Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

He is from just gets too much really. He warm me down this year. So our neighbors are like that. I mean he's cold. He just he is like that. He's cold. Can't you warm him up a little? I mean, maybe. All right, we'll call this meeting to order. We'll start with roll call. Miss Lazarus here. Mr. Grady here. Miss Hein Street here. Miss Silva here. Dr. Mason here. And

um what we'll do is we'll start with um Ken France at 331 Pinnacle. Good evening again. My name is Ken France. My wife Julie and I live at 331 Pinnacle Drive. I'm here to talk about my relationship with golf and with the Lake Mills Golf Course. Nine years ago, I became a true golfer. for the passing large number of large number of residents who spoke in favor of keeping the golf course a part of the future land use map but by the responses and comments b uh made by all of you the members of the planning commission I really felt heard by you I believe that you truly have our community's best interests in mind and I thank you for that as I have mentioned in previous talks box. The Lake Mills Golf Course Association is fully committed to help find a buyer who we can help to make the golf course thrive and reach its full potential. I invite all residents interested in preserving the golf course to show join us at the public hearing to be held right here on Thursday, March 19th at 6:00 p.m. at the Lake Mills County City Council Chambers. I also urge you to join us at lakenelsgolfcourseassociation.org. I especially encourage you to join us on Facebook and learn more about what is possible for our community treasure, the Lake Nails Golf Course. Let us not regret 20 years from now a decision we make on March 19th. Also, uh, if you could maybe this evening, please share what the format

will be, uh, for the March 19th public hearing. Thank you for all that you do. All right. Thank you, Ken. Um, next is Julie Nelson at 105 Pinnacle.

Hi, my name Hi, my name is Julie Nelson, 105 Pinnacle Drive. If you recall following the last meeting, Drake asked you to consider if not a golf course, then what? I think the more important question is why not a golf course? According to Golf Digest, Wisconsin's golf industry has experienced significant growth since 2020. In 2025, they ranked Wisconsin number one in the nation for public access golf, making Wisconsin America's top golf cations destination. They went on to say that successful golf courses appeal to a broader spectrum of people, not just the traditional golfer. Successful golf clubs offer excellent inclusive dining options. They have a full social calendar. They run family events, new member events, and open days to bring the community. The current owners blame the community for not supporting them. I asked a Lake Null's resident why he chose a membership at Lake Lake Ripley Golf Course in Cambridge versus ours. He stated, "Lake Ripley offers a driving range, and they are always making course improvements. They have a pro shop and clubhouse with patio that is always open before and after their rounds. The restaurant is open year round and offers breakfast, lunch, and Friday fish fries. They promote an atmosphere that welcomes golfers and non-golfers. At any given time, there are people milling about, playing cards, hosting meetings." He went on to say, "It's more than a golf course. It's a social club and community gathering place. This is what earns community support. The current owners say they've received no credible offers to operate and buy the golf course. We looked at comparable courses across Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota, and they are listed at 1.9 million. They all boast profitable turnkey operations with year-round restaurants and event venues. Our our owners told us all at the last meeting

that they've shut the restaurant down years ago, but they haven't turned a profit in years, that the irrigation system needs replacing, and that the pump house caught fire at the end of the last season. Yet, they have it listed for three Jeff Allen 146 Pinnacle. I'm going to be very brief. Um, it's always nice to have options. This city has a luxury of having options for its future growth. There's developmental land that just opened up south of town by the existing Blood Lake Road development. Uh there's land in the same area that it said will is potentially going to open up soon that the school district owns just across the street from that. And there's an area on the north side of I94 that isn't for sale, but it is in the uh long range comprehensive plan that future development might extend that far. And the comprehensive growth plan was carefully thought out by everyone. Developers want to build here because people want to live here because it feels different here. Our wonderful, legendary city has the luxury of options for growth. Destroying recreational green space near the heart of the city should not be one of those options. Please help us save the golf course.

