Plan Commission - Regular Meeting

come to order and we will first call the role. Mr. Holman here. Miss Lazeris here. Mr. Grady here. Mr. Waters here. Miss Heim Street here. Miss Silva here. And Dr. Mason previously informed staff that he would be unavailable for this evening's meeting. All right. All right. Next on the agenda is the correction and approval of minutes from our last meeting on May. I'm sorry that was from last June. Last July. July. July.

July. Um are there any objections to the minutes as written and shared? Any objections? Objections? Seeing none, um the minutes I'll declare that the minutes from um our July meeting are approved. Um number four. Um, next on the agenda, um, question and public comment. So, individuals, uh, who have registered to speak are invited to address the planning commission at this time. Please state your name and address uh, when you're called to make, uh, your comments. Uh, no action will be taken for items not listed on the agenda. So, each speaker is limited to three minutes. Um, please note that if your comment pertains to a public hearing later on in the agenda. So that would be for items five and seven for West Tyrannina Park Boulevard. Um the the location across from the um supermarket. Um items 9 and 10 for the bus barn on the CSM 2400. Um or the Lake Mill School District proposal um for expanding the high school. If your if your if your comment pertains to those, hold those to the public hearing um later on. And correct me if I'm wrong, city staff. So if if they want to if anyone wants to make a if anyone from outside the applicants want to make a public comment for the art could they do that now?

Yeah. Yes.

Great. So if you would like to make a public comment on the art which is number I think it's item it's like further down number 13 on the agenda. Now is the time to make that comment. Um otherwise this is just for general comments. So if you have any public comment please um come up to the mic now. Okay. And anyone on line? Okay. Seeing no public comment, we're going to move on to the next agenda, which is number five. a proposed amendment on changing the parcel 246 071311400000000 located um west Tyrannino Park Boulevard across from the grocery store and moving that from planned business to multifamily residential on the comprehensive plan future land use map. Um this is potentially a part of a two-part conversation where we'll be first entertaining um the first uh the future land use change along with um zoning changes in items seven and eight on the agenda. So let's start off with our city consultant Dustin Wolf giving a short presentation. Uh thank you. Try to put this up on the screen and hopefully we can see it pretty well. Um, as you mentioned, the the action items associated with this request are are twofold. The first piece is um a request to change the future land use map. Um, currently the future land use map uh for this property, which as you noted is a vacant piece of land that's currently just uh farmed uh to the south of the Lake Mills Market on Tyrannina uh adjacent to um the lands to the uh to the west are all in the town of Lake Mills. uh lands to the south and the east are the uh Lake Mill Cemetery uh in

the city of Lake Mills. Uh I'll show a quick graphic here. Um the proposal is to change the future land use map um designation for this property on the left. Uh you can see in the center highlighted property um in question uh is shown for uh a plan business, an office or generally commercial or or retailing type uses. um that aligns with the uh lands uh across the street um and extending over to the um intersection of of County V89 and generally the interstate. Um the the request as you can see to change it on the right uh shows it in orange. That's our uh color category for the um uh multif family residential uh designation. Um the petitioner uh has recently purchased the property from a longtime uh local land owner um uh Linda Keith. Um and it was at that property owner's um desire that it be made available for commercial land. Um it's a little hard to talk about future land use without thinking about the zoning, but um it has been shown for commercial uh land use for um uh more than two decades. uh with um in my time here um we've received no or fielded no inquiries on commercial development on that site from that property owner or or others. Um the current property owners just acquired it um have made the request to um change the designation to to multifamily to enable future multifamily development. Obviously, the commercial uh use designation doesn't enable a residential um activity within it. Um so process here is straightforward. It really does

