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HomeMy WebLinkAboutPlanning & Zoning 04-11-2000 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,April 11,2000 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: St Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Road,Hudson Wi CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT MEETING: 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Perch Lake c. Permit Applications d. Outdoor Recreation Plan e. Stewardship Grant Application for Park Improvements f. Park Manager Report g. Wildwood Trail h. Any Other Business 2. Planning Business a. Bills,Invoices and Revenue Report b. Met Council/Calthorpe Study c. Planning Law Workshop d. Development Management Plan Implementation e. Town Plans f. Real Property Lister Legislation g. Any Other Business 3. Zoning Business a. Tour-Rezoning Sites Helen Larsen Trust-Troy Paul Sylla-Troy Marvin Utecht-Baldwin James Reil-Pleasant Valley Robert Chamberlin-Baldwin b. Municipal Plats* c. Any Other Business 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: April 6,2000 cc: County Board Office News Media/Notice Board County Clerk Conmuttee Members 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,April 11,2000 TIME: 9:00 a.m. LOCATION: St Croix County Government Center 1101 Carmichael Road,Hudson Wi CALL TO ORDER: ROLL CALL: ADOPTION OF AGENDA: ACTION ON PREVIOUS MINUTES: DATE OF NEXT MEETING: 1. Park Business a. Bills and Invoices b. Perch Lake c. Permit Applications d. Outdoor Recreation Plan e. Stewardship Grant Application for Park Improvements f. Park Manager Report g. Wildwood Trail h. Any Other Business 2. Planning Business a. Bills,Invoices and Revenue Report b. Met Council/Calthorpe Study c. Planning Law Workshop d. Development Management Plan Implementation e. Town Plans f. Real Property Lister Legislation g. Any Other Business 3. Zoning Business a. Tour Helen Larsen Trust-Troy Paul Sylla-Troy Marvin Utecht-Baldwin James Reil-Pleasant Valley Robert Chamberlin-Baldwin b. Any Other Business 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 29,2000 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 APRIL 11,2000 PRESENT: Chairperson Ron Raymond, Supervisors Gerald Larson, Linda Luckey and Art Jensen. Staff: Dave Fodroczi, Ellen Denzer, Steve Fisher, Mary Jenkins, Joe Grant, Dave Larson and Judy Kahler. Guests: County Administrative Co-ordinator Charles Whiting, County Board Chairman Tom Dorsey, Supervisor Art Jacobson, Met. Council Representative Bob Mazanec, Donna Seim and Bill Rubin. ABSENT: Dave Hense excused. Chairperson Ron Raymond called the meeting to order at 9:04 a.m. Motion by Supervisor Jensen, seconded by Supervisor Larson to adopt the agenda.Motion carried. Minutes/Meeting Dates Motion by Luckey, seconded by Jensen to approve minutes of March 28d' with minor revisions. Motion carried. Action on the balance of several sets of minutes was delayed until the meeting on April 12`h Hearing concerning the Outdoor Recreation Plan and Rezonements will be held in the Community Room of the Government Center at 7:00 p.m. on April 12, 2000. The County Board will meet on April 18ffi for the election of officers and committee members. The second meeting of the month of the Planning,Zoning and Parks will be held on April 25, 2000 at 9:00 a.m. A rezonement hearing has been scheduled for May 3rd in Baldwin. PLANNING BUSINESS Bills and Invoices The Committee reviewed the Revenue Report. Planning Director Dave Fodroczi requested payment of planning bills in the amount of$3,318.96 for March.Motion by Supervisor Jensen, seconded by Supervisor Larson to approve planning bills as submitted. Motion carried. Met CounciUCalthorpe Study Fodroczi introduced Bob Mazanec of the Metropolitan Council staff and gave a brief history of the Calthorpe Study. Mazanec presented summary information on the results of the study. Calthorpe Associates of Berkeley, California was retained by the Met Council to prepare a development design study as a local planning assistance tool. The study focused mainly on areas in Washington and St. Croix Counties affected by the relocated St. Croix River Bridge and improvements in the Minnesota 36- Wisconsin 64 Corridor. The study had six specific opportunity sites representing an array of development situations. These sites were North St. Paul, Lake Elmo, Stillwater, and Oak Park Heights in Minnesota. New Richmond and the Town of St. Joseph were the study areas in Wisconsin. The development situations and sketch plans were intended to be tranferable to other locations with similar development challenges and opportunities. Mazanec presented a "before and after" picture of the main intersection in New Richmond. A large 1 bound color booklet was reviewed by Mazanec and the Committee. The report included a summary of concepts and principles for designing walkable, livable, transit friendly neighborhoods; rural cluster development; an overview of the forecasted growth in the two county study area; a summary of results from a citizens workshop held in the St. Croix Valley; text and sketches illustrating how principles apply to sites; and appendices. Discussion. Mazanec stressed the need to be an advocate for planning. Mazanec indicated that job opportunities is a very important concept in residential growth. He also recommended the County do a market study. The need for senior housing was discussed briefly. Mazanec stated that no hard analysis on the subject has been done. Monies for senior housing studies may be available from the new Planning Legislation Funds. The report is available by website or contacting the Met. Council Regional Data Center. The Committee took a break at 9:45 and called the meeting to order again at 9:55. Planning Law Workshop Fodroczi has been trying to get a session with this Committee and local officials together to discuss Smart Growth. Fodroczi discovered Senator Clausing's office has already started to organize a workshop for this area. Clausing still has not finalized a date for this meeting. Chairman Raymond indicated sessions on briefings on the subject of Smart Growth will be held in LaCrosse and Wausau in May. Development Management Plan Implementation Fodroczi will be specific on the Development Management Plan implementation at next month's meeting. Some discussion was held concerning the increase of minimum lot sizes from one to two acres. If that change is to be made the subdivision and zoning ordinances will be affected. The Committee agrees with staff that the density must be amended in the new ordinance to become law. Fodroczi will prepare a draft with changes regarding