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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 02-13-01AMENDED ST. CROIX COUNTY NOTICE OF COMMITTE MEETING TO: FROM: COMMITTEE TITLE: DATE OF MEETING: TIME: LOCATION: Tom Dorsey, St. Croix County Board Chairperson Ron Raymond, Chairperson Planning, Zoning & Parks Tuesday, February 13, 2001 9:00 a.m. St Croix County Government Center 1 101 Carmichael Rd Hudson WI Room 1281 CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT MEETING Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Park Manager Report c. Homestead Park d. Snowmobile Trails e. R.F.P. for Playground & Building at Glen Hills f. Park Improvement Grant Applications* g. Any Other Business 2. Planning Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Town Plans /Grant Application c. Planner /GIS Specialist Recruitment d. Hudson Area Sewer Service Plan e. Any Other Business 3. Zoning Business* a. Rezoning Schedule* 1. Birch Park Ski Area* b. Tours* 1. Jon Schiltgen Property-Town of Troy* 2. Norm & Shirley Feyereisen Property-Town of Troy* 3. Rolland Lorentson Property-Town of Baldwin* 4. Bruce Emerson Property-Town of Star Prairie* 5. Three -Putt LLC Property-Town of Warren* 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: February 8, 2001 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 FEBRUARY 13, 2001 PRESENT: Chairperson Ron Raymond, Supervisors Linda Luckey, Gerald Larson, Art Jensen and Buck Malick. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Ellen Denzer, Joe Grant, Dave Larson, Pete Kling, and Judy Kahler. Guests: Bill Berndt and Donna Seim. Minutes /Meeting Dates The meeting was called to order at 9:00 a.m. Motion to adopt agenda by Larson, second by Jensen and carried. Motion to approve minutes of Decem- ber 20, 2000 and Jan. 4, 2001 by Larson, second by Jensen and carried. The following meetings have been scheduled: February 21 -7:00 p.m.- Government Center (Rezoning Hearing) February 26 -9:00 a.m. - Government Center (Parks) February 27 -9:00 a.m. - Government Center (Planning, Zoning, and Parks) February 28 -9:00 a.m. - Agriculture Center Baldwin (Zoning) Supervisor Malick is excused from the meetings on February 21" & February 27' Su- pervisor Luckey arrived at 9:07 a.m. PARK BUSINESS Bills and Invoices Motion by Malick to approve payment of February's bill totaling $14,670.40 second by Luckey and carried. Grant explained the details of the two large items to the Committee. Park Manager Report Parks went on -line the first part of December and has had some problems. They did pick up a virus. Computer Services had to take the hard drive. The damage was minimal. Parks has a new server with a new email address as follows: sccparks @baldwin - telecom.net. A web page has been established for Parks from the County home page. Grant described what a visitor to the site would see. The Parks staff has had training recently in Outlook and requested Excel training as well. Homestead Parklands Project Manager Pete Kling reported the Phase II Design Work on the park would be completed soon. The completion was a couple of weeks behind for this portion of the work. The design will have to be reviewed by appropriate agencies and modified before we can call it complete. Kling is working with the Highway Department, Bonestroo and Pember to extend the contract to get the work completed at the cabin site. Kling is waiting for a response from Dan Fedderly to a memo about cost overruns. He would like a better understanding of how Highway conducts its billing. He was directed after some brief discussion to Rich Loney for answers. Kling will work with Highway and others to resolve the overruns. March is the target to request money from the County Board. Kling is ready for the permit portion of the project. He met last month with the Friends group regarding the visitor center. They committed to support the financing of Plan A, which is a $400,000.00 facility. Donna Seim spoke on behalf of the Friends Group, indi- cating public concern that the County is putting the park on hold. Interest and support of the park by the public is encouraging to Seim. Getting a web -site was suggested. Grant added that on January 12 Park staff, Kling, Denzer, Donna Seim and Mark Va- nasse of the Friends group toured the Chippewa Falls Ice Age Center. All were impressed with the enthusiasm of the volunteers and the beauty of it. About twenty volunteers and only two paid employees operate the center. The facility has three wings. The National Park Service provided videos for an educational part of one of the wings. They also got some great ideas from the children's wing while there. Everyone left with enthusiasm. Chair Raymond suggested a report be done on the status of work being done on Home- stead Parklands that would promote public awareness of the project. Discusssion included distributing information throughout the County on the status of the project and fundrais- ing. Kling will work with the Friends on getting exposure to the public. Elaine Andrews, an outdoor education specialist from the University of Stevens Point, will meet with the Friends group this afternoon. Malick encouraged Seim to seek ideas from the Crex Meadows Center, Willow River Park and other facilities. Snowmobile Trails The trails have been open since December 21" except for one week in January. The maintenance program is set up for $250.00 per mile. We have 194.6 miles of trail equaling $48,650.00, which is the normal amount of encumbered monies. This year the costs for trail grooming will exceed the funds encumbered. The cost over- run will be paid on a pro -rated basis depending on how much money is available in the snowmobile aids, Supplemental Grooming Program. Some questions about the trail change that involved the Rodel property were discussed. Applications for snowmobile trail development grants are due April 15 Grant will apply. Grant accompanied Lavane Hessler from the Department of Natural Resources on Janu- ary 19 on an inspection of the snowmobile trails for about eighty -five miles. The in- spection report from her indicated the trail gooming was very good and signage was ac- ceptable. She felt the corners needed to be marked better and we need blazers especially in the agricultural areas. The DNR in general are pushing to get rid of generic "caution" signs and be more specific such as bump, dip, curves, etc. We have some extra signs on hand but will need to order more signs to replenish our inventory. R.F.P. for Playground & Building at Glen Hills An R.F.P. went out for playground equipment in the picnic area at Glen Hills Park. The deadline is March 2nd. It was re- viewed by Corporation Counsel and published in the official County newspaper. It was sent to five vendors with a budget amount of $35,000.00. 