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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 10-08-02TO: FROM: COMMITTEE TITLE: DATE OF MEETING: TIME: LOCATION: CALL TO ORDER: AMENDED ST.CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTEE Clarence Malick, St. Croix County Board Chairperson Art Jensen, Chairperson Planning, Zoning & Parks Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2002 9:00 a.m. St. Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Rd Hudson WI Room 1281 ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT MEETING 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Homestead Parklands c. Parks Director Report d. Parks Reorganization 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Town Planning Projects c. Troy Subdivision Ordinance* d. Transportation Projects e. Regional Wastewater Issues f. Land Information Program g. Personnel* 3. Zoning Business a. Municipal Plats b. Viewings AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS 7 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: October 3, 2002 Cc: County Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, County Clerk, Committee Members MINUTES PLANNING, ZONING AND PARKS COMMITTEES ST. CROIX COUNTY GOVERNMENT CENTER, HUDSON WI OCTOBER 8, 2002 PRESENT: Chair Art Jensen, Supervisors Jan Zoerb, Veronica Anderson, and Lois Burri. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Joe Grant, Dave Larson, Ellen Denzer, Brett Budrow and Steve Fisher. Guests: Donna Seim and Bill Berndt. ABSENT: Linda Luckey, excused. Chair Jensen called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. Motion to adopt the agenda made by Burri, 2 nd by Anderson and carried. Motion by Zoerb, 2 nd by Anderson to table minutes until Oct. 15 th . Meeting Dates and Minutes Planning, Zoning and Parks will meet on October 15 at the Ag. Center in Baldwin at 9:00 a.m. On October 22„ d, Planning, Zoning and Parks will meet at the Government Center at 9:00 a.m. PARKS BUSINESS Bills and Invoices Grant presented a new bill list to the Committee and reviewed the new entries. Motion by Zoerb, 2 nd by Burri to pay the Park Bills as presented. Motion carried. Homestead Parklands Larson noted the Highway Department completed the erosion control measures at Homestead in 4 1 /2 days. Larson is very happy with their work. The cul -de -sac radius was re- established by Highway making a real difference. The Highway Department was thanked for its prompt service and work on the repairs. McCabe has the well and paving to complete yet. They will reassess the weather before they make a decision on paving at noon today. Larson sees no reason that McCabe cannot meet their October 18 deadline. Timme needs to get the trails seeded yet. Additional dogwoods and willows will be planted in the spring, as the crib wall is longer than originally planned. Final grading on the roads will be done next week with a three inch matt. When asked about the budget on this project, the bid came in about $448,750.00 and the estimated cost now is $492,400.00. They are 9.7% over contract. They are sure the cost is up because of the change order which included improved trails, crushed rock, beach access trail, extension of the crib wall and the well had to be moved for expansion of the reception center. Larson added the water line for the visitor center under the road, so no further disturbance of the road in the future would be needed. Parks budgeted 5% in the contingency fund. Costs overrun will come out of the Perch Lake funds. Dan Cain, from Pheasants Forever, and Jay Custer, NRCS, will do a prescribed burn next month. Larson is waiting for call from someone he solicited. Zoerb volunteered the name of Greg Miller, as he is fully trained and looks for burning experience. Larson will get his number after the meeting. We are fortunate the DNR will let us use their equipment for that burn. The installation of the sign for the park will be tomorrow at 1:00 p.m. Kelly Massie; a local contractor will help install the amenities. The gate at 53` street will be picked up tomorrow and installed. Larson has only one future concern and that is the parking. When planning the park plans called for 53 stalls in the park and 5 out of the park, not counting the visitor center. We will be short some parking stalls. Zoerb felt that there should be signage to reflect the opening date of the park. The Committee will decide an opening date sometime this winter. The Town of St. Joseph would like to partner with the County to repair their boat landing. A town meeting will be held October 29 at 7:00 p.m. with this request. Parks will attend this meeting and report back to the Committee. Grant reminded the Committee the last time they partnered with the town, we had $20,000.00 invested and never received the promised donation of $20,000.00 to the park over a four or five year period. Grant is skeptical about getting involved again. Park Managers Report Grant reported the Troy riprap project was approved at the town level and approved at the Board of Adjustments meeting on Sept. 26 The Chapter 30 Department of Natural Resources Permit was submitted in July and was approved and will be here in about a week. Pine Lake aerators have had overhaul kits installed and Dairyland Services out of Baldwin have repaired compressors. Every two years we overhaul the aerators to make sure they are in good working order. We have done this for the past several years and find it works out great. Grant requested approval for the purchase of 10,000 brochures for about $3,000.00. Discussion. Motion by Zoerb, 2„d by Anderson to budget $3,000.00 for the printing of the new brochures. Motion carried. It was agreed that additional brochures would be needed in the future, but perhaps with the development of the park, new pictures would be available. Grant would like the full time Parks staff to attend the WI Park and Recreation Conference in Green Bay on Nov. 5 th thru Nov. 8 The Glen Hills Park will be closed and the secretary should be able to handle the office for that short time as well. Anderson suggested they attend different seminars to obtain the most knowledge and report the highlights when they return. Grant reported that there is enough money in the budget. Motion by Zoerb, 2nd by Burri to approve attendance of four full time Parks staff at the Park and Recreation Conference in Green Bay. Motion carried. 