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LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 17 ZONING
Section 17.72 Rezoning Amendments
Ordinance No. '77 5&2_0b%1
St. Croix County, Wisconsin
The St. Croix County Board of Supervisors does ordain as follows:
WHEREAS, Charles and Barbara Weyer applied to St. Croix County Planning and Zoning
Department to rezone approximately 43.159 acres in the North 1 /2 of the Northwest 1/ of Section
36, T28N, RI 7W, in the Town of Rush River, from Agricultural to Agricultural District Two; and
WHEREAS, the St. Croix County Planning and Zoning Committee held a public hearing on the
rezoning request on September 24, 2008 in the Agricultural Service and Educational Center in
Baldwin, Wisconsin; and
WHEREAS, the St. Croix County Planning and Zoning Committee considered all written
information and verbal testimony presented at the hearing, and made the following findings in
support of the request:
1. The Town of Rush River has recommended approval and identified that the proposed
use is in consistent with WSS 91.77.
2. The request is consistent with the St. Croix County Development Management Plan
and the St. Croix County Natural Resources Management Plan based on:
a. The parcel is in the rural planning area and is an appropriate use.
b. The proposed use is consistent with minimum lot size requirements in the rural
planning area.
c. The request is consistent with the surrounding neighborhood, countryside or
terrain.
d. The proposed use does provide a buffer for residential development from nearby
agricultural uses or non - metallic mining.
e. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact stormwater
management.
f. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact water resources with
sedimentation resulting from erosion.
g. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact shoreland areas or
wetlands and closed depressions located in shoreland areas.
h. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact closed depressions or
wetlands.
i. The proposed use is consistent with restricting development on slopes in excess of
20 %.
j. The proposed use is generally consistent with policies to preserve woodlands,
prairie remnants, unique open spaces, or environmental corridors.
k. The proposed use is consistent with the County's policy to favor agricultural uses
over non - agricultural uses when considering land use conflicts.
1. The request does protect or preserve agricultural land.
m. The proposed use is generally consistent with the goal to protect and improve
groundwater quality to supply clean water for drinking and recharging surface
waters and wetlands.
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FCounoty e Amendment was enacted by the St. Croix
Reviewed by Corporation Counsel on of Supervisors on de Greg Timmerman, Corporation Counsel
ell, ounty lerk
STATE OF WISCONSIN
COUNTY OF ST. CROIX
t, Cindy CanVW, St. Croix
County Clerk, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that
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