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Timestamp: 2017-07-22 14:37:36
Document Index: 31670128

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 15', '§ 66', '§ 66', '§ 66', '§ 8', '§ 10', '§ 66', '§ 8']

Village of Greendale, WI Public Works
Street and sidewalk grades.
Sidewalk construction and repair.
Driveway openings and culverts.
Protection of curbs, gutters and parkways.
Excavation of roads.
Maintenance of unpaved areas.
the Village of Greendale as Ch. 8 of the Code of Ordinances. Amendments
(1) Establishment. The grades of all streets, alleys and sidewalks shall be established and described by the Board and shall be recorded by the Village Clerk-Treasurer in his office. See also § 15.58.
(2) Required. No street, alley or sidewalk shall be worked
until the grade thereof is established.
(3) Altering prohibited. No person shall alter the grade
of any street, alley, sidewalk or public ground, or any part thereof,
unless authorized or instructed to do so by the Board.
(1) Owner to construct. The abutting owner shall build,
repair, construct and perpetually maintain sidewalks along or upon
any street or alley in the Village.
(2) Village Board may order construction. The Village
Board may from time to time by ordinance or resolution establish the
width, determine the material and prescribe the method of construction
of standard sidewalks, and the standard so fixed may be different
for different streets and alleys, and may order sidewalks to be laid
in the same manner provided in § 66.0907, Wis. Stats.
(3) Director of Public Works may order repair. The Director
of Public Works shall have the powers of the Board of Public Works
under § 66.0907, Wis. Stats., and may order the repair or
replacement of any sidewalk which is unsafe, defective or insufficient
in the manner provided therein.
[Amended 2-1-2000 by Ord. No. 772]
(1) Permit required. No person shall construct a driveway
connecting with any improved or unimproved street or alley in the
Village without first obtaining a permit to do so from the Director
of Inspection Services. Application for a permit must be made in writing
upon forms furnished by the Village. Before any work is started, the
contractor shall pay to the Village Clerk-Treasurer a permit and inspection
(2) Supervision. All such work shall be done under the
jurisdiction of the Director of Inspection Services and in accordance
with the ordinances of the Village and the plans and specifications
on file in the office of the Director of Inspection Services.
(3) Where prohibited. Construction or maintenance of a
driveway providing for ingress and egress to any Village traffic street
is hereby prohibited unless other ingress and egress is not available.
(4) Culverts on unimproved streets. No driveway shall
be constructed or maintained connecting with any unimproved street
unless a suitable culvert is first installed across the ditch or swale
of such unimproved street. Such culverts shall be constructed of steel
pipe. The culvert shall have a cross section of not less than that
of a twelve-inch pipe or such greater diameter as the Village Engineer
may determine is necessary to carry the flow of water. The length
of the culvert shall be 20 feet or such greater length as the Director
of Public Works shall determine is necessary having in mind the width
of the driveway and flow of water. The grade for such culverts shall
be established by the Director of Public Works.
(5) Culvert installation and fees. Applicants for a permit
shall be required to pay for the cost of the culvert. All culverts
shall be installed by the property owner under the direction of the
(6) Culverts for existing driveways.
(a) Where the Director of Public Works determines that
to provide for the flow of water a culvert for an existing driveway
is required, the Director of Public Works shall notify in writing
the property owner from whose property the driveway leads to the street
that he will install a suitable culvert at the expense of such property
owner after 10 days from the date of the notice.
(b) The property owner may appeal to the Village Board
from such determination of the Director of Public Works at any time
within the ten-day period. If the property owner fails to appeal within
such time, the determination of the Director of Public Works shall
(7) If the cost of installation of any culvert installed
by the Village shall not be paid to the Village Clerk-Treasurer on
or before December 1 in the year in which such culvert has been installed,
the Director of Public Works shall certify the cost of the installation
of the culvert to the Village Clerk-Treasurer, who shall enter the
same on the tax roll as special taxes against the owner of the property
to which the driveway leads and which benefits by the installation
of the culvert, the same to be collected in all respects as are other
Any person occupying any real estate shall keep
any walk which abuts or is adjacent to the real estate clear of snow
and shall remove any snow within 12 hours after a snowfall. Icy sidewalks
shall be made safe by such person for pedestrian travel. Snow removal
or plowing activities by the Village shall not relieve any person
of the duty of complying with this section. Persons engaged in snow
removal from sidewalks or driveways shall not push, plow or blow snow
onto or across Village roads. If any person fails to comply with this
section, the Village may cause the necessary work to be done and the
cost thereof shall be a lien against the property and shall be inserted
in the tax roll as a special charge against the property. Unoccupied
real estate shall be the responsibility of the property owner.