the changes from one acre to two acre minimum lot size for the next meeting of the Planning, Zoning and Parks Committee. Fodroczi believes that we should give the minimum lot size change some thought. The Committee agrees to have staff prepare changes for next meeting. Town Plans This should be a spin-off from the County Management Plan and Legislation. Legislation is out there to implement and combine smart growth into the town plans. Fodroczi indicated that we need to have some program implemented to assist the towns in creating a town land use plan. Discussion. The Towns Association will meet on April 27"' and perhaps the County will indicate their willingness to help the towns on their plans. Some towns have indicated they are prepared to move forward in establishing a town plan now. Fodroczi believes we need to help the towns establish a town plan. We also need to iron out how to staff it,how to finance it, and how to schedule it. We need to get structured. He also indicated that he might need another staff person. There is funding available from the State, but we must put it together. Fodroczi would like to approach the towns concerning what/where they would like the County to help them. Supervisor Jensen indicated the need to give the towns hope we will be there this year. Real Property Lister Legislation Fodroczi reported a change in legislation regarding the notices of assessment. We now must send a notice of assessment for any change in value-up or down. New legislation has put the department on a tighter time frame. Now instead of having to get the notice of assessment to the taxpayer within 10 days before the Board of Review,now it must be 15 days before they meet. It will increase our workload with 2 more staff time, supply expenses and mailing costs. Assessors will be spending more money because of the change also. This was passed as part of last year's budget repair bill. Discussion. Fodroczi believes this change to be senseless and wasteful. The Committee agreed with Fodroczi regarding the legislation. PARK BUSINESS Bills and Invoices Parks Director Joe Grant requested payment of bills for the month of April in the amount of$9,434.33. Motion by Luckey, seconded by Jensen to approve payment of bills as submitted. Motion carried. Perch Lake Park The Highway Department started the clearing and grubbing at the entrance of Homestead Park on March 20'h. The earthmovers arrived on April 3rd. Brief discussion on encounter with neighbor. Grant has been in touch with St. Croix Electric and Ameritech and Midwest Natural Gas. If lighting is to be added to the entrance we will need to have a separate service box installed. Grant will not have that installed at this time. Martell Well Drilling extracted water from the on site shallow well for testing. If the test indicates we must chlorinate, we could have fish and grass kill. On the advice of the Committee, the well will be closed. Land and Water Conservation will help close down the well. Perch Lake water levels are about 12-14"down from last fall. Donna Seim, President of Friends of Perch Lake Park, reported digging about 100 small trees before earth moving began. She had a crew of forty 4H and Scout volunteers to replant those trees elsewhere. We will receive free prairie seeds from Pete Kling. There is some surveying being completed along the beach access trail and the soil erosion along the bank. When completed,Bonestroo will get the plat. They will then re-evaluate Phases I, II, and III. Grant also reported the contract with Bonestroo and Associates is in place. They will do some fieldwork and will re-evaluate the plan. We will be contacted when that evaluation takes place. Grant has not received any negative calls on the digging for the Park. Permit Applications Grant has four projects this spring as reported previously. He has been to all the towns involved and the Board of Adjustment. He has not had any problems. The Department of Natural Resources Chapter 30 permits we are still waiting for. They are looking at mid-June for decisions on that matter. Outdoor Recreation Plan Planner Ellen Denzer has the final draft completed. Denzer is expecting a low turnout for the Public Hearing scheduled tomorrow evening at 7:00 p.m. A copy of the Outdoor Recreation Plan was sent to all County Board members. The presentation to the County Board will be short due to County Board restructuring.Denzer will stress the time constraints for the grants for this project. L Stewardship Grant Application for Park Improvements Grant and Denzer met on March 28d'. Grant spoke to Jake VanderVoort concerning the grant. He advised them to include everything as the grant will score higher when written. The D.N.R. Grant could mean about $306,000.00 in grant dollars. It was noted that Grant will request a large dollar amount for park improvements in the 2001 budget. 3 The Committee approved resolutions for the Outdoor Recreation Plan, Perch Lake Grant Application and Glen Hills. This will be presented to the County Board for final approval on April 18th. Motion by Supervisor Larson, seconded by Supervisor Luckey to approve the resolutions. Motion carried. Wildwood Trail Grant reported the Finance Committee met yesterday. A request from Williams Communications to bury fiber optic cable on the easement was approved by the Finance Committee. We are taking bids for the Dip #5 project at Wildwood Trail. It is our intentions to proceed with the prof ect. Park Managers Report The mowers arrived last Friday. The used ones went back. The new truck has been invoiced and serial number recorded. Grant is having a difficult time getting summer help. Help must be 18 years old and would start at$7.00 per hour. The New Richmond Boot Camp residents will be available in three weeks. They will paint the picnic tables first and proceed to other projects. Watershed inspection will be April 27th. Leon Berenschot contacted Grant concerning Glen Hills Golf Course. The cost of the lease may go up. Parks has not received a plan concerning the Golf Course expansion. This item will be added to next month's agenda. ZONING BUSINESS Municipal Plats Zoning Director Steve Fisher requested approval of a municipal plat for the City of Hudson. Motion by Supervisor Jensen, seconded by Supervisor Larson to approve with no objection, the plat of St.Croix Business Park First Addition. Motion carried. The formal portion of the meeting adjourned to do the rezoning tours at 11:30 a.m. Motion by Jensen, seconded by Supervisor Larson to adjourn the meeting at 2:20 p.m. (::ectfully submitted: ylKahl6r,Recording Secretary Gerald Larson, Secretary 4