All right. Thank you, Jeff. All right, we'll go close public comment. We'll move to number five um on the agenda, which is a public hearing regarding the zoning amendment from Harvey Properties for the purpose of changing the zoning of parcels of land located at 204 East Lake Street and 105 South Madison Street um from downtown uh business district or B1 to downtown business district with plan development um district overlay. Um we're going to start um by first hearing from the HAVDI representatives. So um if you all could come to the podium and um share your presentation. We will then hear from the public. The signs keep walking. Thank you, commissioners. Thanks. Thanks, Drake, for it and all your support on this. Uh, my name is Ethan Schwanker. I'm the chief operating officer with the applicant properties. Um, my role here tonight is just to kind of briefly reintroduce for those of you who who are less familiar or weren't concept uh a couple months ago. and then just uh our approach to the project and I'm

going to turn it over to our architectural team at Mandis Young to go over the presentation of application materials. Um Huggy Properties uh is a third generation family-owned company based out of Madison, Wisconsin. We are based out of Madison, but we've worked in downtowns uh in Wankeine, worked in Jainsville, worked in a number of communities. Um, we being family-owned, we also, uh, own and manage all of our own properties. Um, so we don't use third party management. And because we're a family officer, the whole point is to own it long term. So the idea is investing and being part of the community um, over the the long long term. And uh what that sort of affords us an ability to do a project and invest in a little bit more because we're really not looking to sell it the way a fe developer might be looking to. So we tend to invest a little more heavily on the on the on the front end um because if we're going to be there for a long term, we want to to fit. Um our approach on this uh project just generally is that it's there's so much that seems to come together for this one. It's an underutilized site. Um, it's in the middle of a downtown with a beautiful historic uh district. Um, but the site itself is, you know, otherwise blighted and underutilized. So, it's an opportunity to build something with character, build something that reflects the initial character without imitating it. Um, but also addresses a critical need, which is housing. Um, and this provides uh not only housing for current residents who might be looking to downsize, but other people who are looking to move to the community but don't want to shut the snow or for a variety of reasons want to get started. Um, it also uh complements the businesses downtown by bringing out foot traffic. So, it's it's a way of both

addressings of the past and looking uh towards the future what makes sense here. And so we're really excited about that opportunity and the feedback we heard uh during the concept meeting and uh throughout the public process and uh we we've done uh what we think uh you know is feasible to try to address those comments and to um develop a project that we feel like really complements what the city what the city has to offer. So with that I'm going to turn it over to our architectural team at NBC. Okay. All right, can everyone hear me? Okay. Okay, great. So, I'm gonna start with just a real high level over. I don't know who here was here last time or not. So, we'll do a quick high level overview and then I want to address some of the staff comments um just to make sure that we're we're kind of covering where we're at. So, um this project site uh to the north of us, the image that you're seeing here is the the north facade, so facing the park. Um it is a 100 residential units. Um and then there's also a commercial space on sort of the main corner where the walk from city hall uh to the park is. So mixture of threebedroom, two-bedroom, oneb and studio units. Uh and we'll talk about the studio units here in a second. Those uh square footages range from in the 500s to um you know around 1,000 square ft. um four-story building. Um one of the main components that we try to do with the architecture is really so in in a downtown and especially a an older historic downtown like Lake Miller where you've seen a lot of older communities um rhythm of the facade is an incredibly important thing to do. So there's a balance and I talked about this last time about not recreating the old but recognizing what the old brought and

