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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 04-08-03AMENDED ST.CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE TO: Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board Chairperson FROM: Art Jensen, Chairperson COMMITTEE TITLE: Planning, Zoning & Parks DATE OF MEETING: Tuesday, April 8, 2003 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: St. Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Rd Hudson WI Room 1281 CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: February I V h & March 11, 2003 DATE OF NEXT MEETING 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Directors Report c. Homestead Parklands- Response to E -Mail Message Regarding Maintenance Building d. Resolution Parks Improvement Grant Application e. Park Dedication Fees - Survey of Other Counties f. Truck Bids 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Town Planning Projects c. USH 63 Local Advisory Committee d. Regional Wastewater Issues e. Impact Fees f. Real Property Lister Report g. Land Information Program 3. Zoning Business a. Municipal Plats b. Discussion of Ordinances* 4. County Surveyor a. Counties Surveyor's Association Presentation -1:30 P.M.* AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE ADJOURNMENT (This agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) *Items added or revised for amended agenda. Submitted by: St. Croix County Planning Department Date: April 3, 2003 Cc: County Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, County Clerk, Committee Members MINUTES PLANNING, ZONING AND PARKS COMMITTEE ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON WI APRIL 8, 2003 Present: Chairman Art Jensen, Supervisors Jan Zoerb, Veronica Anderson, Lois Burri and Linda Luckey. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Ellen Denzer, Brett Budrow, Bob Heise, Dave Larson, Steve Fisher and Judy Kahler. Guests: County Board Chairman Buck Malick, County Surveyor Brian Halling, Pierce County Surveyor Bob Lannan, Dunn County Surveyor Leon Herrick, Polk County Surveyor Steve Geiger, LaCrosse County Surveyor Bill Jung and Eau Claire County Surveyor Matthew Janiak. Adoption of the Agenda -The meeting was called to order at 9:02 a.m. Motion by Anderson, 2»d by Burri to adopt the agenda and carried. Meeting /Minutes - Motion by Luckey, 2 nd by Zoerb to approve the amended minutes of February 11 February 25 and February 26 Minutes of March 5 th were approved as presented by the same motion and carried. A meeting has been scheduled for April 21 9:00 a.m. at the Government Center for the Zoning portion of the monthly meetings. PARKS BUSINESS Bills and Invoices -Heise presented an amended bill list to the Committee. It was suggested that Parks look at a cost savings plan for the phone system. Motion by Zoerb, 2 by Burn to approve payment of the Parks bills in the amount of $43,969.78. Motion carried. Directors Report- Jensen and Heise attended the Personnel Committee Meeting regarding their approval of the changes in job descriptions and organizational chart for the Parks staff. Personnel voted to approve but will send the chart and changes in the job descriptions to a consultant to evaluate. Staff has been in training to become certified for prescribed burns. We will have one more class on Saturday. Heise is pleased with the outcome. We will work with Pheasants Forever on this as well. Regarding Wildwood Trail -Mr. Rodel has sold his property to a new landowner. Heise indicated that he believes the new trail policy was in place prior to the sale of the land. Heise reported it was determined we no longer are required to obtain a DNR permit for the Glen Hills beach sand blanket. It was further determined we do not need a permit from Zoning. The Parks Department is anxious for the road bans to be lifted to begin completing some projects. They are working on the open house event for Homestead Parklands. Baldwin and Emerald Dairies were contacted and they will donate ice cream and milk for the event. 1 We are planning a children's fishing contest. Parks will have to put a tag on their prize fish and DNR will not help us on that because of policy issues. Homestead Parklands- Response to E -Mail Message Regarding Maintenance Building -A letter dated March 31 from Heise was sent to Larry and Kim Heinemann in response to an email Heise received on March 23 regarding the placement of a maintenance building within Homestead Parklands. A copy of the email and Heise's response letter to that e -mail had been sent to the Committee prior to today's meeting addressing their concerns. Heise also received a letter dated March 28th from Larry Shackles with concerns over signage to Homestead Parklands. That letter and Heise's response to that letter were sent to the Committee prior to today's meeting. The Committee was satisfied with Heise's responses. Resolution Parks Improvement Grant Application -Heise presented a proposed resolution for parks improvements grant application that has been revised from the 2001 grant application. Timmerman has reviewed and commented on the resolution. We must be prepared to defend the dollar amount of those improvements. If approved by the Planning, Zoning, and Parks Committee, the resolution must be brought before the County Board on April 15 2003. The grant must be submitted by May 1, 2003. A listing of the projects and their costs associated with those projects will be included in the grant application. A draft copy was provided to the Committee for review. New estimates will be coming from contractors. Dave Larson will be working on the grant and requested input from the Committee on what they believe more important. Jensen stated health and safety issues are very important at all parks. We were unsuccessful at obtaining grant funds for parks renovation last year. Jensen also indicated monies for those projects will be very tight with the economy and budget cuts. Jensen requested