(1) Prohibited. No person shall encroach upon or obstruct or encumber any street, alley, sidewalk, public grounds or land dedicated to public use, or any part thereof, or permit such encroachment or encumbrance to be placed or remain on any public way adjoining the premises of which he is the owner or occupant, except as provided in Subsection (2).
(2) Exceptions. The prohibition of Subsection (1) shall not apply to the following:
(a) Signs and clocks attached to buildings which project
not more than six feet from the face of such building and which do
not extend at any point lower than 10 feet above the sidewalk, street
(b) Awnings which do not extend at any point lower than
seven feet above the sidewalk, street or alley.
(c) Public utility encroachments duly authorized by state
law or by the Village Board.
(d) Goods, wares, merchandise or fixtures being loaded
or unloaded which do not extend more than three feet on a sidewalk,
provided that such goods, wares, etc., do not remain thereon for more
(e) Temporary encroachments or obstructions authorized
by permit granted pursuant to § 66.0425, Wis. Stats.
(1) No person shall operate any vehicle exceeding 500
pounds in weight across any gutter, curb, parkway between curb and
sidewalk, sidewalk or pedestrian path, except at a permanently established
driveway in the Village, unless such person shall first construct
a suitable temporary way with cross planks. Such planks shall be no
less than two inches thick, eight inches wide, at least two feet longer
than the width of the vehicle that shall operate over them and free
from defects. Such planks shall be laid side by side with not more
than 3/4 inch intervening in such manner as to protect the surface
underneath and shall extend at least 12 inches over and beyond such
gutter, curb, parkway, sidewalk, or pedestrian path on each side thereof.
Such temporary planking shall be removed each day between 6:00 p.m.
(2) During all periods when such temporary way is in place,
danger signs with letters at least four inches in height so placed
as to call the attention of pedestrians to the hazard of the temporary
way shall be erected by the person placing the temporary way.
[Amended by Ord.
No. 740]
(1) No person except a Village employee, county highway
employee, state highway employee, or contractor employed by the Village
shall tear up, alter or work on any street, road or sidewalk in the
Village without a permit from the Director of Public Works.
(2) The Director of Public Works may issue a permit to
any public utility that desires to tear up, repair, alter or work
on any street or sidewalk in the Village for the purpose of making
a utility installation or repairing an installation already made.
Such permit shall require the utility to return such street or sidewalk
to its previous condition.
(3) No person shall obstruct or cause to be obstructed
in any manner any traveled portion of a street or sidewalk except
for an emergency situation without first obtaining a permit from the
Director of Public Works. Any portion of a street or sidewalk which
is obstructed by such permit shall be signed and barricaded in accordance
with the latest Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices for Streets
and Highways prepared by the United States Department of Transportation.
Such permit shall be immediately revoked if the conditions of the
permit are not fully complied with.
(4) The person doing the work contemplated by this section
shall file a certificate of insurance with the Village Clerk-Treasurer
giving evidence of liability insurance in the amount of $1,000,000
bodily injury and property damage aggregate. Such insurance shall
not be canceled or reduced without the insurer giving 10 days' prior
written notice to the Village Clerk-Treasurer. Cancellation or reduction
of insurance shall automatically suspend the permit, and no further
work shall be done under such permit until a new certificate of insurance
complying herewith is filed with the Village Clerk-Treasurer.
(5) A minimum fee of $25 shall be charged for each excavation
permit issued by the Director of Public Works for the issuance of
an excavation permit on any street or sidewalk. The fees obtained
for the issuance of such permits shall be credited to the Greendale
Water Utility and Sanitary Sewer Utility accounts. All costs for permanent
repair necessitated by any excavation shall be the responsibility
of the party taking out the road excavation permit.
(1) Purpose. It is the policy of the Village to regulate
and control the planting, transplanting, removal, maintenance and
protection of trees and shrubs in the Village in order to eliminate
and guard against dangerous conditions which may result in injury
to persons using the streets, alleys and sidewalks or property of
the Village; to promote and enhance the beauty and general welfare
of the Village; to prevent damage to any public sewer, water main,
street, sidewalk or other public property; to protect trees and shrubs
located in public areas from undesirable and unsafe planting, removal,
treatment and maintenance practices; and to guard all trees and shrubs
within the Village against the spread of disease or pests. It is the
intent of the Village Board that the provisions of this section shall
apply to all trees, shrubs and plants growing or hereinafter planted
in or upon any public right-of-way or other premises owned or controlled
by the Village and also to all trees or shrubs growing or to be planted
in or upon any private premises which shall threaten the lives, health,
safety or welfare of the public or of the property owned or controlled
(2) Definitions. Whenever the following words or terms
are used in this section, they shall be construed to have the following
All trees or shrubs located or to be planted on any park,
playground or any other property owned or controlled by the Village
or on any public street, alley, sidewalk or highway within a public
Editor's Note: Original § 8.08(3), Permit required, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Code Adoption Ordinance).