creating some of those elements in more of a contemporary or modern fashion. So what you see on the facade is going to be a lot of um repeated rhythms and punched openings and brick facades. some kind of traditional brick detailing um mixed with awnings and storefronts and things like that that you typically see in the downtown, but not necessarily trying to automatically recreate what was there because that's something that's really really difficult to even if you look at a historic preservation standpoint, they they don't want you to do that too. So, it's again trying to respect the old, create something new. Um and in the sense of housing, which is not downtown today. So obviously we have we have storefronts and businesses and in several points on the second level. Um so kind of go maybe a couple more but everyone's I think familiar with the site. We got Madison Water and Lake Street. Lake Street has to be the north facade. That's our our our main facade that that fronts the the park and the shopping district downtown. Um existing Sentry site. So again, like Ethan mentioned, it's it's a blinded site. So we're trying to bring some life back into that site with this development. Let's go a couple more. So in the site plan, one of the main things, so our access to that site is from the south side of the site. So we have two points of entry. We have underground parking underneath the building. So there's um sufficient parking for the development underneath and supplement parking on the first level essentially behind the building. So our goal was to front um the street, you know, at the park and really create a continuous facade along that street and then again along the side and sort of hide the parking utility of that building on the back side of the building. Um so you'll see on the left side of this plan we have

our multi- family lobby we call it that's our entry it's our fitness center um it's the leasing office the pieces that make the building function to the west we have our commercial tenant space which will will be leased out to um in the future when that comes together and then as you move down to the right of the building we have uh the facade sort of changes to a a town home style feel where we've got um walk up units so people can access from sidewalk to their unit and then as it as it turns around the corner you have have the same. So really sort of starting to break down the scale of the building as it as it moves to the east. So um this image is looking to the southeast um looking at the north facade. So this is our commercial tenant space. So the corner has again a commercial tenants space. It'll be leased out. Up above we have three stories apartment of apartments. Um actually let's leave this image. I'd like to just touch base on one of the adjustments we made. So if you for those of you here last time we were dealing with some issues of having enough room at the front facade in order to to enter. And so we actually figured out a way to shorten the building slightly so we could create some more uh room if you will in the front. We still have the elevated uh commercial space. That's because we're in the water table. So, we do have to have the building up.

Um, but it allowed us to bring that facade out to the front room. So, you'll see the differences in in the uh

the packet they have showed some sidebyside renderings, but we did bring those storefronts out. We added awnings. Um, we did adjust some some brick work and go to some lighter brick. We're trying to do a better job in this to show some of the brick detailing that will be there. I know. There was some comments last time about not being able to visually see some of that the soldier core scene and the brick detailing that was there. So, we work through some different window rhythms and um and that brick detailing to try to make it uh easier to visualize in the in the imagery. Um so yeah, some additional architectural detailing and uh lighting elements, different trim. Uh we did alter some facade material. So you notice that the brick has gone lighter. There was a red brick before. Uh we added some building accent lighting. So you can kind of see that on the between the second and third floor. We have up down lights that wash the brick on the front of the building. um along with some uh pedestrian sort of scale lights at those storefront entries and then larger windows at the at the commercial space. And then we can kind of flip through these. This is kind of just walking around the building. Um so this is looking the other direction up along Lake Street.

So you can see the walk up uh apartment units kind of as you turn the corner. And I I mentioned this last time, but one of the goals with this was to because it's um ingrained in the downtown and a lot of buildings are two to three stories that take this fourth story and we set it back and architecturally we change that material. So it's it's kind of becomes a backdrop and not an accent on a building. So spend a lot of our time and energy and architectural detail on those first three stories and really make your eye kind of ignore the the fourth story as it's set back. So again this looking down Lake Street um you can see the apartment entry here. You're kind of seeing the um the walk up units and as you go to the next image you can see each of those where those balconies stack underneath those front door those first floor units. Yeah, just continuing around, we have a little bit of grade drop as we go. So, you see there's some stairs up to that corner unit. Um, then as you work around the back side of the building, you have uh the parking lot additional uh sort of public and uh unit entry. And then as you enter down in the parking garage, you have our resident entry and parking along with the the um trap that trash and recycling room in the bottom. Um and then to address three comments in the staff report just to show. Um so if we go back to the site plan, but there's a comment in there about curb and gutter. Um there's a curve portion of the site. We did add that curb that's no problem. Um we did lower the parking lot uh light poles to the height of 156 which was a ask for in the staff as well. That's also no issues whatsoever. And then um on the unit sizes which I mentioned um so