2 The group area playground is completed and grass has been planted. Next year we shall have the campground playground completed. Parks Reorganization Nothing was discussed on this item. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices The Committee reviewed and approved the Revenue Report. Fodroczi requested approval of the bills for the month of September in the amount of $3,871.42. Motion by Jensen, 2 nd by Anderson to pay bills as presented. Motion carried. Town Planning Projects An invitation for a workshop on Conservation Design was sent to the town boards, town clerks and planning commissions for the towns that are part of the Heartland Project. This workshop is being held on October 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Hammond. The workshop is based on the issues and priorities identified at several of the kick -off meetings. They are fortunate to have three speakers that are knowledgeable who have regional and local experience and involvement in rural design, rural wastewater systems and the building industry. Alicia Acken, Leroy Jansky and Bill Berndt will be our speakers. Budrow announced the first Open House for the Town of Pleasant Valley planning process will be held on October 22 Budrow passed a handout that was mailed to all Pleasant Valley homes. Their biggest concerns are minimum lot size and density. Denzer reported the return rate of the surveys for Cylon so far was not good. Burri reported not all parties received the surveys. Denzer was aware and about twenty people were shorted. Denzer did catch the mistake and mailed the balance. Twenty -five percent was the return rate for all three towns. Non - resident property owners were also given the surveys. Town of Troy Subdivision Ordinance Fodroczi reported that we were able to review the process and given an opportunity to comment. Our comments were directed on Draft 7. Last night Draft 8 was received. Fisher, Jenkins, Denzer and Fodroczi met a couple of afternoons to review with the chairman. The language was difficult, as it seemed to be drafted by several different people. We have difficulty with purpose and standards and submitted twenty different recommendations. They will look at minor changes to their ordinance. Zoerb felt that the town's subdivision ordinance could have referenced the County's. The town and the County have concurrent jurisdiction. We don't have the authority to approve or disapprove the town ordinance. Transportation Projects USH 63 94/64 Corridor realignment project is being reviewed by Strand and Associates with four or five different alignments being considered. A meeting with DOT will be held October 21 in Baldwin. We need to submit comments back to DOT by November 15 3 The I -94 Bridge Project for the westbound lane is scheduled for April thru October of next year. They will adjust the eastbound lanes to three with changeable lanes from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. We will be the only place in Wisconsin to have such lanes. Clearing on the 35/64 project on 150 "" has started. Anderson questioned Fodroczi on how receptive is the DOT to local government. Fodroczi felt we have good communications with them, much better than other districts in the state. Regional Wastewater Issues A letter was received from Willard Moeri, Village of Roberts President, regarding a response to our comments on the Emerald /Roberts facility plan for wastewater treatment improvements. Staff will look at this in greater detail. Some comments are completely inaccurate. Fodroczi will copy for the new committee members our comments on the facility plan. There was a meeting of the Regional Wastewater Commission on September 25 " ". They were able to talk about the larger issue of wastewater and wastewater planning on an area wide basis. Out of that meeting came an ad hoc workgroup that agreed to focus on developing the strategy to implement the scope of wastewater management and planning. The group will meet on Oct. 16 Land Information Program The conversion work has been returned from Smart Data Services. All the maintenance work in 2001 is complete and 2002 editing should be current by year -end. Fodroczi, Budrow and Potter attended a workshop in Wausau on Internet mapping. Policy and resolutions that were passed were given to Fodroczi. Privacy issues were taken seriously everywhere. Any information for commercial use is done by agreement of not distributing to a third party. No big effort on policing is being done at this time. National and International GIS Day is November 20 ". Fodroczi would like to do something special that day. Personnel Fodroczi announced that Judy Kahler is staying with St. Croix County because of personal reasons. Also, a union position in Finance has been eliminated as of the first of next year creating job bumping rights. The initial bumping will be the Assistant Real Property Lister and could continue to trickle down. An offer has been made by Finance to have her shadow our person before the first of the year. As Fodroczi understands it, the person whose position has been taken and the staff whose job is still there are the only people that control that bump according to union language. Fodroczi explained the complexity of the job and is concerned. He will keep the Committee informed of this situation. ZONING BUSINESS Municipal Plats Fisher did not have any municipal plats today. Fisher stated that the department called and received $30,000.00 of the Letter of Credit for Sam Miller's subdivision known as the Orchard, due to the developer's negligence in completing the subdivision per plans. Fisher noted that Miller swiftly brought the subdivision into compliance with completion of road work, final installation of stormwater areas and implementation of erosion control measures. Fisher requested $25,000.00 to be released, and $5,000.00 is to remain to ensure the site is stabilized next spring. The Committee recessed to do the tour at 11:15 a.m. Chair Jensen adjourned the meeting at 3:15 p.m. R submitted: y Kahle , Re rding Secretary 6� Lois Burri, Secretary 5