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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 12-09-03AMENDED 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, December 9, 2003 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 2. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Directors Report c. Park Improvement Grant 2004 — Authorization to Purchase Park Amenities in 2003 d. Move Parks Department under Direction of LWCC — Administration committee e. Park User Report — 2003 f. Friends of Perch Lake 4. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Town Planning Projects c. Regional Wastewater Issues d. Land Information Program* e. Property Tax Processing* f. Stillwater Bridge Comments* g. Land Use Legislation* 5. Ordinance Development a. Nonmetallic Mining b. Subdivision Ordinance /Sanitary Code 6. Zoning Business a. Municipal Plats b. Discussion of Shoreland Revisions to N.R. 115 c. Viewings AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING - ANNOUNCEMENTS & CORRESPONDENCE - ADJOURNMENT (This agenda not necessarily presented in this order.) Date: December 4, 2003 *Items added or revised for amended agenda. 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 DECEMBER 9, 2003 Present: Chairman Art Jensen, Supervisors, Veronica Anderson, Lois Burri, Linda Luckey, and Jan Zoerb. Staff. Dave Fodroczi, Bob Heise, Dave Larson, Steve Fisher, Ellen Denzer, Brett Budrow and Judy Olson. Adoption of the Agenda -The meeting was called to order at 9:05 a.m. Motion by Anderson, 2nd by Burri to adopt the agenda and carried. Meeting /Minutes- Motion by Zoerb, 2 by Luckey to approve minutes of November 11, 2003 as amended. Motion carried. The next meeting is scheduled for December 10 at 7:00 p.m. for rezonings. COUNTY SURVEYOR UPDATE- Brian Halling could not be in attendance. His written report was submitted. Fran Bleskacek, Chris Colbeth and Halling have continued to team up on the subdivision reviews (which finally seem to be slowing down). Bleskacek and Halling have been involved in the Subdivision Ordinance update. Halling has been involved with the Land Information Committee working on our options for digitizing the survey records. The County Treasurer has requested our assistance in helping resolve property ownership issues. The staff is doing preliminary work on County property survey (near Huntington) at the request of the Parks Department and has continued to concentrate efforts on the Troy PLSS densification project. As always we continue to serve the public and other County departments. PARKS BUSINESS Bills and Invoices- Heise presented Parks bills to the Committee. The committee questioned the cost of the annual Wisconsin Indianhead Country membership fee of $1,150. Larson explained that the cost includes membership plus advertising in Indianhead Country publications. Motion by Burri, 2 by Zoerb, to approve payment of the Parks bills in the amount of $9,513.79. Motion carried. Director's Report -Heise reported that he has been working on developing a plan for the Parks Department in case there is a natural or other type disaster, and how the department would continue operations and the service of government. These plans are called Continuation of Operations/ Continuation of Government (Coop /Cog).This will provide the County availability of grants through Emergency Government. At the request of Administration, Heise is also working on GASB —34 identifying department assets with a cost $5,000 and over. The Parks Department is now responsible for the cost of unemployment benefits paid to seasonal employees during 2003 and 2004. This item may be included in future department budgets. Hunting season in Glen Hills Park was relatively quiet this year and no hunters in Homestead Parklands. Larson reported that he attended a meeting with the Troy Park Board on December 2 along with Jim Janke and a representative from Cedar Corp. There are currently three town parks. The Troy Park committee is looking for some direction from the County while working on some long -term plans and would like to work with the County on parks and trails and avoid duplication of efforts. Heise stated that Bonestroo feels that Phase II of Homestead Parklands is ready to be closed out. Repairs have been made on the fishing pier. The work is guaranteed and if it is not satisfactory, it will be redone at no cost to the County. Phase Two of Homestead should be completed before the end of this year. Only a few bills remain outstanding. The PZP Committee and the Land and Water Conservation Committee offered a resolution a few months ago against the bypassing of local authority on concentrated animal feeding operations. We are continuing to take that issue forward. The County's resolution is supported by West Central Land and Water Conservation Association as well as the State Land and Water Conservation Association in Madison. The issue was presented to the Regional Wisconsin Counties Association on December 8, supported and directed that WCA be active in this legislation and that they are a voice at the table during the development of the legislation. Park Improvement Grant 2004 — Authorization to purchase Park amenities in 2003 — Heise stated that there is a current balance of $34,500. The Committee reviewed the quotes for picnic tables received. Motion by Zoerb, 2 nd by Burri to accept the bid from Pilot Rock for $396 per table plus $531 per load for transportation freight and that we purchase 61 ten -gauge tables as presented, plus purchase a combination of