Plan Commission - public_hearing

land division ordinance as follows. The proposed amendments will result in modifications to the ordinance text, which addresses various requirements of Wisconsin Act 68, including changes to subsection 14.0104 intent, subsection 14.0304 improvements, subsection 14.0401 pre-application, subsection 14.0403 preliminary plan approval, Subsection 14-0405, final plat approval. Subsection 14-0406, minor land division review and approval. And subsection 14-1002, building permits. The Village Board and Planning Commission may take action on the amendments to Chapter 14 land division ordinance immediately following the public hearing or the future meeting date. Start out with a roll call. Commissioner Zembrowski is out.

Commissioner Kennedy? Here. Commissioner Peterson?

Here.

Commissioner Wagner? Yep. Commissioner Hyden? Here. Myself. Planner Bennett? Here. Jamie? Here. Kelly? Here.

And I don't know if we're missing anybody else. Oh, Tracy and Cory are here. And Josh? Yep. That's Brian. Brian. Brian's, Josh's, excuse me.

Ben, you want to speak? Yeah, real quick. You have a quick summary memo in your packet regarding Act 68. This law was passed last December. It becomes an effective law July 1, whether we like it or not. So this wasn't optional. This is a requirement to get our ordinance compliant with state statute. What it does, just sort of I gave you a few bullet points of What it does, it requires that you provide optional concept review meetings, and again, taking a step back, this is with respect to subdivision plat review, and that's what this law changes, is the subdivision plat review process. Community has to provide optional concept review meetings, Current bill of ordinance already requires that, so we're Act 68 compliant with respect to one without any changes. Number two, we have to require or allow that only preliminary information be provided, preliminary engineering, that type of information at preliminary phase. It can be subject to final approvals, but we can't require final plan submittal at permanent or flat stage. Three, that public improvements can no longer be required as a requirement of flat approval. And so you can't say we won't approve the plat unless you install the road. What you can say is we can require developers agreement, require reasonable deadlines beyond approval to complete these tasks through a developers agreement. But you can no longer hold up your plat approval to require improvements. It caps financial guarantees, but the ordinance is consistent with those limits. Number five would require change, and so you can, upon substantial completion of improvements of a subdivision, a local unit of government can no longer hold up building permits. And so that's just something to take note of that we can no longer hold up a building permit. It doesn't say occupancy permit though. So there's nothing I believe that says a community can't hold up an occupancy permit because of the completion of all improvements have not occurred in the subdivision. And then the last one just requires that once the community is certified that all requirements of their approval have been met, that the community needs to basically certify to sign that plat within 10 days so that the community cannot sit on that plat after approval so that it can be properly recorded by the developer. This has not been provided in final format and so That is something that should have an attorney review and just revision in the final adoptable format. But that really is the guts of Act 68. It's a pretty straightforward change being required by the state. Thanks, Ben.

Are there any public comments?

So in addition to what Ben just went through, we also made some administrative co-changes. As you all know, Department of Commerce is now Department of Safety and Public Services. I mean, goofy little cleanup, things like that. A couple questions that I had is we still reference the state plan coordinate system cell zone. A lot of the surveyors are now using county coordinate system. I don't know if that's an acceptable alternative, so I highlighted it on one of the early versions that I sent to Katie. Similarly, the vertical data associated with FEMA. FEMA's gone to, I believe it's N88, is that correct, Ben? It used to be NAVD. 27. 27 or 29. I always get them confused even though I'm a surveyor because the horizontal is 27 and the vertical is 29 or some silly thing like that. But there were a couple tweaks made. We also incorporated the public works in the police department in the plat submittal procedures because we think they ought to be aware of what's going on. Sure. Makes sense.

If there are no public comments, I will entertain a motion to adjourn from the Planning Commission. I'll make that motion. Second. I've got a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

I'll make a motion to come out of our public hearing. Second. Any other discussion? All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries.

Thank you. Next motion is public hearing. It'll take consideration and approval of minutes from A, Thursday, May 21st, 2026, public hearing for ideal car holdings. B, Thursday, May 21st, 2026, public hearing for the circular land division. And C, May 21st, 2026, planning commission meeting. I'll make a motion to dispense with the reading of all three minutes. I'll second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Opposed? Motion carries.

I KNOW THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO SCALE DOWN TO CLEARLY GET UNDER THE TINKER.

NO, I TALKED TO BRIAN DEPIUS. THEY'RE ANTICIPATING AN UPDATED PLAN. I JUST WASN'T SURE IF THERE WAS A NUMBER TO ADD. NO, THEY NEVER GAVE US A NUMBER. THEY TOLD US THEY KEEP IT UNDER AN ANCHOR BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GET A DNR PERMIT.

SO IT READS? Kind of consistent. I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as yet. I just have one question about it. It says Nathan is here. It says the attorney was here for the public hearings. I was not in attendance, so I can't speak to that. I just have the video of you in here. Yeah, I'll make a motion to approve the minutes as written with the exception of returning Ethan and Barrett on being here.

I'll second that. That's for all three sets of minutes. All three sets of minutes. Technically two. Just the two public hearings. Okay. Public hearings, yeah. Motion to second. Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Aye. Opposed?

Motion carries. I understand.

I'm just waiting for a motion to approve the next set of minutes. Someone said it was only the two public hearings. Well, they're correct. I'm glad you said something.

They say if you pause for a long time, people get your attention.

