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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 03-09-04 AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE TO: Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board Chairperson FROM: Art Jensen, Chairperson COMMITTEE TITLE: Planning and Zoning DATE OF MEETING: Tuesday, March 9, 2004 TIME: 9:00 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. County Surveyor Update Updated Job Description 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Town Planning Projects c. Land Information Program d. Recycling Cooperative Agreement* e. Tire Collection Fees* 3. Ordinance Development Subdivision Ordinance /Sanitary Code /Zoning Ordinance 4. Zoning Business Zoning Director Job Description* AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING - ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE - ADJOURNMENT (This agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) Date: March 4, 2004 *Items added or revised for amended agenda. Cc: County Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, County Clerk, Committee Members MINUTES PLANNING AND ZONING COMMITTEE ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON WI MARCH 9, 2004 Present: Chairman Art Jensen, Supervisors, Lois Burri, Linda Luckey, and Jan Zoerb. Excused, Veronica Anderson. Staff: Brian Halling, Dave Fodroczi, Steve Fisher, Ellen Denzer, Brett Budrow, Jennifer Havens, Rod Eslinger, Bob Heise and Judy Olson. Guests: County Board Supervisor Julie Speer, Bob Rolle and Gene Nelson Adoption of the Agenda -The meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m. Motion by Burri, 2 by Zoerb to adopt the agenda and carried. Adoption of Previous Minutes — Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Burri to approve the minutes of February 10, 2004 with corrections. Motion carried. Motion by Burri, 2nd by Zoerb to approve the minutes of February 12, 2004 with corrections. COUNTY SURVEYOR UPDATE Surveyor — Job Description — Changes to the job description were made by the Personnel Department as requested by the Committee. Halling distributed copies of the job description with changes. Halling noted that his workload has not changed, but he is now seeing double the number of new subdivision submittals. Corner ties in Troy will be done after the snow melts. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices- Motion by Zoerb, 2 by Luckey to accept the revenue report of $617.30 as presented. Motion carried. Recycling Cooperative Agreement- Havens presented and explained the Recycling Cooperative Agreement with the City of Glenwood, Village of Roberts, Town of Cady and Town of Cylon for Committee review and approval. Motion by Jensen, 2nd by Zoerb to accept the Cooperative Agreement as presented. Motion carried. Tire Collection Fees - Havens reported that tires are collected at four or five locations during the County's one -day collection events. Greenman Tire Recycling from Savage, Minnesota, collects the tires from the sites, then processes the tires for reuse. The number of tires collected each year continues to be sizable. Havens requested approval of the fee increase from $1.00 to $2.00 per car tire to more accurately reflect the actual cost of the program and limit the subsidy from the recycling grant. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Burri to approve the tire collection fee increase. Motion carried. Havens distributed schedules for the Wenk Magic of Recycling show performances in elementary schools in Eau Claire, Dunn, Pierce, and St. Croix County. The show will be performed in 45 schools, eight in St. Croix County. All schools in the County were invited to participate in the program. 1 Havens showed the worm composting project being done in the Planning Department. She is also working with a classroom at St. Patrick School on a similar project which includes book discussions and a student presentation for parents. She will be working with more schools on similar projects and plans to distribute books on worm composting. Town Planning Projects- Fodroczi is invited to the Town of Emerald planning meeting on April 1 to answer questions. The town plan committee is reviewing the County Development Plan. Denzer reported that Stanton and Cylon have each finished the cultural resources section and beginning economic development. Planning is going very well in both towns. Members in Cylon, with the substantial amount of conservation land in the town, are concerned with the wildlife areas and are talking about including a plan for buffer areas. Budrow stated that Pleasant Valley Plan Commission is planning an open house in April to present information on land use and density. There is discussion on one per 40 versus two per 40 density with smaller lot sizes. Most of the other elements are completed. The Town of Baldwin had much discussion on the new County ordinances and seems to be in favor of the new conservation design. The Plan Commission is working on the economic development segment. The Town of Hammond is working on the agricultural section goals and objectives. This section is difficult considering the amount of development in the town. Fodroczi distributed the recently released State DOA 2000 - 2030 final municipality population projections. He noted that St. Croix County is projected to grow at the greatest rate in that 30- year period. The complete report is available in PDF format on the DOA website. The UW Extension is sponsoring training on Comprehensive Planning and Implementing the Plan on Wednesday, March 24 at 7 p.m. at the Ag Center in Baldwin. Land Information Program - Fodroczi reported that the public meeting notice for the County land information website access meeting will appear in this week's county newspapers. Notices were distributed to Register of Deeds, Treasurer, and Planning Department mailing lists. The meetings will be held at 2:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, March 18, 2004 in the Government Center Community Room. A summary of feedback and comments from the meetings will be brought to the March 23 Committee meeting. Fodroczi and Budrow will meet with MarkHurd, the contractor for the orthophotography project, on March 10 to see its facility, finalize any contract specifications and determine what to do for quality control and accuracy. Fodroczi will bring the final contract to the Committee for approval on March 23. ZONING BUSINESS Zoning Director Job Description - Motion by Luckey, 2 °a by Burri to approve the Zoning Director Job Description. Motion approved. 2 The Committee discussed the Job Description and staffing. Zoerb recommended scheduling a closed session to discuss personnel matters and insure that the Committee has all the information necessary to make the best decision regarding staffing and replacement of the Zoning Director and consider all the options available. This item will be included in the March 23 Committee meeting agenda. Fisher reported that one person responded to the Administrative Secretary posting and will be interviewed today. ORDINANCE DEVELOPMENT Subdivision Ordinance /Sanitary Code —The process to extend the period for review, feedback and comments on the proposed ordinances has been developed, with final approval in June. Fodroczi distributed the proposed timeline for public hearings, informational meetings, and publication dates through March, April and May with presentation to the County Board in June. There will be three meetings in March to review the ordinances as originally proposed. Feedback and comments from the public hearings and the March informational meetings will be reviewed in April. Motion by Zoerb, 2 °a by Luckey to approve the timeline for public hearing dates with three informational meetings on March 17, 25, and 30. Written comments to be received by 5:00 p.m. on May 21. Motion carried. The Committee then reviewed the revised ordinances and agency hearing comments received. Fodroczi stated that the proposed ordinances and comments were reviewed with Corporation Counsel. Eslinger explained the changes requested by the Department of Commerce in reference to the public comments to the Sanitary Code. Denzer explained the changes that were made in the Zoning Ordinance. Most changes were for clarification and wording changes. Corporation Counsel requested changes after meeting and discussing the documents with staff. Comments were also received from the Highway Department staff and will meet with Planning staff on any residual comments. Many comments were received on the environmental corridor. Fodroczi asked if this should be included in the informational meetings. Denzer explained the environmental corridor map, which is also included in the County Development Plan. The map includes public lands, subdivisions, property and section lines. A large map format is available for viewing. The map in electronic format will be used at the informational meetings. The chairman adjourned the meeting at 12:40 p.m. Respectfully submitted: t . L_c L1LC.a/ dy Ols , Recording Secretary Lois Burri, Secretary 3