Final Plat Application Requirements
Section 23.05 of the Waukesha Municipal Code

Must be submitted to the Planning Department for review
and then presented to the
Planning Commission and Common Council for approval.

The following are required:

1. APPLICATION:
Application forms are available from the Planning Department and are filed with the Planning Department. The Planning Department will present the application and final plat to the Plan Commission and the Common Council.

2. FEE:
$300 + $10/lot for each final plat submitted for review by the Plan Commission and Common Council. Fee is to be given to the Planning Department along with the application form, final plat, and 7 collated copies of the final plat.

3. COPIES:
7 collated copies: Seven black line or blue prints, or photostatic copies of the final record plat. Additionally, 7 reduced sets are needed.

4. FINAL PLAT:
Final plat must be drawn on 22" wide by 30" long muslin-backed white paper with waterproof, nonfading black ink. There must be a binding margin of 1.5 " on the left side of the 30" length and a 1 inch margin on all other sides.  Scale: 100' or less to the inch.

Final plat must included:
a. Page numbers:
Consecutively numbered pages and the total number of sheets in the plat shown on each page.
b. North-Point, Etc.:
North-point, scale, date.  Scale must be shown graphically on the plat.
c. Boundary lines:
Indicate in lengths of courses to hundredths of a foot and bearings to seconds.  Balanced and closed with an error of closure to exceed 1 to 3,000.  Determined by an accurate survey in the field, done by a registered land surveyor.
d. Recorded streets: Exact location and width along the property line of all existing recorded streets intersecting or abutting the boundaries of the tract.
e. Bearings - Distances: True bearings and distances to nearest established survey lines, or other official monuments, located or accurately described on the plat. Any patent or established survey or corporation must be accurately monument-marked and located on the plat, and their names must be lettered on them.
f. Abutting owners: Name of adjacent subdivisions must be shown.  The Plan Commission may require the names of record owners of adjacent parcels or unplatted land to be shown.
g. Monuments: Accurate location and material of all permanent reference monuments as specified in Wisconsin Statute 236.51 must be described on the plat.
h. Layout

• Street and alley lines: Street and alley name, bearings, angle of intersection and widths (including widths along the line of any obliquely intersecting street).
• Length of all arcs: Radii, points or curvature and tangent bearings.
• All easements and right-of-ways: All easements and right-of-ways provided for or owned by public services with the limitation of the easement rights definitely stated on the plat.
• Lot lines: Lot lines with dimensions in feet and hundredths, and, if not at right angles to the street and alley lines, bearings and angles to seconds

i. Water courses: Prior, present, and/or proposed location of water courses, channels, streams, or creeks.

j. Deed restrictions: The Plan Commission may require that private, restrictions, initiated by the developer, be entered on the final plat or recorded with the Register of Deeds.

k. Setback lines: Setback building lines as stipulated in deed restrictions.

l. Block and lot designations: Blocks must be consecutively numbered, or lettered in alphabetical order.  In numbered additions to subdivisions bearing the same name, blocks must be numbered or lettered consecutively.  Lots in each block must be numbered consecutively.

m. Property offered for dedication: An accurate outline of all property offered for dedication to public use or reserved by covenant in the deeds for the common use of the property owners in the subdivisions.  The purpose of the property must be indicated.  Property offered for dedication to public use other than streets or roads must be marked "Dedicated to the Public".  Streets and roads not dedicated must be marked "Private Street".

n. Name of Subdivision: Name of subdivision, name or number of the larger subdivision or tract the new subdivision was or is part of.

o. Adjoining subdivision, lakes, etc.: Names and locations of adjoining subdivisions and location of adjoining unsubdivided property.  A sketch illustrating access to an adjoining lake or stream if provisions are made for access.

p. Affidavits and certificates: Affidavits and certificates by a registered professional engineer or surveyor to the effect that he/she has fully complied with the requirements of Chapter 23 of the Waukesha Municipal Code and the subdivision laws of the State of Wisconsin in surveying, dividing and mapping the land; that the plat is a correct representation of all the exterior boundaries of the land surveyed and the and subdivision of it; that the plat represents a survey made by him/her and that all monuments indicated thereon actually exist and their location, size and material are correctly shown.

q. Owner's certificate: A certificate by the owner of the land, executed as a conveyance is executed, in substantially the following form: "As owner I hereby certify that I cause the land described on this plat to be surveyed, divided, mapped and dedicated as represented on the plat.

I also certify that this plat is required by section 23.03(3) of the City Code, to be approved by the following: (governing bodies required for approval)."

r. Certificate of taxes paid: A certificate issued by the authorized City and County officials to the effect that there are no unpaid taxes or unpaid special assessments on any of the lands included in the plat.