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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 01-08-02AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE MEETING TO: Tom Dorsey, St. Croix County Board Chairperson FROM: Ron Raymond, Chairperson COMMITTEE TITLE: Planning, Zoning & Parks DATE OF MEETING: Tuesday, January 8, 2002 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: St Croix County Government Center Annual Report* 1101 Carmichael Rd Hudson WI Room 1281 CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT MEETING 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Homestead Parklands c. Hunting Policy Update d. Park Manager's Report e. Troy Park FEMA 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Tax Processing Report c. Town Planning Projects e b&visiea Ord inaae d. e. T ev,% Land Information Program f. LESA Work Group g. Annual Report* 3. Zoning Business a. Viewings b. Municipal Plats 4. General Business* a. 2002 Goals and Objectives* 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: January 3, 2002 cc: County Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, County Clerk, Committee Members J MINUTES PLANNING, ZONING AND PARKS COMMITTEE ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON, WI JANUARY 8, 2002 Present: Supervisors Ron Raymond, Linda Luckey, Art Jensen, Gerald Larson and Buck Malick. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Brett Budrow, Steve Fisher, Joe Grant, Pete Kling and Judy Kahler. Guests: Mark Vanasse. Chair Raymond called the meeting to order at 9:10 a.m. Motion to adopt agenda was made by Jensen, seconded by Larson and carried. The next Planning, Zoning and Parks meeting is scheduled for Jan. 9 th at the Government Center. Two other meetings were scheduled, one for Jan. 15 to review a rezoning and another for Jan. 18 for a closed session on employee evaluations. January 22 is the regular Zoning meeting. PARK BUSINESS Bills and Invoices Motion by Malick to approve the December Park bills in the amount of $40,090.09 seconded by Jensen and carried. Homestead Parklands Grant met with Scott Ward of Bonestroo on December 14 on site to review field locations on drinking fountains, shower towers and toilets. Request for bids for Phase II and Phase III have been published. Eight contractors have paid for the bid documents. Bonestroo has on its web -site a notice for the Homestead Parklands Project. Bids will be opened here in the Government Center on January 31 at 11:00 a.m. Park staff and Scott Ward will review the bids. Grant was encouraged to share the bids with the Committee before the February 12 Planning, Zoning and Parks meeting. After the bids are opened, a vast portion of the project will become a firm figure rather than an estimate. Kling sent an email to Eunice Post, DNR last week regarding the status of the permits. He was assured that they would receive them within the end of the week, at least within a month or so. We need the permits in our hand before any spring construction can take place. Grant and Larson met with Kling and Heise regarding the phasing out of Kling's temporary duty position as project manager at Homestead. A handout outlining when the project manager should be phased out was given to the Committee. Jensen requested more discussion on the matter. Raymond said he got the impression they would like to see it end sooner rather than later. Malick indicated a progress report on fund raising, like the United Fund progress thermometer would be helpful. Mark Vanasse, Friends of Perch Lake, also liked the idea. He feels confident that the group will start construction on the Learning and Reception Center in 2003. He reported a $5,000.00 donation was received just before the end of the year. The Friends Group has received great citizen support. They would like to participate in hiring the site manager. The Committee will consult the Personnel Department to see of there are any legal or privacy impediments. The Friends Group is considering an alarm system and kitchen facilities for the Learning and Reception Center. Any changes will be reviewed with the Parks Department before the final floor plan is drafted. Land and Water Conservation has exposed school groups to the park. St. Croix Electric and Midwest Natural Gas have already buried service to the site of the Learning and Reception Center. Ameritech phone service will be buried this spring. Grant has reviewed amenities. Orders should be placed after the bid opening. Personnel put the new site manager position for Homestead Parklands on the Internet as well as notifying many other agencies. Starting date is April 1 st, 2002. On December 10 a meeting was held at the Ag. Center to discuss habitat restoration Nine people attended. A second meeting took place on -site on Dec. 14 The bad news is that the Park has a very degraded ecosystem with numerous non - native species present. The good news is that there are numerous wide - spreading, mature oak trees, which is a good start toward oak savanna restoration. There are five communities present; prairie, oak savanna, oak woodland, oak forest and the pine plantations. A map of the plant communities was handed out. Kathy Nelson and Harvey Halverson from the Baldwin DNR Office, will prepare a habitat restoration plan. The plan will address timber sales, oak release, prairie seeding, buckthorn/box elder removal, selective cuts for pine stands, prescribed burns, and oak savanna restoration measures. Grant contacted Dave Crawford, Naturalist at Wild River in Chisago County, Minnesota. Crawford commented that oak savanna is one of the most attractive of all habitats. Due to its popularity for housing and agriculture, it is now one of the least common ecosystems on the earth. St. Croix County has a tremendous opportunity to showcase an oak savanna restoration. Oak savanna restoration can be accomplished using a phasing approach. The Friends group is very interested in habitat restoration. The examples can be used for interpretive and educational programs. We can get rid of non - native species. If we do no habitat restoration we will forfeit $27,000 in grant money. Hunting Policy Update There was not a lot of hunting pressure during bow season and very little for muzzle loading. It was estimated that 12 -15 deer were taken during the nine -day deer gun season. Dave Larson will attend the Sportsman Alliance meeting this evening and report the reaction. To minimize liability, it may be appropriate to stay closed next year during the regular gun season and open only for late bow and muzzleloading seasons. 