Is your community concerned about parcelization? Land division ordinances are a good tool to manage the nature and character of future land divisions in your community. The on-line resources below will help you consider your options:

•  http://gissrv2.uwsp.edu/cnr/clue/parcelization/                                                                                     In an effort to better understand the factors influencing land subdivision, CLUE researchers reconstructed historic tax parcel layers for six rural towns in Wisconsin. The digital parcel layers were mapped using historic tax assessment rolls, plat books, and other paper media at nearly 10-year increments back to 1950.

• www.wisconsinplanners.org/law/
  The land division ordinance for the Town of McMillan in Marathon County and an explanation of land division ordinances for towns prepared by Russel Knetzger, AICP. These and other resources can be found at the Wisconsin Chapter of the American Planning Association’s legal resources site.
   

• www.wisctowns.com/subdivision_ordinance.html
  A model subdivision ordinance for towns hosted at the Wisconsin Towns Association webpage.
   

• www.sewrpc.org/modelordinances/default.shtm
  Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission’s model land division ordinance and rural cluster development ordinance.
   

• www.wisc.edu/urpl/people/ohm/projects/consub.pdf
  Professor Brian Ohm’s model conservation subdivision ordinance.
   

• www.foth.com/client/nasewaupee/pdf/clustering.pdf
  A 6 page handout by Foth & VanDyke with diagrams showing examples of conservation subdivisions.

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