pedestrian and vehicular traffic. (a) Arterial streets and highways: streets which provide for rapid movement of concentrated volumes of traffic over relatively long distances between the activity areas. (b) Principal arterials: streets serving the major interstate and interregional traffic corridors. These routes provide the highest level of mobility under a high degree of access control. (c) Primary arterials: streets serving major regions or connecting several significant cities and intercommunity corridors within the metropolitan area. These routes provide for a high degree of mobility under a high degree of access control. (d) Standard arterials: streets which more commonly provide for intermediate length trips, thus serving through traffic movement in trade areas or feeding traffic to the primary and principal arterials from lower activity areas not served by such routes. (e) Collector streets: streets which provide for moderate speed movement within large areas. They are basically local streets which usually, because of more directness of routing and higher capacity than other local streets, receive higher volumes of traffic to be distributed from or collected toward nearby arterial streets. (f) Connectois: streets which perform a semi - arterial function as well as serving as distribution and land access streets. (g) Distributors: streets which gather and distribute traffic from and to the local streets and adjacent lands. (h) Local streets: streets designed for low speeds and volumes which provide access from low traffic generating areas to collector and arterial streets. (i) Marginal access streets: streets which are parallel and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties. (j) Alleys: streets which provide secondary means of access for vehicular services to the back or side of property otherwise abutting a street. (k) Cul-de-sac streets: streets dosed at one end with turn-arounds. (L) Dead-end streets: streets closed at one end without turn-arounds. (13) Subdivider. Any person, firm, corporation or other entity requesting review or action on a subdivision. Page 75-2 rev. 013109