just highlight the um um public hearing process uh and uh an action by the plan commission and the and the council. Um but digging in a little deeper as to kind of the why or we um why would we allow this or does the comprehensive plan enable this? Um it it looks at a few things. Um one of the initial issues is would we be um removing um the viability of commercial lands in this area of commercial development in this area. This graphic here is showing you other lands. Uh you can see A, B and C there. um that are all planned for future commercial or office development. Um that area uh is nearly 40 acres of land area for commercial development that all has uh utilities adjacent to it. Um to date we have not fielded any um serious inquiries uh on those lands either. Um though area A shown there um are the outlots uh adjacent to the bank and in front of the Lake Mills market and then B and C under um uh single land ownership. Um we have u been planning for those areas for commercial development because they're adjacency to the interstate for for a very long time. So one of the issues is would we be um removing the opportunity for commercial development out here? From staff's perspective, we would say no. still is plenty of um land planned for commercial development in in this area. Um some of the consistency elements is uh outlined in the comprehensive plan. Um goals and objectives are to disperse multifamily housing throughout the community. Uh this graphic is illustrating to you. Uh anything in orange is lands that are currently um uh zoned or developed for multifamily

development. And you can see uh that there are a handful uh to the east of 89. Um there only a couple to the west of 89. And there really is nothing in the immediate area up here. So if you're talking west of 89 kind of north of of um Water Street, there really is no multifamily. The argument can be made that you would be dispersing multifamily throughout the throughout the community. You wouldn't be concentrating it in any one area, which uh is something that the comprehensive plan talks about. Um it also talks about I'm going to skip down here. um ensuring that multifamily is in close proximity uh to um adequate transportation connections and community facilities, parks, recreation, commercial employment districts, right? Um so that they are convenient so they aren't going through the middle of single family neighborhoods uh increasing um potential impacts to single family neighborhoods. Uh commercial is obviously across the street um within walking distance immediately to the and immediately to the uh to the east of it. Obviously downtown is a little bit separate historic downtown but certainly plenty of um commercial out there. Um parks and recreation are in the area. Uh um Ty Park is around the corner. Um uh employment districts are to the east um up there. Um and then again adequate transportation connections. You are on a county highway, county V. you're adjacent to a state trunk highway 89 and you're adjacent to an interstate highway. It doesn't get much more approximate um within a quarter mile, you can um be on the state highway and you know and and uh and onto the interstate. Um so I would say it does kind of check the box if you will on on that requirement. Um the last issue is again trying to provide um a certain type of housing missing middle housing. So um you know medium density housing is

certainly something that's desired here and that could be something that uh develops under the um uh multif family districts, right? That means more than three units per per dwelling unit uh uh per building out there. Um, so, uh, it is an opportunity to potentially have a development that would me would meet some of our housing needs for a variety of housing types. Um, and we've talked about this at length in the comprehensing planning process, but also in some recent development proposals that come forward. Um, there isn't a specific development plan associated with this one. Um at this time they are asking obviously for the future land use amendment and then a corresponding reasonzoning associated with it. Uh I think as we talked last month about another development, uh everything is predicated on the future land use map amendment. If the commission is not supportive and ultimately the council is not supportive of changing the future land use to um from uh the planned business designation to the multifamily designation, the reasonzoning to a multif family district cannot occur. it it would not um align with the consistency requirement spelled out in the statutes. So this is the first step kind of more discussion on this. If you are supportive of this land use amendment then you can be supportive of of the reasonzoning but if you are not supportive of the of the land use amendment resoning really just doesn't go anywhere from there uh legally. Um staff is supportive of this future land use amendment for a few of the reasons that we highlighted. uh for two decades we have not seen any commercial development out there and we have ample commercial uh developable commercial lands out in this area. Um this is this is sat vacant for a long time and there

are utilities in front of it. Um also it's in a tax increment district. It would be nice to see uh development occur uh in an area that we've been planning for development for a long time. Um and then as I'd indicated the the details of the um comprehensive plan um do um um support future land use for multif family in this area because of um not being uh not being concentrated in any one area and of course proximity to um uh infrastructure. You have any questions? Um I can certainly answer them. Um

