HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 2007 (766) AMENDMENTS TO ST. CROIX COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES
LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT CHAPTER 17 ZONING
Section 17.72 Rezoning Amendments
Ordinance No. '_7L- C Z CMG
St. Croix County, Wisconsin
The St. Croix County Board of Supervisors does ordain as follows:
WHEREAS, Lowell and Virginia Rivard applied to St. Croix County Planning and Zoning
Department to rezone approximately 6.60 acres in the SW ' / 4 of the SW '/4 of Section 7, T30N,
RI 9W, in the Town of Somerset, from Agricultural to Ag- Residential; and
WHEREAS, the St. Croix County Planning and Zoning Committee held a public hearing on the
rezoning request on November 28, 2007 in the St. Croix County Government Center, Hudson,
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 Somerset has recommended approval and identified that the proposed
use is in compliance with WSS 91.77.
2. The request is consistent with the County Development Management Plan and the
County Natural Resources Management Plan based on:
a. The parcel is in the rural planning area and is an appropriate use.
b. The proposed non - residential use is consistent with the rural character of the area
and is otherwise essential to the area.
c. The request is consistent with the surrounding neighborhood, countryside or
terrain.
d. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact stormwater
management.
e. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact water resources with
sedimentation resulting from erosion.
f. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact shoreland areas or
wetlands and closed depressions located in shoreland areas.
g. The proposed use has minimal potential to adversely impact closed depressions or
wetlands.
h. The proposed use is consistent with restricting development on slopes in excess of
20 %.
i. The proposed use is consistent with policies to preserve woodlands, prairie
remnants, unique open spaces, but not consistent with preserving environmental
corridors.
j. The proposed use is consistent with the goal to protect and improve groundwater
quality to supply clean water for drinking and recharging surface waters and
wetlands.
k. The proposed use is consistent with the goal to protect and enhance surface waters
and wetlands to preserve their ecological functions and recreational and scenic
values.
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1. The proposed use is consistent with the goal to protect and restore fish and
wildlife habitats for native species, improved water quality, recreational
opportunities, and natural beauty.
m. The request is consistent with the goal to preserve agricultural land for crop
production, scenic values, and wildlife habitat.
n. The proposed use is generally consistent or not in conflict with the St. Croix
County Natural Resources Management Plan.
3. It appears that the proposed use can comply with standards in the Land Use, Subdivision
and Sanitary ordinances.
4. The proposed use is consistent with the spirit or intent of the St. Croix County Zoning
Ordinance.
THEREFORE, the following described parcel is hereby rezoned from Agricultural to Ag-
Residential:
Legal Description
Part of the Fractional SW 114 of the SW 114, Section 7, T30N —R19W,
Town of Somerset, St. Croix County, Wisconsin described as follows:
Commencing at the southwest corner of said Fractional SW 114 of the SW 114, thence,
along the West line of said Fractional SW 114 of the SW 114, N 00 ° 40'37" E
509.13 feet to the northwest corner of Lot 1, Certified Survey Mop, Volume 21, Page 5192
and the point of beginning of this description:
thence N 00 ° 40' 37" E 809.80 feet to the northwest corner of said Fractional SW 114
of the SW 114;
thence, along the North line of said Fractional SW 114 of the SW 114,
S 89 0 09'16" E 356.86 feet, more or less, to northwest corner of Lot 3,
Certified Survey Mop, Volume 12, Page 3482,
thence, along the West line of said Lot 3, S 00 0 40'37" W 789.29 feet, more or less,
to the northeast corner of Outlot 1, Certified Survey Mop, Volume 21,
Page 5192;
thence N 89 ° 48'04" W 66.00 feet to the northwest corner of said
Outlot 1;
thence S 00 ° 40'37" W 18.06 feet to the southwest corner of said Outlot 1 and the
North line of sold Lot 1;
thence N 89 ° 29'30" W 290.86 feet to the point of beginning.
Parcel contains 6.60 acres, more or less.
This Amendment offered by the Planning and Zoning Committee on December 18, 2007.
YES NO ABSTAIN ABSENT SUPERVISOR SIGNATURE
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❑ ❑ ❑ Wallace Habhegger
❑ ❑ ❑
Lois Burri
❑ ❑ ❑ Stan Krueger'/
❑ ❑ ❑ Eugene Ruetz
❑ ❑ ❑ Ronald Troyer
This Ordinance Amendment was enacted by the St. Croix
Reviewed by Corporation Counsel on County Board of Supervisors on &C €mb'-,r I d (D7
Greg Timmerman, Corporation Counsel Cindy Campbell t6inty Clerk
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