Just taking a nap.

All right, item three, new business discussion action items. Review discussion of possible recommendations of amendments to chapter 14, land division ordinance to incorporate provisions of 2025 Wisconsin Act 68 and related revisions to subdivision and certified survey map review procedures.

Just again, there's a suggested motion in your packet. I believe Attorney Bayer does, or I'm not sure if this is a showroom review, but the village attorney does have this. We have not received a comment from the attorney. I'm not aware of any, so we're just recommending any approval. Recommendation to the board be subject to attorney review and revision in the final form.

It was a year. Right.

So your sections, Will, that you had mentioned and noted earlier in the public hearing, are you waiting on clarity on those? Or is that you were just providing feedback that those were also additional?

There were some changes. You do have the opportunity to include those changes, for example, the horizontal and vertical data. Or you could just leave it as is. I know, Ben, correct me if I'm wrong, but Quantico still says state plane coordinates. does not dictate datum, you could leave that up to a staff decision as well if you were so inclined. And some things are just the state changed the agency, so I think they're just necessary technical. Yeah, a lot of them are nothing. The only real decisions are whether you want to codify the datum changes.

And I'm guessing that the land division with the vertical was probably like one of the floodplain ordinances, something that probably could have gotten done when the zoning new maps got updated.

Yeah, in 2014, I think. It was probably just an item.

They modified the vertical data. So it's probably just something, just maintenance, necessary maintenance.

It's not even necessary as long as we have, we understand that So if someone were to come in, for example, on the county coordinate system with the older datum, we just have to look at it more carefully. There's not a significant difference in the vertical datum. I think it's maybe two tenths in a worst case scenario.

That's how you just kind of convert it in your review.

Right. And if you're dealing with a floodplain, it becomes an issue. If you're not, it's probably not an issue. Similar with the horizontal. Just a matter of... what you want to use for your reference bearing when it's all said and done.

So ultimately, we're looking at making a potential motion to the board for approval, contingent on a review by the lawyer. Okay. Lawyer, and then just formatting. Right, you can format it into ordinance. I mean, it's something we have to do.

It's something that at six weeks. Well, it's law July 1st. Whether you change it or not, it's still law. You're just doing the requirement to keep your ordinance. certified with law, but it's still the law. We'd have to review the subdivision for Act 68. Your current ordinance would not be enforceable with those provisions that are not compliant with Act 68, right? So we're just making ourselves compliant. Getting compliant on time, two weeks early.

When's the board meet? When's the board meet next? Technically July 2nd, 2nd. There you go. All right, I'll make that motion. And I'll second it.

Any further discussion? All in favor? Aye. Motion. Motion carries. Item 4, old business, nothing. Item 5, planners report abandoned. NOTHING TO REPORT.

I DON'T THINK WE HAVE ANY APPLICATIONS ON THE IMMEDIATE HORIZON THAT I'M AWARE OF THAT WOULD BE ON OUR JULY AGENDA. STAY TUNED.

EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. BILL'S NOT HERE. NO FIRE INSPECTOR REPORT.

BASICALLY, FIRE INSPECTIONS ARE JUST ABOUT DONE FOR THE HALF OF THE YEAR. BUT WE'RE JUST FINISHING OUT. and then we're getting ready for the Stampede, which is on July, June 27th. Well, the gates open at five and then it starts at seven. So the other thing that everyone should just kind of keep in the back of your mind that on July 17th, Highway 164 will be shut down. From that weekend on the 17th, all weekend, so no northbound or southbound traffic on 164 under I-43. as they'll be replacing some culverts in that area. Prepping for Diamond, baby.

Diamond days.

Do you know if the Village is going to put a post on the website and social media? Once we get the final word. There's a meeting next week with DOT, so everything right now is still federal. Okay. But until we get the final word from DOT and what's going to fully occur, we'll go from there. Thank you.

You all should have a copy of my engineering essay. You can read it as well as I can, so I'm not going to waste your time unless you want me to expand on anything that's in there. We had an interesting meeting with the DOT today. Interesting is the word I would use. I have three pages of notes that I didn't want to shoot off to everybody just to make sure that I caught it all. And there's one up there.

Is that a perfect track record? The topic was related, Breck. The traffic analysis and safety concerns and likelihood of where a set of control flights would be and such. So no decisions were made. It was just kind of an open forum, getting everybody on the right page, talking through it.

REC's people have a lot of work to do between now and recent. I can tell you the same complex stormwater's been submitted to the DOT. The notice of intent's been submitted to the DNR and their wetland disturbance permit has also been submitted to the DNR this week. So they're moving forward with their regulatory permitting at this time.

Excellent. Anything else? I don't want to bring up that date. I will be out of town the 16th. Not allowed.

What's that? Not allowed. Not allowed. Going to see mom. That has to be allowed. So I have nothing, though, so I don't know that we have a meeting yet. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S WORTH DISCUSSING AN ALTERNATIVE DATE OR WHAT, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE YOU AWARE, UNLESS I CAN CONNECT WITH MY LEADER, I WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO DO THAT. I'LL BE PLACED RIGHT HERE, AND I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO TAKE THEM OFF OF. DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? DOES THAT SOUND GOOD?

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Thank you. Almost there. Almost. That was three meetings in 21 minutes. Wait, I have to get back. The finance started before that. Two meetings in 21 minutes. Finance, you have four minutes.