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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 06-14-05 AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board Chairperson FROM: Jan Zoerb, Chair COMMITTEE TITLE: Planning and Zoning DATE OF MEETING: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 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. Election of Committee Secretary 2. Land Use Ordinance Applications a. Minor Subdivisions b. Municipal Plats 3. Planning and Zoning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. COOP /COG Plan c. Office Space Plans* d. Capital Outlay Plan* e. Comments on State Budget f. Planning Report g. Xcel Energy Landfill Siting Project* h. Land Information Report i. Real Property Lister Update j. Code Administration Report k. Rezoning Schedule 1. Ordinance Amendments a. Ordinance Adopting Chapter 12 — Sanitary Ordinance* b. Ordinance Adopting Subchapter 17 -III.V - Lower St. Croix Riverway District* c. Update on Floodplain Zoning and Land Division Ordinances* 4. Register of Deeds Temporary Positions for 2006 Budget AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING - ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE - ADJOURNMENT (This agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) Date: June 9, 2005 *Items added or revised for amended agenda. Cc: County Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, County Clerk, Committee Members IV PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE The St. Croix County Planning and Zoning Committee will be conducting a public hearing on Wednesday, June 8, 2005, at 7:00 p.m. at the St. Croix County Government Center, 1101 Carmichael Road, Hudson, Wisconsin, to consider the following petition(s): 1) Mark K. Doyle to rezone approximately 23 +/- acres of land from Agriculture to Ag /Residential. Location: The NE'/ of the NE 1 14, Section 13, T30N- R20W, Town of Somerset. 2) John and Georgine Schottler to rezone approximately 131 +/- acres of land from Agriculture to Ag /Residential. Location: The SW ' / 4 of the NW '/4, the NE ' / 4 of the SW '/4, the NW '/4 of the SW '/4, the SE '/a of the SW '/4, all in Section 34, T30N -R19W, Town of St. Joseph. 3) Lester Langness to rezone approximately 65 +/- acres of land from Agriculture to Ag /Residential. Location: Part of the SW ' / 4 of the SW '/4, Section 35, T30N -R19W, Part of the NE'/ of the NE 1 /4, Section 35, T30N -R1 9W, Part of Government Lot 1, Section 26, T30N -R1 9W, Town of St. Joseph. 4) New Horizon Homes, Inc., to rezone approximately 13 acres of land from Ag /Residential to Commercial. Location: Part of the NW ' / 4 of the NW Section 12, T30N -R18W, Town of Richmond. Information on this petition may be obtained from the office of the Planning and Zoning Department, Hudson, St. Croix County, Wisconsin. In the case of cancellation of this hearing, such notice will be announced on WIXK and WEVR Radio Stations, or call the Planning and Zoning Office Department at 715 - 386 -4680 before 5:00 p.m. Jan Zoerb, Chairperson Planning and Zoning Committee r MINUTES PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON WI June 14, 2005 Present: Committee: Chair Jan Zoerb, Supervisors Lois Burri, Brian Hurtgen, Wally Habhegger, Stan Krueger; Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Ellen Denzer, Brett Budrow, Bob Bezek, Alex Blackburn, Jenny Shillcox, Greg Timmerman, Jennifer Emmerich, Kay Walsh, Debbie Murphy, Judy Olson Guests: Jon Sonnentag, Bill Berndt Call to Order: Chair Zoerb called the meeting to order at 8:35 a.m. Date of Next Meeting: June 28, 2005. Action on Previous Minutes: Committee members agreed that all minutes be designated "draft" or "unofficial" until final approved copy is signed. Motion by Zoerb, 2 nd by Habhegger, to approve the minutes of February 22, 2005. Motion carried. Krueger abstained. Election of Committee Secretary — Krueger was elected as Committee Secretary by unanimous vote. Land Use Ordinance Applications Minor Subdivisions — Blackburn presented two minor subdivisions for approval. MN0024 - Richard Stout, Town of Warren, four lots totaling 10.75 acres. Staff recommends approval with conditions: 1) address minor changes from Highway Department, 2) submit financial guarantees. Motion by Habhegger, 2 nd by Burn to approve with conditions. Motion carried. MN0047 - Darrell & Diane Moe, Town of Star Prairie, three lots totaling 8.02 acres. Staff recommends approval. Motion by Habhegger, 2 nd by Hurtgen to approve. Motion carried Municipal Plats — Highview Meadows 2nd Addition, City of River Falls. Because of the proximity of a quarry Blackburn will check on City of River Falls non - metallic mining ordinance. Motion by Habhegger, 2 nd by Burri to certify no objection to the plat of Highview Meadows 2 nd Addition in the City of River Falls, and stipulating that no opinion is expressed concerning adequate sewer service. Motion carried. Planning and Zoning Business - Bills & Invoices - The May revenue report and payment of May bills were reviewed by the Chair. COOP /COG Plan — Fodroczi presented an updated plan for the new combined department for Committee review. The essential functions involve daily responsibilities and activities. Krueger recommended that personal phone numbers be listed for staff