what we'll do is I think um we'll we'll have questions if we can hold them for later. We'll we'll go to straight to public comment. So um right now we will hear uh we'll have the public hearing. So please come to the podium, state your name and address um for the record on this particular um topic um which is the changing of uh the the um from plan business to multif family residential on the comprehensive plan for this particular um uh property. If anyone has anything that they would like to say, please come to the podium. Anyone online? Okay. Um so seeing no public um hearing comments um I'm going to close that particular discussion at 7:13. Um is the application here or applicant here to make a presentation? Sure. If you can come to the podium and state your name and your address, please. Good evening. My name is David Warerning. I'm with Greyar. Our address is 435 Village Walk Lane, Johnson Creek. Um we are here this evening asking the commission to consider the plan amendment change. Um I I think uh the the planner said it best and the points he made is the exact reasons we are asking for the change. Um, we are here this evening to try to answer any questions the commission may have if there are any questions in regards to it.

Great. Um, if you can just kind of stick around in the front row if that's all right, just in case we have any questions for you, that'd be great. If you could stick around in the front row just in case we have any questions for you. Sound good? So, what we're going to do now is move to number six on the agenda where our commission can enter into discussion so we can ask questions of the staff uh or our applicant, discuss any concerns, support for the amendment um or suggestions. Um so, planning commissioners, any thoughts, questions? I I have a question. Do you did you say that there is no development plan at this point or do we know like types of housing or

uh we don't have a site plan. Um that would be probably more germanine to the zoning change discussion. Um this would be our 312 allows for essentially greater than three units per acre. Um,

so it's it's the future land use map is more of a general discussion over what type of development you'd like to see on the parcel. Um, but we don't have we do not have a site plan attached to it. The future the future agenda item on the zoning change. Um, since it's a straight reszone to um R312, it has to fully comply with the um bulk requirements of the uh zoning code. Mhm. Um, so there could be no there'd be no allowance for a deviation. So they'd have to meet each requirement within that zoning code for the R312 district with whatever plan they came forward with. Okay. Yeah, Steve.

Um, I guess my question is um with with without some kind of preliminary plan and it's been planned business for this long, nothing's happened. Um, and how we would entertain the idea to make a zoning change without even a conceptual plan. And then what happens if um that we change the zoning and then the concept just doesn't fly at this level or city council then we got to zone something else and then do we just navigate this back and forth then until

Yeah. So the future land use map is is the plan commission amendable to multifamily development on this on this parcel. So something that would meet the entire all of the regulations within the zoning code. Um, when the request for zoning change comes up, you certainly, the plan commission and the city council certainly could ultimately decline to make a reszone without a site plan associated with it. Um, there certainly could be at that step of the process to not change it. Um, the difference between these and many of the other ones that the plan commission and the city council has grappled with in the past is that there's no request for a plan development district overlay. So there's no request for relaxations from the code. Um there's no there's there's not that designed negotiation give and take between developer and um the city as an entity. So um the question becomes is does the plan commission believe this is a spot for multifamily development and then the control that the city has is that with the straight reszone to R312 it must comply with the entirety of the R312 zoning code. So there's no there's no deviation or relaxation pathway under that without the plan development district overlay. Um so the council could certainly decline to issue a zoning change without an idea of what project is going in there. Um ultimately if a zoning change is made to R312 then it becomes permitted by right and if they comply then they can construct.

Okay. I and I completely understand that. I I guess I'm just saying I'm I'm not against it because there's nothing to be against. I I just I'm just kind of in limbo because we're making we're making a a change without um really seeing the direction, but I I don't know. It's confus It's just confusing to me somewhat.