(4) Master street tree list. The Director of Public Works
shall prepare a master street tree list showing the varieties or species
of all acceptable public trees growing or to be planted in the public
right-of-way within the Village. Such list shall be submitted to the
Committee on Public Works, Streets, Roads and Public Utilities of
the Village for its review annually. No person shall hereafter plant
any public tree or shrub in a public place in the Village unless it
is of the species or variety therein designated. The Director of Public
Works may waive the requirements of this subsection in cases where
such waiver is in the public interest or necessitated by the physical
characteristics of the tree or shrub.
(5) Injury to trees and shrubs prohibited. No person shall
do, or cause to be done by others, any of the following acts:
(a) Secure, fasten or run any rope, wire, sign, unprotected
electrical installation or other device or material (except necessary
bracing) to, around or through a tree or shrub.
(b) Break, injure, mutilate, deface, kill, destroy or
permit any fire to burn where it will injure any tree or shrub.
(c) Permit any toxic chemical, gas, smoke, salt brine,
oil or other injurious substance to seep, drain or to be emptied upon
(d) Erect, alter, repair or raze any building or structure
without placing suitable guards around all nearby public trees or
shrubs which may be injured by such operations.
(e) Knowingly permit any unprotected electrical service
wires to come in prolonged contact with any public tree or shrub.
(f) Remove any guard, stake or other device or material
intended for the protection of a public tree or shrub or close or
obstruct any open space about the base of a public tree or shrub designed
to permit access of air, water and fertilizer.
(6) Obstruction of view at intersections prohibited. Notwithstanding
any other provision of this chapter, no person shall maintain, plant
or permit to remain on any private or public premises situated at
the intersection of two or more streets or alleys in the Village any
hedge, tree, shrub or other growth which may obstruct the view of
the operator of any motor vehicle approaching such intersection to
the extent that such operator is unable to observe other vehicles
or pedestrians approaching or crossing the intersection. Any such
hedge, tree, shrub or growth is hereby declared to be a public nuisance.
(7) Authority to preserve or remove public trees and shrubs
and abate public nuisances.
(a) Authority over public trees and shrubs. The Director
of Public Works shall have the authority to plant, trim, spray, preserve,
renew and remove public trees and shrubs or cause such work to be
done as may be necessary to ensure the safety or preserve the symmetry
and beauty of public streets or grounds and to protect the public
sidewalks, streets, sewers and mains from damage or injury.
(b) Authority over private trees and shrubs.
1. Notice to abate nuisances. Whenever the Director of
Public Works shall find on examination that any tree or shrub or part
thereof growing or located upon private premises is a public nuisance
as defined in this section, or which endangers the life, health, safety
or property of the public, or which is infested with parasites or
insect pests or disease which may spread or scatter to public trees
and shrubs, he shall order the owner or his agent in writing that
the nuisance must be sprayed, removed or otherwise abated as directed
in the order within the time specified, which shall not be less than
30 days unless the Director shall determine that immediate correction
or removal is necessary for public safety.
2. Abatement by Village. If the owner of such premises
or his agent shall refuse or neglect to comply with the notice within
the time specified, the Director may cause the nuisance to be sprayed,
removed or otherwise abated. In addition to any penalty imposed, the
cost to the Village for abating the nuisance shall be collected as
a debt from the owner, occupant or person creating or maintaining
the nuisance, and if notice to abate the nuisance has been given to
the owner, such cost shall be assessed against the real estate as
a special charge.[3]
Editor's Note: See also § 10.06, Dutch elm disease.
Any person occupying any real estate shall seed
or sod, plant and maintain the unpaved area within the street right-of-way
between the extended lot lines and the center of such right-of-way.
All weeds and grass shall be kept cut to a height not to exceed one
foot. If any person fails to comply with this section, the Director
of Public Works may cause the necessary work to be done and the cost
thereof shall be a lien against the property and shall be inserted
[Added 9-7-1982; amended
by Ord. No. 610]
The cost of constructing and installing streetlighting
in any street, alley, highway or public walk in the Village shall
be charged in whole or in part to the property benefited thereby,
pursuant to § 66.0703, Wis. Stats.
Editor's Note: Original § 8.11, which contained the text of a charter ordinance adopted 4-2-1991 regarding shoulder, street or sidewalk installation or widening; curb and gutter installation; streetlighting installation; and tree or shrub removal within the right-of-way, has been removed. The text of this charter ordinance is included in Ch. A70.
No. 610]