2 Troy Park FEMA Plans for Troy Park are at Humphrey Engineering in Woodville. Plans will be submitted by Jan. 15 to Zoning for review with the Board of Adjustment on February 28 We received an advance payment from FEMA in the amount of $25,631.76. Park Manager's Report There has been no snowmobile activity due to lack of snow. Grant reported our County does not have many problems with ATV's. Last year's snowmobile bills in the amount of $99,462.00 were paid in three installments. The State approved a new snowmobile trail from Boardman to Erin Corners and we will receive State monies. The County now has 203.6 miles of trail. Robert's Knight Riders are in charge of updating snowmobile maps. Aerators are now up and running on Pine Lake. They were installed on Jan. 2nd and Jan. 4 Pine Lake is a very popular spot for ice fishing, sledding, ice skating, snowmobile and cross - country skiing. The bid for the new pickup truck was awarded on September l l The truck was to be delivered in seven to ten weeks. Corp Counsel insisted that we have the specifications of the accepted bid or better. The truck has finally been delivered at the bid price with a few more options. Bids will be opened in March 2002 for new playground equipment for the Group Area at Glen Hills Park. A handout entitled "2002 Top Goals of the Planning, Zoning and Parks Committee" was distributed by Raymond for Committee review at a future meeting. No discussion took place. Break at 10:35 a.m. Resume at 10:45 a.m. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices Fodroczi presented Planning Bills for the month of December in the amount of $5,841.42. After review of the Revenue Report, a motion was made by Malick, seconded by Jensen and carried to approve bills as presented. Tax Processing Report Fodroczi reported that the Real Property target date for completion of tax processing was December 15 All but five municipal tax packages were done by the 13 The remaining five packages were delayed by late Boards of Review. The City of Hudson was out on the 18 and the Town of Hudson on the 19 The City of New Richmond budget was not approved until December 17 River Falls was processed on the 26 of December. 3 There were some issues with the Village of Baldwin. The tax mill rates were given to the County without the TIF districts included. After approval from the Department of Revenue, the County re -ran a second revised tax package that went out on the 27 of December. Fodroczi believes the Village of Baldwin made an honest error by eliminating the TIF districts from the mill rate /certification letter. Some of the taxpayers had already paid their taxes before the second statement was sent. Equipment, software and staffing went really well during the tax season. Fodroczi feels servicing the equipment just before we start the season helps immensely. There were actually times that we were waiting for local officials to bring in documentation or information to keep the process moving. Fodroczi explained the process that Real Property Department uses to produce the tax statements. The treasurers collect the taxes, while the Real Property staff does all the preparation and publication of the tax statements and related reports. Town Planning Projects Six towns have agreements with the Planning Department to prepare their town plans. Budrow is working with Baldwin, Pleasant Valley and Hammond. Not all the surveys are in place for those towns yet. Denzer and Janke will work with Cylon, Erin Prairie and Stanton to get the process started. Fodroczi reported new activity in Emerald. They have an ad hoc committee on smart growth. Fodroczi and Janke will hold a meeting with the Town of Richmond. Notification of the preliminary meeting was sent in the tax statements. The town has lots of building activity. Kinnickinnic has contacted Janke while Denzer has talked to Cady. Bob Pinkston who is chairman of the Planning Commission, visited with Denzer about maps and label costs. He is very concerned about commercial and industrial development and zoning for the town. Fodroczi said the results of the grant applications that were submitted for the town plans should be known in the next couple of weeks. He is confident a good product was sent. Land Information Program Budrow reviewed the progress map with the committee for the parcel map conversion project. SDS has two towns complete. We have been comparing the information with the real property database. Our mapping technician Renee Potter mapped the Town of Forest in AutoCad. Fodroczi referred to her experience as extremely valuable for the conversion as she drew the original lines for the maps. Budrow said that a demonstration with Potter could possibly be done next month if more information comes back from SDS. Raymond said the Committee has a busy schedule this month and would like to pick a day certain when those tasks are complete. LESA Work Group The workgroup completed the Land Evaluation portion in December. Another meeting is scheduled for Thursday to do final review of the results of that portion and begin the process of developing the Site Assessment portion. Budrow also gave the Pleasant Valley Plan Commission a preview of the application of the draft Land Evaluation portion. He applied the rating process to Plan Commission members' properties and properties under consideration for recent or pending rezonings. Budrow said that process did validate the project. 4 The workgroup goal is to have the completed LESA system to this Committee and to the Land and Water Conservation Committee for action by this building season. Both committees will be very involved. The meetings will be accelerated to meet the goals and timelines set by the group. Annual Report Fodroczi must give his annual report before County Board on January 15 He asked the Committee if they had any recommendations that he might add to his ideas. Some members had ideas that Fodroczi took under consideration. Malick requested that he be Fisher's alternate on the Land Use Advisory Group for the DNR Lower St. Croix model ordinance. Chairman Raymond appointed Malick with no objection from this committee. Fodroczi mentioned the workshop that he will attend February 21st in Dresser on protecting the St. Croix River from sediment and nutrients. He will give a presentation on the delineation of environmental corridors in the County Plan. The Committee recessed the formal part of the meeting to do the tour at 12:12 p.m. Motion by Jensen, second by Luckey to adjourn at 3:00 p.m. O(t4�� &a u y Kahler, Reco ing Secretary C. W. Malick, Secretary