the draft with the $80,000.00. The Committee suggested $80,000.00 from the Capital Outlay Plan be added to the Resolution and some minor language changes should also be made. Motion to approve the amended resolution for Parks Improvements and move to the County Board for approval made by Zoerb, 2 "d by Burri. Motion carried. Park Dedication Fees -At the last Planning, Zoning and Parks Meeting the Committee requested amounts charged from other rapidly growing counties in Wisconsin. Fodroczi queried his colleagues from around the State to review the amount of fees other counties are charging for Park Dedication or Impact Fees. See attached spreadsheet. Truck Bids -Heise provided a copy of the bids received for a new truck. Heise thanked the Highway Department for doing such a great job with this. Bids were reviewed with the Committee. Heise weighed all of the equipment that needed to be hauled and felt that we did not need a larger, heavier truck. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Anderson to accept the bid of $24,698.22 from Johnson Motors. Jensen abstained. Motion carried. 2 Recess at 10:20 a.m. - Resume 10:30 a.m. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices -The Committee reviewed the Revenue Report. Fodroczi also presented the March Planning Bills in the amount of $1,428.58. Motion by Zoerb, 2" by Burn to accept the Revenue Report as presented and approve the payment of the bills. Motion carried. Town Planning Projects - Budrow reported David Trechter, UW Extension, River Falls was the facilitator for the town goals workshop. Jim Janke helped to direct the town plan meetings as well. We are continuing work with the towns regarding their vision statement, goals and objectives. We received very good feedback from the Commissions on the two sessions. The open houses will be early spring. Baldwin has added several bullets to their vision statement to make it stronger. Denzer feels her towns are progressing along the same lines as Budrow. She indicated there is some confusion between Zoning and Planning. Discussion was held regarding some environmental political issues at those meetings. New chairs for some of the town boards and some new planning boards will take office because of the elections. We are hoping to continue at this pace even with the new changes. USH 63 Local Advisory Committee -The Advisory Committee met last Friday. Fodroczi felt that good discussion took place. The Committee received some notes from that meeting today and a copy of a power point they reviewed. All the corridor alternatives were thoroughly reviewed. As far as cost factor, Fodroczi felt it was almost a wash. Businesses will not have immediate access to the bypass alternative. The DOT will look to local officials to exercise their corridor preservation. A public information meeting will take place on April 29, 2003 at the American Legion in Baldwin at 7:00 p.m. Regional Wastewater Issues- Fodroczi indicated that the Wastewater Commission met on March 27 DNR has had a policy shift and are looking at an experimental project on the I -94 Corridor. An open house will be held May 1st in Roberts from 4:00 -8:00 p.m. The Village of Hammond had a dike of one of their seepage cells leak with about 70 gals a minute flowing out. The Department of Natural Resources previously issued a notice of non - compliance. The DNR has the authority to impose limitations on this permit. A notice of violation and notice of claim was just issued. Impact fees - Fodroczi has met with Whiting and felt that we should review with Corporation Counsel to see what our authority is. Real Property Report -They have successfully rolled over from 2002. Fodroczi reported Real Property information for 2002 is now closed. Kay Zilz's last day as the Real Property Lister is April 21 Fodroczi worked with Personnel to develop a test based on 3 the routine items that the Lister will have to solve and process. Shar Croes, who has been the Assistant Real Property Lister, has been selected to take her place. Land Information - Fodroczi reviewed a letter dated April 3 rd to the Senate Chair (Darling) and Assembly Chair (Kaufert) that he wrote regarding the Senate Bill 44 -WI Land Information Program. The letter was straightforward about our opposition to the budget cuts. We have approval $30,000 in a Land Information Grant. Parcel numbers are missing for some City and Villages. Deer Park and Wilson had no maps. We shall get the parcel mapping completed in order to link all parcels. Distribution Policies for Real Property Information - Discussion was held in regard to the Real Property information that should be given to the public on the Internet. How we provide that information to them is another issue. Motion by Luckey, 2 nd by Jensen to leave out personal information (names and addresses) that would be given to State. Motion carried. Recess for lunch at 12:30 p.m. Resume at 1:30 p.m. County Surveyor `s Association Presentation - Surveyor's from LaCrosse, Eau Claire, Polk, Dunn and Pierce Counties attended the meeting today. Each surveyor presented an overall view of their duties, whom they answer to and where they are located in the structure. Discussion. The surveyors that were polled today indicated that the surveyor should be housed with Land Information, Zoning and Planning Departments due to the nature of their work. The Committee thanked the surveyor's for taking time to attend the meeting today. ZONING BUSINESS Municipal Plats- Fisher presented a municipal plat of Riverhills 1st Addition. We had previously looked at this. Fisher requested the Committee certify with no objection the plat of Riverhills 1st Addition in the City of New Richmond. Motion by Burn, 2 nd by Jensen to certify with no objection. No opinion is expressed concerning adequate sewer service. Motion carried. Burri excused at 3:30 p.m. The meeting was adjourned at 3:45 p.m. Respectfully submitted: y Kahle , Reco ng Secretary Lois Burn, Secretary 4