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ST. CROIX COUNTY
NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETIN
TO: Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board Chairperson
FROM: Jan Zoerb, Chair
COMMITTEE TITLE: Planning and Zoning
DATE OF MEETING: Tuesday, February 14, 2006
TIME: 8:30 a.m.
LOCATION: St. Croix County Government Center
1101 Carmichael Road, Room 1281
Hudson WI
CALL TO ORDER:
ROLL CALL:
ADOPTION OF AGENDA:
ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES:
DATE OF NEXT MEETING
1. Land Use Ordinance Applications
a. Municipal Plats
b. Waiver Request Public Hearings to be Scheduled
2. Planning and Zoning Business
a. Bills and Invoices
b. Springsted Study and Job Descriptions
c. Resolution on School Impact Fees
d. Planning Report
e. St. Croix River Crossing Mitigation Program
f. New Richmond Intergovernmental Committee
g. Land Information Report
h. Real Property Lister Update
i. Code Administration Report
j. Rezoning Schedule
k. New Ordinance Implementation
1. Ordinance Amendment (Accessory Structure Height, Language Clean -up)
AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING - ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE -
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PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE
ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON WI
February 14, 2006
Present:
Committee: Supervisors Lois Burri, Brian Hurtgen, Wally Habhegger
Absent and Excused: Stan Krueger, Jan Zoerb
Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Alex Blackburn, Bob Bezek, Ellen Denzer, Debbie Murphy, Brett
Budrow, Judy Olson
Call to Order: Vice Chair Burn called the meeting to order at 8:34 am.
Action on Previous Minutes: none
Motion by Habhegger, 2 °a by Hurtgen to approve the agenda. Motion carried.
Date of Next Meeting: February 28, 2005
1. Land Use Ordinance Applications
Municipal Plats — Motion by Habhegger, 2 °d by Hurtgen to certify no objection to the plat of
Rich River Trails, First Addition in the City of New Richmond, stipulating that no opinion is
expressed concerning adequate sewer service. Motion carried
Waiver Request Public Hearings to be Scheduled — The Committee agreed to schedule the
hearing for a variance application for Gordon and Lillie -Jean Awsumb for March 14 which will
be processed under 2005 standards.
Planning and Zoning Business
a. Bills and Invoices - The January 2006 revenue report and payment of January 2006 bills were
reviewed by the Committee.
b. Springsted Study and Job Descriptions — Fodroczi reported that he submitted the summary
report to Springsted as was presented to this Committee. No response has been received so far.
Springsted presented an overview at the last department head meeting. They are reviewing
comments from the departments. Fodroczi is reviewing job descriptions with staff which will
then be submitted to Springsted. He will serve on a liaison committee that should meet in
February. At its last meeting, the Personnel Committee discussed options for filling the Human
Resources Director position and will meet again on March 3. More information will be reported
at the department head meeting on February 17. This item will be on the next Planning and
Zoning Committee agenda.
c. Resolution on School Impact Fees - Fodroczi reported that this resolution promoting impact
fees for school districts was unanimously approved by members of the Hudson Area
Intergovernmental Advisory Council, and was forwarded to him by the County Board Chair.
At its last meeting, the Finance Committee voted three to one to recommend County Board
approval with a modification to acknowledge St. Croix County as a member of the advisory
council. This resolution will be presented to County Board at its March meeting. The Planning
and Zoning Committee's action will be incorporated into the resolution. Motion by Habhegger,
2nd by Hurtgen to support the Finance Committee's recommendation to the County Board.
Motion carried. A copy of the final resolution will be brought to one of the next P &Z meetings.
d. Planning Report — Denzer reported that the towns of Cylon and Stanton held their public
hearings on the comprehensive plan on February 8 and February 9 respectively. Both hearings
were very well attended with good discussion and comments received. Cylon expects to adopt
the plan at its next town board meeting. Denzer noted that plan commissions are very
knowledgeable on the plans. At the Stanton hearing, only one person expressed opposition to the
plan. The Stanton town board will likely adopt the plan at its next meeting.
Budrow reported that Pleasant Valley will hold its public hearing this evening. Its subdivision
ordinance was adopted in December. A notice was sent to all landowners. The Town of
Baldwin will hold its public hearing on March 9 and Hammond on March 13. Pleasant Valley
will likely adopt its plan the same evening.