members. Motion by Burn, 2 nd by d o t, or "� Habhegger to accept the plan with the condition that personal phone numbers be included. Motion carried. Office Space Plans — The final drawings should be done this day. Adjustments to the previous plans were made incorporating staff recommended changes. Cost estimates are expected soon and the final plan will be presented at the next meeting. Capital Outlay Plan — Fodroczi distributed copies of the 2004 plan and the updated 2005 plan (through 2009) and reviewed items with Committee. Fodroczi will give a status report of 2005 items at July meeting. Motion by Krueger to approve the 2005 plan and send to Finance Committee with the understanding that the office remodeling item may be changed. Motion 2nd by Bum and carried. Comments on State Budget — Fodroczi reviewed changes in state budget that affect planning, zoning, land records and recycling programs. Our funding is frozen at the 1999 level. He presented a resolution of opposition. Motion by Habhegger, 2nd by Hurtgen to approve the resolution opposing transfers from the State recycling fund and endorsing increased state funding for local recycling programs. Motion carried. Zoerb requested the resolution be signed by Greg Timmerman prior to going to County Board. Planning Report — Denzer reported that the Towns of Cylon and Stanton are continuing to meet, but have not made much progress in recent months. There was not a quorum at Cylon's last meeting but another meeting is scheduled for next month. Stanton has had excellent discussion and debate. Denzer prepared a summary sheet for their review. Next month Stanton will meet at an earlier time in order to better cover the subjects. She hopes to get plans in writing after the next meeting. There is a strong consensus among members regarding no major subdivisions. Budrow reported that Pleasant Valley is struggling at the town board level with the policy of two per 40 density regardless of zoning. Approximately 75% of the land in Pleasant Valley is zoned exclusive ag and 25% is zoned ag- residential. The plan commission forwarded the two per 40 density policy to the town board for adoption. That item is on this evening's town board agenda for the town board to consider that policy and the subdivision ordinance. If not adopted, the plan commission is looking to the town board for better advice on what direction to take. They are continuing with the five -acre minimum lot size. Baldwin plan commission met two weeks ago. Very good discussion regarding land use policies, but is struggling with some difficult decisions. The current policy in the subdivision ordinance allows two lots in five years. The subdivision ordinance prohibits major subdivisions except with common septic systems. With the possible County change regarding common systems they may allow major subdivisions, but wish to maintain status quo, allowing no major subdivisions and possibly wait a few years to see how conservation designs with common systems work out in other towns. Hammond is finished with its land use section and is promoting conservation design in subdivisions. May adopt its own subdivision ordinance to allow conservation design. They may wait to see how the county ordinances work out before adopting their own ordinance. Zoerb asked if the towns in the Heartland project have commented on the proposed sanitary ordinance. Denzer and Budrow concurred that they have discussed the ordinance with those town plan commission members. The members have not expressed any objections. Plan commission members in Baldwin, Cylon and Stanton are generally pleased that the new sanitary ordinance does not contradict the language found in their town subdivision ordinances requiring public wastewater treatment systems for major subdivisions. Denzer and Budrow have made it clear that the decision on whether to allow major subdivisions with common treatment systems will be a decision of those town boards and should be addressed through changes to their subdivision ordinances. . Denzer reported on the Highway 64/65 corridor project from New Richmond and Highway 63 to the County line. DOT is working on creating a long -range improvement plan for that corridor and has held several public information meetings and special meetings for elected officials. We were asked to comment on citizen concerns. The DOT is looking at a three -stage approach over 20 -30 years - safety improvements in five to 10 years, improvements of traffic flow and limited access expressway in 10 to 20 years, and freeway designation in 20 to 30 years with removal of direct accesses in 20 + years. The towns of Stanton and Cylon have decided not to take positions but will defer to property owners. The County Highway Commissioner has indicated that there are concerns regarding the Highway T intersection and which town roads will have accesses. We will coordinate any responses to forward to DOT. Denzer reviewed a letter from the engineers requesting feedback on two issues regarding accesses to properties. Excel Energy Landfill Siting Project — Fodroczi distributed Management Plan and Site Selection Guide Landfill Siting Advisory Committee — A.S. King Reclamation Project, an executive summary related to the King Power Plant from the plant manager who