Wisconsin Administrative Code › Department of Transportation › Chapter Trans 231 - Permits For Driveways And Alterations In State Trunk Highways › Section Trans 231.01 - General

Current through June 24, 2024
(1) This regulation is for the purpose of
			 designating standards within which the department is authorized to issue
			 permits pursuant to s.
			 86.07(2),
			 Stats., for placing, constructing or altering driveways for movement of traffic
			 between state trunk highways and abutting property or otherwise making
			 excavations or fills or installing culverts or making other alterations in a
			 state trunk highway or in other manner disturbing any such highway or bridge
			 thereon.
(2) This authorization
			 extends only to the issuance of permits for placing, constructing and altering
			 private driveways, with and without pipes, for the movement of traffic between
			 state trunk highways and abutting property, and to landscaping or other minor
			 grading or alterations in roadway slopes and embankments on state trunk
			 highways adjacent to lands owned by the permittee.
(4) No permit issued pursuant to this
			 authority shall supersede more restrictive requirements imposed by valid
			 applicable local ordinances.
(5)
			 Permits for such installations or alterations exceeding the limits or
			 conditions established hereby shall be issued only on specific approval of the
			 secretary.
(6) No permit shall be
			 issued or be valid for construction of a driveway connecting directly with the
			 through roadway of a controlled-access highway unless and until such driveway
			 is authorized by specific finding, determination and declaration approved by
			 the department.
(7) Applications
			 for permits shall be made on forms available at the offices of the department,
			 and will be furnished upon request.
(8) The purpose of the design standards
			 herein prescribed is to promote the orderly and safe movement in and out of
			 private properties in such manner as will constitute a minimum of interference
			 to through highway traffic, and to control the use of drainage structures and
			 appurtenances as may be necessary to preserve the physical structure of the
			 highway.
(9) No permit may be
			 issued under this chapter for construction of a highway or a private road or
			 driveway that connects directly with a state trunk highway and that provides
			 vehicular access to a land division, as defined in s.
			 Trans
			 233.015(4), unless the land division
			 was created before February 1, 1999 or the department, region office, as
			 defined in s.
			 Trans
			 233.015(1r), or reviewing
			 municipality, as defined in s.
			 Trans
			 233.015(6m), determines that the land
			 division meets the requirements of ch. Trans 233. If the department determines
			 that a land division created after February 1, 1999, differs substantially from
			 the land division shown on a land division map to which the department, region
			 office or reviewing municipality certified no objection under ch. Trans 233,
			 any permit issued under this chapter for that land division is void and may be
			 summarily canceled by written notice to the land owner and the private road or
			 driveway shall be discontinued.