Yeah. I think the on the future land use map amendment, the plan commission can have the policy discussion of of whether multifamily is the highest and best use of this parcel versus commercial. And so it's a discussion of will this lot ever develop as commercial. Our past history is is no. It's it's we have not had inquiries. We have not had applications. We have not had discussions. So something in the market is currently keeping this from being developed commercial. Um, so the question before the plan commission is, is this parcel better suited for a multi-family development? That's on the future land use map amendment. That's kind of what you're grappling with. You could you can right during the course of the comprehensive plan adoption and the future land use map adoption. There's there's several designations that are made without a specific plan in place as far as what exactly is going to go there. but you know what your code allows for multifamily and does that fit on this parcel. Um I think you can have a conversation later on with the zoning change about wanting to see um at least you know a concept plan of what would go in there before approving the zoning change. Um but I think on the future land use map amendment the conversation is a bit higher level than than that conversation. Well, thank you because that makes sense because I just couldn't put any logic to it in some directional logic. So, thank you.

Any other questions or comments? Yeah, Mr. Waters.

Um, I appreciate the memo put out by the city planner. Thank you. Pretty inclusive. Um, as I look at that land, it where it's currently zoned to go into multi-ousing, that that seems like a a good a good use of that land, a good place for that to happen. Um, I'm I'm pro more single family, but uh this doesn't seem like a real good place for that. So, um, so I I would support this moving forward. We evaluated single family there. Um, it's challenging because it would be an isol I'll call it an isolated neighborhood similar to what you have in the town to the to the west of it. It's really going to be kind of a culde-sac or maybe a small loop in and kind of immediately back out. It can't connect anywhere. You have this the to the east and to the south is the um is the cemetery. And so obviously we're not going to have any roads uh going through there. Um you are on the county highway. you are, you know, immediately across from uh from the uh commercial development. It's um uh there are a little more noise issues and and traffic issues associated with County V there. Um, if uh I in our opinion, if this site isn't good for multifamily, um, which has which would technically have less traffic than commercial, I'm not I'm not sure where we would start putting multif family on county highways and adjacent to interstates and adjacent to state highways. It it gets a little more challenging for us. So, I I don't think single family is going to be the most desirable spot. I think there are much more desirable spots within the community on the south south end of the community. Much more desirable uh obviously on the east end of the community desirable for for single family. So

great. Any questions? Uh and north of the interstate for applicant questions. Any questions? Are there questions?

I guess I I'm I'm an emphatic supporter of this. Um especially when there was so much conversation on Highway B. Um, I was looking at this unit thinking like this is like this is a wide open space that's just ready to be built on. Um, I do have some questions though. I guess one concern is if we if if this does go through and it manifests, um there's kind of I felt like an seems like there is a standoff between the city and the county on the main street ter um intersection as far as like the crosswalk there and if we get more um how I don't know how that works as far as like how we can get a crosswalk to go through there if we have more population. And it seems like um that would be an important

talk about the new RFI the new control I guess RF. Yeah, just because it's county road and like how how we can maneuver past that because it seems like this would become a safety concern. So I just need to clarify. Are you talking about the new RFB crosswalk that was recently installed as well? Is it just installed like just month ago? Uh yeah, a month. No, I've been in Montana. I didn't see it. But if so there's a crosswalk there. There is a crosswalk with similar to Main Street, a flashing beacon that when you press it going across Main Street. Yep. And we have a we have we will have an agreement with the county on the on the maintenance of that. Um so that was part Let me tell you something. Job well done.

That was part of the TAP grant project that we that we did um throughout the community.

Thanks so much. Hats off. All right. Any other questions, comments? No. Okay. Seeing uh no more input from the commission, would anyone like to make a motion regarding the proposed amendment amendment to parcel 246 07131114000000 from um plan business to multifamily residential and the comprehensive future land use map. I move passage of the prepared ordinance for the land use amendment on this parcel. I'll second.

