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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 09-11-01 a AMENDED 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, September 11, 2001 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 AGE A: ACTION ON PREVI US MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT ME TING 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invokes b. Homestead P klands c. Wildwood Trail -Tracy Helgeson & Cedar Corporation d. Truck Quote/Purchase e. FEMA -Troy Eeach & Wildwood Trail f. Watershed Maintenance g. Hunting Policy h. 2002 Budget- tewardship Grant i. Park Managers Report j. Any Other Par Business 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoies b. Town Plans c. Census/Redistrcting d. Land Information Program e. State Budget f. Land Evaluatioln & Site Assessment (LESA) System g. Transportation Studies 3. Zoning Business a. Viewings b. Carpenter Na re Center* c. Tower Ordina ce Discussion* d. Rezoning Sche ule ** AGENDA ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING ANNOUNCEMENTS CORRESPONDENCE ADJOURNMENT (This agenda not necess 'ly presented in this order.) *Items added or revised r amended agenda. Submitted by: St. Cro County Planning Department Date: Septe ber 7, 2001 cc: Coun Board Office, News Media/Notice Board, Coun Clerk, Committee Members II MINUTES PLANNING, ZONING AND PARKS COMMITTEE St. Croix County Government Center, Hudson, WI SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 PRESENT: Sup v isors Art Jensen, Buck Malick, Gerald Larson and Linda Luckey. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Ellen Denz r, Brett Budrow, Steve Fisher, Joe Grant, Pete Kling, Debbie Zimmerman and Judy Kahler. Guests: Donna Mae Seim. ABSENT: Ron Rayntiond, excused. Vice -Chair Jensen calked the meeting to order at 9:03 a.m. Motion by Malick, seconded by Jensen to adopt the agenda and carried. Minutes/Meeting Dates Minutes of June 26 and August 14 were distributed to the Committee for review. County Boar of Supervisors will meet October 10 and October 23r Planning, Zoning and Parks will meet October 10t at 10 a.m. The second meeting of the month will be held October 23 at 9:00 a.m. PARK BUSINESS Bills and Invoices nt reviewed the Pember Excavating and Highway bill with the Committee. Motion by Malick, se and by Luckey to approve Park bills of $69,139.86 carried. Homestead Parklan s Kling presented a revised graph of the Homestead Parklands Schedule that was updated on Septembe 10 He noted the park opening that was scheduled for May of 2002 would now be late August 2002. D delays caused Phase II to be off schedule. Phase II bid was nearly $300,000.00 over estimate. The H mestead Park team made a decision to cut Phase II by $234,000.00 and Phase III by $177,00.00. Kling 's expecting the DNR permits to arrive within the next week. The permits would expire in two years. When the beach and erosion control is completed Bonestroo's work will be completed. They willielp with the design of the visitor center and some other things. Park staff will bid Phase III amenities, b t will leave some money for installation next year. Kling would like to eid his involvement sometime before the park opening. Kling sees the next few months being a critica time working with Pember. A State permit is needed for a public visitor center. We will use a Bonestroo engineer to do the preliminary visitor center design which will be used by the Friends Group. The final design will come from Bonestroo. Items in the amount of $234,000.00 were cut from Phase II and $177,000.00 from Phase III, pushing the opening date back to rnid -late summer of 2002. Kling stated that they have trimmed Homestead Park budget as close as they can and still have a nice County park. It was noted that under this revised plan, our Park staff will do tbe installation work. The new hires will be critical. A presentation will b given to the County Board September 18 and a bus tour through the George Sinclair Memorial Transportation Fund is scheduled for 11:15 a.m. Satellites are available for the tour. It was agreed that we 4 post a notice that skiing on marked trails and the road only would be at the publics' own risk. Wildwood Trail -Tracy Helgeson & Cedar Corporation Grant furnished a copy of a letter from Helgeson received on August 22 " Helgeson wants the County to obtain permission from him to maintain and improve the trail, specifically the mowing. Grant contacted Corporation Counsel and responded to Helgeson by letter. The County's position has not changed regarding ownership of the Wildwood Trail. The County has ownership by adverse possession. Cedar Corporation wanted to do some ditch work by the trail on 250 St. Permission was granted to put a ditch along 250 St. because of ponding in a subdivision. Cedar Corporation did the engineering with work being done by the Woodville Village crew. Grant stated no impact on the right of way or surface on the trail was noted. Truck Quote Grant contacted Anderson Ford. We are unable to get the same deal as we had with them in January. Requests for truck bids with specifications were sent to the same 13 dealers as the first time. Eight bids were returned. Menomonie Chrysler did not meet deadlines. Routson Motors in Stillwater met specifications and was low bid. Discussion. Motion to accept low bid from Routson Motors for a 2002 GMC Sierra 1500 truck by Luckey, second by Larson and carried. FEMA —Troy Beach & Wildwood Trail The bather -change house wall is built at Troy Beach. The old roof and the interior have been hauled away. The rip rap mitigation project has not been approved yet. If approved, the rip rap mitigation project will take place next winter. Watershed Maintenance Grant noted a substantial amount of flood debris at all dams. Two of the dams were hit hard because of heavy rains August 1. Grant noted that on August 1 Glen Hills Park received 5 1/2 inches of rain. Ten inches of rain had fallen just north of Glenwood City. Dam #8 came within 3'of topping over. Three /four feet of water went through the emergency spillway. In a thirty-five year history, this is the first time Grant has ever seen any water in the spillway. Dam #8 has a 20 -acre reservoir. Dam #7 had 17 V2 ft. of water behind it. Some of the dams are thirty-five years old. All other dams seem to be fine. Bob Heise got $10,000.00 to repair flood damage. Hunting Policy Mike Reiter, Sportsmans' Alliance, has reviewed the revised hunting policy. The Golf Course will not participate in any hunting on their land. Notice will be sent to the neighboring landown- ers that border Glen Hills Park. Hunting will be in shaded area only. There will not be a news release. 