the uh Start talks about an 800 square foot minimum for apartment units. Uh it is really very standard in market rate apartments to see studios in 450 to 550T range. So the units that we're providing are in the 500 to 600T range. Very much in market norms all over. Um we we do run into that in a lot of municipalities that um you know apartments have changed and and units become more affordable as they get smaller. So that that size and that scale works really really well and it's super common um in a market rate type situation. So um so we with that we do have to request an exception to that 800 square foot threshold in our application. So I I you know like to have discussion on that tonight. We're here to answer any questions that um and certainly Hubby can speak uh to the marketability of those that I think that's kind of everything I had. Um Brandon, who's our project director, is also here tonight to answer any questions if there's anything that comes up. So yeah, we're happy to answer any questions that anyone might have. So appreciate it.

Great. Thank you. So, what we'll do is we'll hear from the public on the matter and then we might come back to you all um in the next part of the agenda. Sound good? Um so, now we'll hear from the public. Um if you're interested about talking about this particular issue regarding the zoning amendment proposal um please come to the podium, state your name and your address. Same rules, three minutes. Hi there. Thank you.

Thank you for taking my comments. I'm Jacob Barnes, 527 Ober Street, and I'm very happy to see that we're having uh some zoning change because I have a property right across the street there rental property. I've been looking at uh looking at the back of that store for quite a while. So, uh thank you very much for uh um taking my comment and looking at I'm an architectural stone cutter. Um, I'm making parts for old buildings for historic buildings. Have uh for 40 years, work here and and in France and in the UK. So, I know a little bit about um architectural uh texture and the rest of it.

And I'm sorry, I think this looks more like a warehouse and I think we need some more uh more masonry in here and some textures for you guys. Um because we've got an architectural stock here in Lake Mills that is uh that is uh um very very incredibly uh upscale compared to other communities and the rest of it. So um you know a little bit more texture, a little bit less it looks like Margent Street. That was my first impression and I'm sorry if that's if that's um you know um um a little bit strong but Mer Hospital on Region Street doesn't belong in our uh in our beautiful downtown especially with our beautiful library and our architectural stock of town here. So it's uh it's uh going to I think be uh demerit to the city if we don't change uh some of the things on the elevation. And another thing is I have a problem with the density. Um what is it? 16 studio 16 studio units with about 350 square or uh um 550 square ft. And then there's um 36 onebedroom with about 700 square ft and you know another 36 twobedroom with another with uh 1,000 square ft. And then there's and then there's the rest is a threebedroom. I forget how many that doesn't doesn't uh leave us too many with three bedroomedroom. And also I'm wondering if we can if we can you know the density of

100 units here that's going to be about 140 cars. And you know we might be getting a little ahead of our headlights here with our with our infrastructure. I mean, we don't even have the water pressure to accommodate the the the apartment buildings over on the south of town here. So, I'm wondering if we're getting a little bit ahead of ourselves on the infrastructure, but be that as it may, that could be taken care of with uh with the physical plant people, but as far as the density, increasing the density, we're right around 3 minutes. So, if you could wrap up here,

I'll wrap it up. Sorry. increasing the density with the, you know, with the 100 units, maybe we could increase increase the size of those units, make it more, you know, immutable to um the traffic situation downtown and the rest of it. So, that's my three minutes. I mean, I I own property next door and I paid property taxes on five houses in town. So, I I have a stage in it. I'd like to see things, you know, work through in a more measures way. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate you.

Can you hear me? Can we hear the light on right now? Yeah, it's on. Okay. Am I just really short? Can you hear me now?