contacted Fodroczi the previous week. The plant has an ash landfill in Oak Park Heights that will reach capacity in 2010. A replacement site is being sought. An advisory committee made up representatives of host Minnesota communities met in April and reviewed potential sites in Minnesota. No Wisconsin sites had been looked at. After further review, one Wisconsin site, the old quarry south of the ridge near the dog track in the City of Hudson is being considered, however, the plant manager is not enthusiastic about the prospects of this site. The advisory committee is requesting representation from St. Croix County and/or the City of Hudson at the committee meetings. Zoerb requested that the information be sent to the Land and Water Department. Fodroczi will coordinate with the City of Hudson on assuring that there is a representative of either the City or County for this project. Land Information Report — Budrow reported that the addressing project for the wireless E911 mapping is progressing well coordinating with Emergency Communications. We are redesigning the land information portal to provide enhanced treasurer and real property information. There are currently more than 200 subscription users. New subscribers will be able to apply online. Many comments on the web access have been received, both good and bad. The new design is in response to those comments. Budrow stated that he is planning to add zoning to the website. We are doing a migration of our parcel database from one data format to another format and zoning will be part of that as well as migration of the parcel data to a geodatabase that will be implemented July 1. We will begin the maintenance of our parcel data in geodatabase format on August 1. As part of the migration we will redesign the mapping of Real Property workflow and how parcel numbers are assigned. a Real Property Lister Update — Fodroczi reported that he is working with Real Property staff on workflow issues. There were a number of detailed procedural concerns with the new software. Staff compiled a list of issues and sent it to the software vendor, hopefully to get adjustments and advice on how to work more efficiently. They are also looking at tracking document flow and document numbers using a combination of reports from Register of Deeds and GCS software to get a weekly summary of documents. Over 30 different types of documents are being recorded and processed. From 2004, 9,200 transactions had to be processed into the system. The goal is to be up to date with 2005 documents on October 31, eliminate the current backlog after December 31 to stay current. The staff plans to have work rolls prepared in March Code Administration Report — Emmerich presented a report on enforcement issues and actions showing the breakdown of enforcement actions and the breakdown of enforcement actions per town highlighting those having high priority. Completed enforcement actions were also reviewed. Bezek noted that the focus of action is on public health and safety issues. Emmerich recently attended a code enforcement conference in Madison. New methods of handling violations were learned. The use of notice of violation stickers is being considered. She discussed code enforcement refocus items: - reformat of violation letters - increase of citation issuance - increase town involvement - notice of violation sticker Committee members agreed that this is an appropriate policy. Rezoning Schedule — Two rezonings will be scheduled for July 27. Ordinance Amendments Bezek reported that the Sanitary and Riverway amending Ordinances were mailed to the County Board. Corporation Counsel finished review on the Riverway Ordinances and made technical language clarifications. a. Ordinance Adopting Chapter 12 — Sanitary Ordinance - Bezek distributed copies of amending ordinances and cover memo to the County Board. Timmerman will sign the resolution before it is presented to the County Board. Motion by Krueger, 2nd by Hurtgen, to approve the Sanitary Ordinance amendment to the St. Croix County Code of Ordinance repeal of Chapter 15 and creation of Chapter 12 and send to County Board. Motion carried b. Ordinance Adopting Subchapter 17 -III.V — Lower St. Croix Riverway District — Motion by Habhegger, 2 by Burri to recommend the amendment to the St. Croix County Code of Ordinances to Section 17.36 St. Croix River Valley District and Section 17.09 Definitions as amended by Corporation Counsel. Motion carried. The resolution will be signed by Timmerman before being sent to County Board. C. Update on Floodplain Zoning and Land Division Ordinances — Fodroczi reported that a staff draft of the Floodplain ordinance will be ready after the next work session. Staff will work with town governments on issues regarding the Land Division Ordinances. Register of Deeds - Temporary Positions for 2006 Budget — Walsh distributed copies of a temporary help request form for temporary positions that include office aide position (1000 hrs), data entry position (750 hours), and for aperture card scanning project (1820 hrs.). Motion by Burri to approve the temporary help request for the Register of Deeds Office for 2006. Motion 2 nd by Habhegger and carried. The meeting adjourned at 1:00 pm. ResDectfully submitte JiMy Olson, ecording Secretary S