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ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING
Robert Boche, St. Croix County Board Chairperson
Chairperson Tom Dorsey
County Development Management Plan and Zoning Ordinance Steering
Committee
May 14, 1997
9:00 a.m.
St. Croix County Government Center, Hudson, WI,
Conference Room 1281/1282
CALL TO ORDER:
ROLL CALL:
ADOPTION OF AGENDA:
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES:
UNFINISHED BUSINESS:
1. Project Status Report
2. Physical Features Analysis
3. Agricultural Land Evaluation
4. Alternative Development Scenarios
5. Zoning Ordinance
NEW BUSINESS:
DATE &AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:
ANNOUNCEMENTS &CORRESPONDENCE:
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(This agenda not necessarily presented in this order)
Submitted by: St. Croix County Planning Department
Date: May 2, 1997
cc: County Clerk/News Media/Notice Board/Committee Members
MINUTES
DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT PLAN & ZONING ORDINANCE
STEERING COMMITTEE
MAY 14, 1997
GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON
PRESENT: Chairperson Tom Dorsey, Dick King, George Menter, Jack Breault, Bill Peavey, Cyril
Cernohous, Ron Raymond, Carolyn Barrette and Dave Hense. Staff: Ellen Denzer, Dave
Fodroczi, Jim Janke, Jerry Chasteen and Jay Tappen. Guests: Brian Ohm of UW-Ext.,
Kris Belling, Scott Counter, Ray Drake, Tony Steiner, Rita Horne and Mary Hensley.
ABSENT: Linda Luckey, Jim Winzer, Kermit Thompson and Jan Hinchman excused.
Chairperson Dorsey called the meeting to order at 9:10 a.m. Motion by Hense, seconded by Breault, to
adopt the agenda. Motion carried. Motion by Barrette, seconded by Hense, to approve the April 17, 1997
minutes. Motion carried. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday, June 19, 1997 at 9 a.m.
Project Status Report
Jay Tappen of West Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission handed out a draft of the
Development Management Alternatives Chapter for review. He summarized the process of evaluating the
various alternatives and the committee's decision to recommend a modified status quo alternative.
Physical Features Analysis
A rough draft of the Physical Features Chapter was provided to the committee members at the last meeting
for review. There were no comments.
Agricultural Land Evaluation
Planner Ellen Denzer reported on the meeting with the Baldwin agricultural agencies including the Natural
Resource Conservation Service, Land Conservation and UW-Extension. The agricultural staff members
reviewed the Land Evaluation and Site Assessment program and then looked at the proposed map of high,
medium and low priority categories for the protection of agricultural lands. There was strong agreement
that this is a much better system than the old classification system. The group recommended simplifying
the classifications into two categories of high potential and low potential and moving all of LESA group
5 and the best of LESA group 6 soils into the high category. This would put all soils where it is
economically feasible for a farmer to make a profit into the high category. This would also insure that all
soils currently considered ag capability class 3 are in the high category, otherwise, some capability class
3 soils in the LESA group 5 category would be left out.
Committee members did not agree with the agricultural staff assessment. They questioned how the system
would justify the rezoning of land if there were only two categories and felt the three categories gave
more flexibility. They also did not want to see any of the LESA group 5 or 6 lands moved into the high
category as that would put too large a percentage of the County's acreage into a category requiring
agricultural land use protection. The consensus was to leave the categories as originally presented, with
LESA groups 14 in high, 5 and 6 in moderate and the remainder in low.
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Alternative Development Scenarios
Tappen handed out a modified status quo development scenario map which incorporated the ideas from
the agricultural staff in Baldwin. The map will have to be revised to reflect the Committee's comments
regarding which ag lands should be considered a high priority for protection.
Tappen also reviewed handouts showing a potential subdivision in the Town of Eau Galle. He compared
a conventional subdivision layout with two to three acre lots and a total of 144 units with an open space
design which would have 144 one to one and a half acre lots while still protecting environmental areas.
Further examples will be provided next month.
UW-Extension Specialist Brian Ohm reviewed handouts on takings, vested rights and market -based land
use management tools.
Zoning Ordinance
Denzer summarized the activities of the Zoning Workgroup. The log has been completed, an outline is
done and the group is reviewing the introduction and administration sections. Copies of the log were
provided to the Steering Committee members and they were encouraged to review and provide comments
at the next meeting.
Denzer also reviewed a revised analysis of the Zoning Ordinance Trend Analysis for variances and special
exceptions. Denzer highlighted significant trends over the 20-year history of the ordinance and the last
six years of the ordinance. The overall rate of approvals and denials has remained constant. However, the
total number of variances has decreased slightly and the number of variances approved has decreased
slightly. The number of special exceptions has increased slightly, and their approval rate has increased
slightly.
Motion by Hense, seconded by Cernohous to adjourn. Motion carried. Meeting adjourned at 11:25 a.m.
Submitted by:
Ellen Denzer, Recording Secretary
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