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Chapter 14 – Building Code

(c) Definitions. In this section:

(1) “Capital Costs” means the capital costs to construct, expand, or improve
public facilities, including the cost of land, and including legal,
engineering, and design costs to construct, expand, or improve public
facilities, except that not more than ten (10) percent of capital costs may
consist of legal, engineering, and design costs unless the Village can
demonstrate that its legal, engineering, and design costs which relate
directly to the public improvement for which the impact fees were imposed
exceed ten (10) percent of capital costs. Capital costs does not include
other non-capital costs to construct, expand, or improve public facilities,
vehicles, or the costs of equipment to construct, expand, or improve public
facilities.

(2) “Developer” means a person that constructs or creates a land development.

(3) “Impact Fees” means cash contributions, contributions of land or interests
in land or any other items of value that are imposed on a developer by the
Village under this section.

(4) “Land Development” means the construction or modification of
improvements to real property that creates additional REUs within the
Village or that results in nonresidential uses that create a need for new,
expanded, or improved public facilities within the Village.

(5) “Public Facilities” means highways, as defined in section 340.01 (22), Wis.
Stats., and other transportation facilities, traffic control devices, facilities
for collecting and treating sewage, facilities for collecting and treating
storm and surface waters, facilities for pumping, storing and distributing
water, parks, playgrounds and land for athletic fields, solid waste and
recycling facilities, fire protection facilities, law enforcement facilities,
emergency medical facilities and libraries. “Public facilities” does not
include facilities owned by a school district.

(6) “Service Area” means the entire Village.

(7) “Building Permit” shall mean a permit required for new construction and
additions pursuant to the Village Code of Ordinances. The term building
permit, as used herein, shall not be deemed to include permits required for
remodeling, rehabilitation, or other improvements to an existing structure,
or for the reconstruction or replacement of a structure existing at the time of
the adoption of this section, provided that there is no increased need for
new, expanded or improved public facilities therefrom.

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