2 Another R.F.P. for a heated storage building was also sent. Grant presented copies of the proposals to the Committee. Corporation Counsel reviewed this one, too. It was sent to thirteen vendors. The Park staff will open the bids. Grant will have information to the Committee on March 13 He would like volunteers, maybe parents with small children, and someone that has experience with school playground equipment to help him decide. Malick suggested he contact Dan Roeglin from the City of Hudson for his expertise. Park Improvement Grant Applications Parks received a DNR grant application by mail and indicated they would like to apply. The application seemed to be the usual form. Deadline for applying is May 1 It requires a resolution by the County Board for appli- cation for the grant. The grant is $75,000.00 with a match from the County if received. Parks were unsuccessful last year. Grant explained the scoring system to the Committee. They will work at improving the application. Motion by Malick, second by Luckey authorizing staff to prepare two grant applications, one for a general Park Improvement and another for Homestead Parklands, and to move to County Board in March by resolution. Carried. Other Business Raymond contacted Kelly Cain from the University of Wisconsin -River Falls to act as a consultant for park reorganization. We will not be billed for these serv- ices. He indicated he did not have much time but would make recommendations. Grant was instructed to contact him. A break was taken at 10:25 a.m. until 10:40 a.m. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices The Revenue Report was reviewed. Motion by Malick to approve Planning bills for January of $17,069.08 and revenue reported at $535.50, seconded by Jensen and carried. Town Plans /Grant Application Fodroczi received word about a week and one half ago that the grant applications were not approved. He spent some time last week in Madison reviewing the reasons. We lost multi jurisdictional points because there were several separate applications from neighboring communities. Portage and Clark Counties were the two counties that had the highest scoring. Washburn County in this area received money. Buffalo County had six or seven towns together as one process but did not get funding. There were requests for $3.5 million, but there was only $2.5 million available. The ad- ministrative scoring rules will change this fall. The reviewers were largely State agency staff. Fodroczi will inform our legislators of the results. Fodroczi has met with the chairpersons and others from the three towns and all were dis- appointed but were willing to proceed, using Town funding. They will try again this fall for a grant. 3 Planner /GIS Specialist Recruitment Raymond and Fodroczi communicated during the application process. Fodroczi is very pleased that the person that was chosen is a local person and has a strong GIS background. He will delay the hiring date until April. Fodro- czi has negotiated a delay with some towns and applicants. Raymond and Fodroczi would like to proceed. Malick thought the GIS project should proceed, but the planning portion should be delayed. Fodroczi assured the Committee that he could make it work for this year. We will proceed with other options for funding and delay the start time. He assured the Committee he would continue to pursue the grant process. The Committee is interested in the GIS process and would like to have a tour to explain how the system works. Hudson Area Sewer Service Plan Denzer reported that the Village of North Hudson requested amendment of the Hudson Area Sewer Service Plan in the environmental cor- ridors. Then the developers amended to meet the plan with a net loss of two lots. There are three new proposed annexations and the developers have been informed of the envi- ronmental corridors and will now shift to another area. The City of Hudson still has an outstanding plat with 400 proposed homes called Red Cedar Canyon just off Stageline Road. The lots must be shifted as no building is allowed on evironmental corridors. It was agreed that the hardest job of the Committee and the Planning Department is to tactfully deny such requests. Denzer is willing to be part of the review process. They ex- pect to see more with the new Zoning Ordinance. We will institute a process that the de- veloper must complete more detailed information. ZONING BUSINESS Birch Park Ski Area Raymond was not sure all outstanding issues had been resolved. The developer wanted approval of the rezonement and the preliminary plat simultane- ously. Fodroczi felt it was a great opportunity to see more of the proposal prior to formal rezoning approval. He indicated the land is now zoned commercial, which would make the request to Ag- Residential, a down zoning. Fodroczi doesn't believe this will set bad precedent, as we may see more of these with complex proposals. The meeting adjourned at 11:40 a.m. to tour proposed rezomn requests. 4 udy 41KIer, e Se tart' Clarence W. Malick, Secretary 2