benches and handicapped accessible tables with the balance of the funds as needed by the Parks system. Motion carried. Move Parks Department under Direction of LWCC — Administration Committee - The resolution was created but was not submitted to Administration Committee. Park User Report -2003- The Committee reviewed the report on park user fees as submitted. Heise noted that Troy Park fees were less than estimated because of high water in part of the season. Friends of Perch Lake — Heise met with the Friends group on November 18. Liability insurance was discussed and the development of a Memorandum of Understanding. Another meeting will be scheduled for December 16` They also plan to put information in local newspapers to create more awareness of the park and what it has to offer. They are not currently soliciting for the Learning/Reception center and requested the County to remove the sign showing the fund level at the entrance of the park. Heise stated that Dick Henning will work to obtain advertising on the new St. Croix County Park map. The map should be ready for distribution in the spring. 2 PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices- Fodroczi presented the November Planning bills. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Burri, to accept the revenue report of $327.00 as presented and approve the payment of the bills in the amount of $20,528.85. Motion carried. Town Planning Projects- Budrow reported that the towns of Baldwin, Hammond and Pleasant Valley are continuing well. They are developing goals and objectives for economic development. The background is mostly completed and the towns are beginning to work on cultural resources, recognizing old barns and farmhouses, the land that is part of the cultural heritage. Denzer reported that Cylon and Stanton are completing the housing goals and objectives. They are discussing the relationship with the City of New Richmond and are concerned with the Highway 64/63 project. The last Cylon meeting included a presentation by Wisconsin DOT on that project. There was also a very successful meeting with the Town of Cylon and the Deer Park Planning Commission. Cylon is beginning work on cultural resources and economic development. Fodroczi reported that the State has county and municipal population projections through 2020 with 2025 and 2030 to be added. Those projections are relatively flat for project towns. There is concern about how that would be received and the implications for the plan relative to what other ideas and thoughts the plan commissioners have. Local projections are largely a mathematical exercise that is driven by formulas that look at extending the trends of the last 20 years with some weight on the trend of the last ten years over the next 10 -20 years. The plan commissions must take into consideration how the projections are made by the State. Fodroczi, along with Jensen, Fisher and Heise, attended a recent Erin Prairie Plan Commission meeting. A staff member of the Department of Agriculture spoke about farmland preservation programs. The Town is considering modifying or totally removing the ag zoning district. Eight to ten property owners were in attendance. The Town of Emerald is continuing to meet. The Town recently requested copies of the County Plan for the Town Plan Commission members that they plan to review. Fodroczi will attend the January meeting. A Met Council staff representative will meet today with the Planning staff on new developments and policy changes and what impact we may expect in St. Croix County. Regional Wastewater Issues- We are continuing to look for financial opportunities. A major opportunity came up recently. An EPA grant program, the Watershed Initiative Grant, provides for substantial funding for watershed level projects. The average grant from last year was $3/4 million. Two nominations can be submitted per state and must be nominated by governors. Exempt from that two per state limitation are multi -state projects or projects involving state and tribal governments. There is interest within the Wisconsin DNR generated through the St. Croix Basin Research Team that includes involvement from Minnesota, Wisconsin and federal agencies. Because of our connections with the district DNR office on wastewater efforts, the door is open to incorporate that in larger bi -state involvement. One or two of the tribes are also 3 involved, so there is a lot of interest and a lot of momentum to get a substantial portion or all of the work program we have laid out on this regional wastewater issue. Jerry Chasteen of Regional Planning, John Paddock of DNR Eau Claire and Fodroczi will attend a scoping session on December 10 in St. Croix Falls. The intergovernmental multi -level involvement is already in place, so this project would be above and beyond that of a two -state level project. The DNR is optimistic about the outcome. We had an appropriation of $10,000 this year to be allocated and used for support of this kind of effort. $2,500 of that was committed for the groundwater quality monitoring effort done by USGS leaving $7,500 of the 2003 funds unspent. Fodroczi requested the Committee's permission to carry that balance over into 2004. The Watershed Initiative Grant will require a 25% match. With no other funds available, the agency putting that effort together will need to scrape together any possible matching funds. Since this will be a $1 million project, $250,000 is needed to match. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Jensen to designate $7,500, the remainder of the fund, to carry over to 2004 for potential use of matching grant funds for upcoming grant applications. Motion carried. Land Information Program- Budrow reported that we now have a land information website on the internal county intranet with mapping and tax access for the Real Property system both available. Search can be done on properties and maps. A demo was given for the Land Information Committee. Comments and suggestions were relayed to the project consultants. After all revisions are complete, the website will be available to everyone on the county network. The Land Information Committee also looked at data distribution policies and privacy policies. Wisconsin Land Information Association's data distribution policy was reviewed as well as an example from Ozaukee County for some options. A report will be developed from those two items to bring to this committee for review with various options that we see could be implemented for going on the internet with this application. Project updates include parcel mapping. Budrow met with the City of New Richmond staff which will assist with a project for that city. The Roberts Village Clerk is providing parcel identification numbers for maps and we also have a grant from Wisconsin Land Information program to complete that. An intern from the UW -River Falls will do some of the GIS work. After completion, the parcel mapping will be available on the internet application. Some of this is now being used by Zoning staff and Real Property. Other projects are the orthophotography that will occur next spring. Budrow and Fodroczi will have a phone conference with the USGS state liaison on mapping projects like this. Funding is being sought for a higher accuracy aerial photo project. There have been several meetings with the towns and villages and, while they are interested, they are on a different budgeting schedule. A RFP will be developed in the next month. Property Tax processing — After some early delays this year in getting the printer calibrated and importing the electronic file from the City of Hudson, tax processing was started on December 2. At this time 15 of the 35 municipalities are complete and the balance should be finished next week. 4 Stillwater Bridge Comments— Fodroczi reported on the recent scoping meeting and the committee reviewed the handout from that meeting. Public comments to determine which of the six project alternatives will be considered are due on December 10. Motion by Luckey, 2 by Burn to accept Alternative basic B, the plan that includes a new four - lane bridge, for the following reasons: It is the plan favored by the Town of St. Joseph and accepted by the residents; economic decisions have already been made based on this plan; it is the least disruptive to existing residents in the Town; it utilizes the pre- existing gully at the Buckhorn site; it minimizes environmental impact on Wisconsin property; and the County Board has indicated favoring a new bridge. Motion carried. Fodroczi will draft a letter stating these comments. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Luckey to request that Tim Ramberg inform this committee on a regular basis of decisions, upcoming issues and public hearings so committee members have a direct line to the bridge project. Motion carried. Fodroczi will draft a letter to Ramberg. Land Use Legislation— The Committee reviewed a chart of Pending Legislative Land Use Bills from the Wisconsin Counties Association. The bills deal with a variety of planning, zoning and related issues and the chart gives a summary and current status of each. Some of the bills that would repeal or make changes to the comprehensive planning statutes have been to hearing. Several bills were sponsored by specific legislators in response to specific constituents or interest groups. The most constructive thing to do is to let our legislators know that comprehensive plan statutes may be improved, but need to be constructive and complete and to support those bills that give consideration to the larger impact. The current status of each bill is available on the Legislature's website. Regarding the Rock County case, Fodroczi stated that it is being reviewed by a committee of County Planning Directors including the Rock County Planning Director. That committee will develop and propose remedial legislation that will be brought to the directors' home counties for support when available. ORDINANCE DEVELOPMENT Nonmetallic Mining— Rod Eslinger is checking with Planners Advisory Service on code amendments and will have data ready for the December 23 meeting. Subdivision Ordinance /Sanitary Code— The Committee agreed to meet on January 8 from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., January 15 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., and January 22 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. to review the draft Subdivision Ordinance. ZONING BUSINESS No municipal plats submitted. Discussion of Shoreland Revisions to NR 115 — The committee has reviewed information regarding a listening session to NR 115. This is the pre -step to the public hearing comments on this document. Zoning staff will complete the questionnaire then distribute to committee members for review before submitting it. Deadline for submission is December 31. The Committee recessed at 12:20 p.m. for lunch and to do the viewings. The chairman adjourned the meeting at 2:40 p.m. Respectfully submitted: 4 .d,y Olson, Recording Secretary Lois Burn, Secretary I