I can hear her. Um Raina Severson, executive director of Legendary Lake Mills Chamber Main Street Organization and I am here to speak for the organization in support of the Hub property proposal. We at Legendary Lake Mills are thrilled with the plans for the propos proposal of the Huby development as we understand the positive economic impact this will have on our downtown district. Um, this development will increase walkable customers who are twice as likely to spend downtown than those who need to drive. And based on Wisconsin economic development data, the average spending is about 12,000 per additional residential unit. Um, we believe that implementing housing at this location will lead to a more b vibrant downtown and we understand that a strong downtown is a strong community. Hopefully you were able to read our January edition of the Love Lake Mills newsletter. Within this mailing, we included testimonials in support of downtown housing and this proposal from a variety of business owners located within our downtown district. Um, in summary, they all shared a similar sentiment um that this development will positively impact um the economy, potentially add workforce, and greatly increase their customer base. Um, this development would be a huge success for Lake Mills in moving a longtime vacancy into vibrancy and we see that all while positively impacting our downtown businesses. Um, we're very supportive of this and um, thank you for taking your time for that tonight and um, we're going to continue to support it. Thank you.

Okay. Thank you. Is there anyone else in the audience that would like to speak on this matter today? Yeah, please come to the podium and state your name and address.

Hello, my name is James 310 Street just down the block from

I have a few questions. What's going on or if it's happened? First off, has there been an impact study for what's going to happen to our neighborhoods when this comes in considering traffic, parking, and schools? Okay, we're all going to increase with 100 units, probably at least 150 people. Also, the electric and water usage I'm concerned about. Okay. Will the city be able to meet the needs for the, you know, the the building. And if we do need more equipment, are we going to the city going to have to pay for it or, you know, will our fire department's ladders reach a fourstory building? You know, I don't know if these questions have been asked. We want to build a building out cost us a half million to buy to take care of. Um, okay. Concerning the apartments, 100 apartments are are quite a bit. Okay. Rent units already in our city are about 30%. And they said a healthy city has about 20%. Rent units. You have 80% home ownership. With home ownership, you have people investing in their community, not just coming here and living and using our utilities. Okay. What else do I have here? Okay. With 100 apartments also, we're not going to have enough parking. You're saying we're going to get 26 additional units onto the street parking. Well, that's 26 units that are probably going to be used. Cars left there when people are working or just, you know, taking up space that normally would be a vacant that we're giving to another building.

Also on the green space, they commented that they don't have enough, but there's a park across the street they can use. Well, the park isn't just for that building. It's for all the residents. So, well, they're going to be benefiting from that also, which is great, you know, but half the units would be a little Okay, next I have um Oh, the traffic for the area since century was left the grocery store and other grocery stores. Traffic down Malberry has been okay. They posted no trucks which house no trucks are allowed on it. Speed limit is rarely enforced, but you know, it's around 30 mph, which is fine. But I'm sure with everybody leaving for work, we're not just going to go down Main Street and get on the expressway. They're going to be cutting through Malberry. We're going to be using all the side streets. And my guess would be speed limits aren't going to be enforced. So, are we going to need more police to enforce speed limits? You know, we have to look at the land too. Or can you put speed bumps? Can you uh change the speed to 15 miles and say five over cost 50 or something changes? A lot of them are good. You know, it's a really wonderful thing to say. I think I think with this people, it's such a small area. It'd be like putting on my little place in Iowa, if I had a quarter acre, it'd be like putting 12 houses on my little block.

Thank you.

Thank you. Um, anyone else like to talk? Anyone else to talk on this matter? Okay. Um, well, I will close the public hearing comments then. Uh, at 7:34, we'll um proceed to the city council for three readings of the ordinance change. Um not a lot not a lot has changed since the concept review when staff gave a little overview of the of the project. Staff does recommend approval of the of the um application. Um if you'd like more detail on anything, Dustin here is available to provide um any uh feedback on the his analysis of the of the proposal. Um other than that, we're available for questions uh and the plan commission can have their deliberations. Okay. Any questions, comments to our applicants, to our city staff. I really appreciate um the changes you guys made in the drawings. I think it looks really nice. Um I like the lighter colored brick. Um, and I think you just you did a great job. I think it looks great. Excited about this project.

There were some comments about the impact study traffic utility school. When does that come into play?