2002 Budget- Stewardship Grant Grant met with the County Administrator on August 29. No word has been received on the Stewardship Grant. We are waiting for the approval of the State budget first. Park Manager's Report Specifications have been drawn for the new well at Glen Hills. Tim Hanson, Water Specialist for the DNR, has reviewed the specs. September 21 is the deadline for submission of the bids. Well drillers are very busy. A conventional well will be drilled. If there are problems, then we may need a filtration system. There are no records on the old well. Park staff will seal the old well and submit a report to the DNR. Recess at 10:20 a.m.- Resume 10:40 a.m. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices The August Revenue Report of $265.35 was reviewed. Motion to approve Planning Bills for the month of August for $2,438.19 made by Larson, seconded by Malick and carried. 2 • Town Plans Fodro zi presented the "final agreement and resolution authorizing planning assistance agreements between Ithe St. Croix County Planning Department and St. Croix County communities." The Committee reviewed the changes. Corporation Counsel has reviewed the agreement and had no reservations. Malick moved the resolution and agreement be forwarded to the County Board for approval, seconded by Jensen and carried. t�ommittee members present signed the Resolution. Budrow and Denzer will attend hearings in Eau Clare Friday on rules governing planning assistance grants and a workshop on how to handle those. A smart growth wo kshop for town officials is being held at the Baldwin Extension Office with Jim Janke to develop pl ing commissions. Janke, along with other specialists and agents in other counties, is also working on a odel public participation plan, which will enable towns to do their local plan. Census/Redistricting Denzer reported that the Redistricting project is completed. It has been e- mailed and mailed to the State. Wall maps were made for each community. Denzer will put major roads, town name and municipal limits on the maps right after the spring election. Most maps have now been distributed. Fodrocz' complimented Denzer's work with the project. She had previous experience with the Redistricting and that, along with the computer system working well, really helped to move things forward. Land Information rogram Budrow is working on a pilot project for the parcel map conversion project. Some of the arcels are in Troy and in Baldwin. We have accepted the pilot with the reservation that we could make hanges to our data base design. We are working with SDS on those designs. The linework and annotations are complete and checked. Budrow showed a map from the Town of Cylon after completion. All the parcels have been put on one map. Maps are in color and the red indicates a CSM. There will be many, many maps that have been checked and verified. After the town work is completed, the cities ';and villages will be done. Some Committee Members expressed privacy concerns. We have the capacity to withhold any information. Fodroczi indicated the privacy issue is one of the most important for any public agency that distributes data via the Internet. We need to carefully review those concerns and resolve those issues before public distribition. State Budget Fodroczi reviewed information taken directly from the Governor's veto message. Fodroczi noted an increase in land record fees and in planning grant funds. Forestry will not be a separate department of the LNR. Jensen mentioned that the Hay River watershed project was extended for another four years. Land Evaluation & Site Assessment (LESA) System We were invited through Land and Water Conservation staff to meet with NRCS staff, particularly Larry Natzke, who worked with us on the land evaluation portion when looking at the soil information as part of the County Plan. A work group will b( formed with some farmers, local officials and County staff. Luckey will represent this Committee. The group would meet this fall and winter for several months every few weeks with about a dozen people involved. Site assessment will be a separate issue. The group will work to establish a site assessment formula that this Committee would be satisfied using countywide and how to integrate it with the individual owns. 3 Transportation Studies These studies were previously reviewed. Highway 35 from Troy to River Falls is being considered for conversion to a freeway design. Fodroczi will monitor that process. Ayres and Associates (of Eau Claire) are under contract for an access study for all of Highway 65 and a look at alternative routes around Roberts. Fodroczi will update the Committee as the projects continue. ZONING BUSINESS Carpenter Nature Center A resolution in support of the Carpenter St. Croix Valley Nature Center Troy Conservancy Coalition Addition was shown to the Committee. The resolution was drafted by Corpora- tion Counsel. Malick moved to adopt this resolution as presented, seconded by Jensen and carried. Fisher mentioned that Shawna Moe will leave the Zoning Office for a position in the Sheriff's office. Glad Meyer will retire on November 2nd of this year. This will leave two positions open. Fisher is working with Personnel to have the job description and entry salary updated. By motion of Larson, seconded by Jensen the formal portion of the meeting was recessed at 12:05 p.m. to view requested rezonings. Motion carried. The meeting adjournment at 4:00. 1 � 4tLf u. y Kahler, ' ecor. 'ng Secretary Clarence W. Malick, Secretary 4