A wrap -up meeting with all town plan commissions and town boards participating in the project
is being planned for April 20 at the Hammond town hall. Jim Janke will do a short session on
implementation. Budrow encouraged Committee members to attend.
e. St. Croix River Crossing Mitigation Program - Fodroczi reported that the mitigation
package distributed the previous week to stakeholders includes St. Croix County as the program
manager since much of the impact of the bridge is growth and development. The package will
be reviewed and finalized this week. The whole EIS process will be put out for review, probably
in March. The federal agencies requested that St. Croix County act as the fiscal agent. That
concept was reviewed by County Administrator, Corporation Counsel and Finance Director. It
received unanimous approval from the Finance Committee although the details are not ready yet.
The County will act as repository and dispersing agent for the money. The draft EIS should be
out for review by the March meeting.
f. New Richmond Intergovernmental Committee - The City is working with the four
surrounding towns on developing cooperative boundary agreements. They agreed to split into
two groups. The City will work with Star Prairie and Richmond on specific agreements. Stanton
and Erin Prairie agreed that they would back out of the discussions for the time being and allow
the City to work with the two other towns as they could benefit from what the city worked out
with Richmond and Star Prairie. There was another meeting with the City and two towns on
February 8 on the issues in the cooperative boundary agreements. Alicia Cosgrove from UW
Extension facilitated. They agreed that they would take their lists of issues back to their home
councils and boards for discussion and refinement and will meet again on March 29.
g. Land Information Report - Budrow gave an update on the E91 1 grant. He is working with
Gary Kollman on an appeal to see that our retained fees weren't counted against us in obtaining
the grant. Many other counties are also filing the same appeal. It is still under review.
Budrow reported that the County Clerk is handling the voter registration process for many of the
towns. Budrow is producing maps and other information necessary to support that process.
Fodroczi reported that a meeting was held with Real Property staff regarding issues with
mapping and the workflow and how real property relates to the mapping.
h. Real Property Lister Update — Fodroczi reported that Real Property staff is getting the last
of the 2005 plats entered into the system. He distributed a table of plats entered. Only two
towns are yet to be done. The Real Property Lister projected that work rolls would be done by
mid - March. They are more up -to -date than in the previous two years.
Fodroczi reported on some errors on personal property roll this year.. Because Awards of
Damages were not followed by deeds as in the past, errors also occurred with some assessments.
i. Code Administration Report - Bezek stated that he expects to see more requests for waivers
with the new ordinance. He will bring requests to the next meeting to schedule hearings.
Special meetings may need to be scheduled if there are three or more in a month.
j. Rezoning Schedule — Bezek reported that five rezonings are scheduled on March 8. One is a
request to rezone 33 acres in the Town of Eau Galle. Since this borders the Village of
Woodville, Bezek will attend the next Village board meeting. Two requests from Pleasant
Valley are scheduled, one to rezone two 20 -acre parcels to Ag II and another to rezone three 12-
acre parcels on 40 acres. He noted that the town recently adopted a subdivision ordinance that
limits two dwellings per 40 acres. Rivard Stone in the Town of Somerset requests to rezone four
acres to commercial. Cedar Lake Speedway in the Town of Star Prairie wishes to add another
business, an indoor motocross track, requiring rezoning the property. The entire property is
presently zoned ag- residential.
k. New Ordinance Implementation - no report
1. Ordinance Amendment (Accessory Structure Height, Language Clean -up) - Denzer
reviewed the handout with all proposed changes that was mailed to the Committee members.
She also reported that Corporation Counsel is reviewing the changes and has recommended two
additional changes. Corporation Counsel wants all the definitions checked to determine if there
are any additional definitions which are no longer found anywhere in the zoning ordinance.
These should be deleted. The Roman numeral numbering system and references to subchapters
should also be removed. To be consistent with other County ordinances, the document should
only refer to numbered sections, the applicable section or the ordinance in its entirety.
Corporation Counsel and his staff will prepare these additional changes. Committee members
reviewed the list of 13 proposed amendments. Planning and Zoning staff recommended one
additional amendment regarding Deputy Zoning Administrators: change town resident to town
representative on page 17.7 -3. Burri moved to move the proposed ordinance amendments, with
the additional formatting and obsolete content changes proposed by Corporation Counsel,
forward to public hearing on Wednesday, March 8 at 7 p.m. Motion 2 ° by Hurtgen and carried.
There will be no comment period beyond the date of the hearing. Copies will be sent to all
towns. The amendments will be sent to County Board for action on March 21.
Fodroczi distributed a letter from the Town of Somerset requesting that St. Croix County adopt a
county -wide sign ordinance as soon as possible. Staff will review the current Town of Somerset
sign ordinance as well as a previously drafted County ordinance and will report at the next
meeting.
Meeting adjourned at 11:00 am.
,Respectfully submitted:
dy Olso , Recording Secretary Stan Krueger, Secretary