The lake on and then companies such as Hamlin, which were high water users, water users that are no longer in in business. And so our our water capacity is far far exceeds our usage of it at this time with the three wells that we have. Um and then our water uh supply, the amount of water we have is also more than adequate to add significantly more development in the city of Lake Mills. Um the wastewater treatment plant will be able to accommodate it um currently and is also in the midst of a um capital improvement plan that's required to plan for the 20-year growth projection of um from the DOA uh for the city of Lake Mills, which is a population equivalent of over 12,000. Um so there's quite a bit of capacity that is required to be built into that plant by DNR standards. um and that we are in the the uh design phases of um the megawattage available. The electric supply um is also more than adequate for residential development. Um when we have, you know, when we when people comment on things such as power outages or things like that, that's not an electrical supply issue when that happens. It's typically what's most common is animals that have gotten into the substation and have blown a transformer or messed with or made a connection error or or something like that. Um it's not a electrical supply issue that would cause any power outages that we may have experienced in the past. Um the uh the parking that's been submitted is consistent with um many other communities um rural suburban communities as well that's listed in the memo. Um the city of Lake Mills code is does have a very very high parking requirement for multifamily. Um that is

uh not conducive to a downtown development such as this. Um we are um I believe the highest parking requirement in Jefferson County if not uh we're in we're certainly in the top and when compared to other communities as well our parking requirement is um is dated and that's those are comments that this plan commission has received from other developers as well. Um, so and I'm under the impression that the fire department has equipment that could be well within range and our and our police just had some grants too that um expanded the force.

Yep. We've recently added two police officers to the sworn um staff of the police department and the fire department did um was um we did ask for their opinion on the height of the building and they didn't they stated that they would be able to to serve the development.

Yeah, I just like to add a add a couple of things um related to that. On the parking side, just remember in the historic downtown, there is no parking requirements for any development in downtown. uh that includes the existing commercial downtown setting. You are intended to have shared parking. City certainly has a number of lots that are available. Uh and then there is on street parking. I know there's some parking um limitations, winter rules, etc. Um but that holds for uh any of the downtown businesses, the downtown businesses that also have upper floor um residential uses and of course would apply uh to this uh site. So I just want to make sure there's some some context there. Um this site is adding downtown parking which is important on on street downtown parking by closing um the accesses they had on the north side that were the former Sentry site. Um uh there has been kind of a review of the city's lot to the west. Um there is available parking there. Um our biggest issue with parking is typically overnight uh with residential um because obviously most of the commercial entities are are closed at that point. So, uh, they're historically seeing about 1.4, um, need for 1.4 stalls per per unit, and that's generally what they're providing. Um, there was also a comment on green space. Again, in the down historic downtown, there are no green space requirements in the downtown. Historically, sites have built lot line to lot line. As you know, they're kind of you walk down the street, it's building after building after building, go out to the back, and then it's kind of pavement or alleyways, right? So again here there is no minimum requirement unlike when we have a traditional suburban multifamily um uh development in our R312 there they have um uh a a green space requirement to make sure they're not overbuilding on on sites. This is an urban site, a redevelopment site that is paved from lot line to lot line. So um again they

are providing some outdoor spaces and then they have indoor kind of recreational spaces for um for their tenants. Um I think those were the big comments that I had. Uh the density issue. We don't have a density number um prescribed in the downtown. We allow upper story um residential uses. Um it's a rarity when a community has a twoacre site in the center of their downtown available for redevelopment. Typically it's um your uh uh kind of historic buildings that have maybe two stories above uh can usually have about 3 4 5 six units within them. So this is a bit of an anomaly. It is certainly something that needs to be um approved as part of the plan development district, but there is no specific density number that we have in the code that would apply to any downtown um site. There are a series of bulk regulation exemptions that they are asking for. Those are noted in the memo. Um like to point out that there is a typo in the memo. Thank you for pointing it out. Um the maximum height in the downtown district is 35 feet. got that confused with some of our non-residential areas which allow 45 ft and they are asking for 49 ft and again as as Drake um mentioned the fire department has reviewed this um this is not uncommon um the uh ladder truck they have can reach um but they have staging areas and the building is sprinklered so

okay thank you and regarding the aesthetics um uh there was a concept review uh several couple months ago. I don't believe anyone spoke on it if I'm not mistaken. Maybe one. It was like 14 people that spoke on the golf course and zero on this. I made some recommendations. Um and they you all totally heard them and I thought you upgraded this um significantly and um so I really appreciate you for that.

I just have to add one. I just have to add one thing. I think we addressed uh there was one comment from the public that that said about water pressure fluctuation and I think um city staff addressed this just so the plan commission knows um at a meeting a few years ago already um since the uh the obsolete water tower the 360,000galon water tower on Tower Street became obsolete and tore down. The city now relies more on pressure pumps from the well sites and I'm I'm quite sure that it meets and exceeds um all expectations including fire protection but I it had been addressed previously to uh plan commission so there should be no problem with that. All right planning commissioners any more input? Go ahead. Go ahead. Um, I got to say I'm I'm kind of excited about this. Uh, it's been far too long that Sentry's been sitting there empty. And, um, I think there's a good plan. Uh, it's well thought out, well designed, and the sooner we can get going in at the Okay. I mean, if there's no more comment, I'm willing to hear a motion on 26-2-1. I move passage of motion 26 2 1

second. It's been moved um to approve the amendment as written. Is that right, Mr. Lazarus? Yes. Um it's been moved to approve the amendment as written by Miss Lazarus and seconded by Mr. Mason. Um is there any um further comment, any other thoughts about this motion? No. Um, I ask for a roll call vote then. Mr. Grady, I. Miss Heim Street, I. Miss Silva, I. Dr. Mason, I. Mr. Homeman, I. Miss Lazarus, I. Motion passes 6.

All right. Thank you. Thanks for everyone for your comments. Um, next is recommendation for future agenda items. We have two meetings next month.

Is that correct? We will at least have the special meeting on March 19th. Um I'll we're still reviewing any applications for the regular meeting of March to determine um what that will look like, but we did schedule the March 19th 6:00 meeting uh for the public hearing on the future land use amendment request on the lands currently being operated as the Lake Mills Golf Course. um it will be the only item on the agenda to ensure that there's adequate time for public participation uh during that public hearing. Uh a member of the public had requested what the um structure of that looks like. It's very similar to what happened tonight. Um so there will still be the standard opening um the call to order uh public comment on items that there are not a public hearing on. There will be a uh then the public hearing will be opened by the chair. The applicant will be provided with an opportunity to present to the plan commission. Following that uh applica following that opportunity to present, the chair will invite the public up to speak. There will be three minutes provided to each um um um person. Uh the difference between the public hearing and the um public comment is that you do not have to register to speak prior to the public hearing. Um and so anyone who is present at the time that the public hearing is open uh will be provided an opportunity uh to speak um uh with so um that's typically how those um are run but um the special meeting was called to ensure that the there was adequate time for this uh due to we expect that there will be significant public comment. Um, so obviously the public is invited to attend, share their thoughts, and then after the public hearing is closed, the plan commission will have an opportunity to vote on the future land use map

amendment. Uh, and the um the future land use map amendment, as a reminder, requires approval by both the plan commission and the city council. So if if the plan commission were to not vote in favor of the um amendment, that would not proceed to city council. This is one of the rare circumstances in which it is not a recommendation from the plan commission but is potentially final action by the plan commission. Um for those who do want to participate in the public hearing, please attend in person. Um we're not able to offer uh virtual participation at this time. Um so um the meeting is set up to be recorded. um but we're not able to offer uh virtual participation. So, if you'd like to guarantee that you can observe and participate in the public hearing, uh please attend in person at 6:00 on March 19th.

Very thorough. Thank you. Finally, um I'll take a motion. Just to follow up on that, do we still have a regular scheduled meeting? Uh we'll let you know for sure. Um, we're reviewing any applications we have to ensure they're complete before we're I can let you know on that one. Great. Anything else? Okay. Take a motion for adjournment. So move. I'll second. All in favor say I. I. I. I. All oppose. No. All right. This meeting's adjourned.