All right. It's been moved by Miss Lazarus to approve the amendment as written and seconded by Miss Silva. Um I'll ask for a roll call vote. Miss Lazerys. Hi Mr. Grady. Hi Mr. Waters. Hi Miss Heim Street. Hi Miss Silva. I Mr. Hman I. Motion passes 60. Next on the uh agenda is number seven. Um the second part of the two public uh hearings for this matter. Um, and this is the zoning amendment request from David Warerning representing uh, Grammar Grammar

Grammar Grammar um, LLC to change the zoning on the same parcel of land um, that we've been previously discussing. So, located off of West Tino Park Boulevard. Um, so seeing that uh, Mr. Mr. Wolf already spoke on this, do you have anything else that you'd like to contribute?

Um, I I would just like to add a couple small things. um because a positive recommendation occurred for the future land use amendment, the reasonzoning has to now be consistent with uh ultimately that that future land use amendment. And so this memo kind of mimics that. I do want to reiterate what uh city manager said. Um, today we could have the hearing take input and if there are concerns of of commissioners about not having a specific development plan associated with it, you can um I don't see withhold action but table action on it. I'm looking at the city attorney on this to having more details associated with um with an action. Um there still are a few steps that have to occur at the council level for the future land use amendment uh itself. Um but this proposal is lock step with uh to reszone the lands to R312 is locked step with the future land use amendment that that you saw. There are a series of findings here. We do believe that um they comply with the with the findings for zoning change. Um you know um uh that the map amendment furthers the purposes of the zoning code which is again orderly development of of land um and that it is consistent with the uh comprehensive plan. I won't go into all the detail unless you have specific questions on it. But um but again, there are a series of findings associated with this. We do support the resoning, but also respect that the plan commission may want more detail. The the city zoning code uh I'll say is very robust when it comes to multifamily development design guidelines. They are codified. Um we've had certainly good success with them. When you look at um the um uh Northern

Manet, the Paul Juicy, excuse me, Paul Juicy's uh development, the Summer Ridge development, and the um uh Drumland Crossing developments were all under zoning. Um one was straight zoning, one had PDD just because of a a density issue. Um but I will defer to the plan commission's um preferences when it comes to a final action if they want more details associated with this. We would work with petitioners to get that.

Great. So um we're going to go into public hear public comments for this public hearing right now. Um, so if there's anyone that would like to come to the podium um to state uh their name and their address on this particular matter, again, this would be the reszoning of this property. Yep. So, my name is Patrick Winter. I suppose I have a my question first when I state my address is uh I'm N6774 Maple Court. So, I'm a land owner adjoining to the south. So, I'm in the town and I understand this is a a city meeting. Am I still able to make a public comment here?

So, I um I'll state first of all, I think I'm a proponent of all different types of of housing, different levels of housing. Um you know, attainable by people of different income levels in our city, in our town. I think that's a very important thing. One of the things that makes me nervous or I think my comment would change based on knowing what was going to, you know, the type of multif family housing that was going to go in this area, right? I might say something different based on one site plan than I would based on a different proposed site plan. I can say just in terms of redevelopment of this area or development of this area, I I put a new driveway in my lot and did some stuff within the past few weeks and there's agricultural drainage tile surrounding this field that drains out into lots to the south. So, there's a lot of water drainage that's coming through in different areas and redevelopment, depending on what it was, could potentially have some impacts there that I I think I need to write up and and get to the city. Um, but I guess that's just my my main comment is uh knowing what was going in that lot would probably dictate the type of public comment that that I would make and it just makes me a little bit nervous and hesitant uh to approve something without having more of a solid plan in place. So, I suppose I'll I'll leave my comment at that.

Thank you. Any other public comments for this hearing? Anyone online?

Great. So, um seeing no more public comments, um we will close it. for this hearing at 7:31. Um is would the applicant um Mr. Mr. Waring, would you like to make any other Would you like to make any other comments about the reasonzoning for this? Do did you have any other um comments or thoughts that you like to put for this particular matter, which would be the reasoning of this pro?

Um we do have a very preliminary concept. um you know the the site um is we're trying to lay out where the buildings face the street. So you have the front facades garages are hidden by the backs of the buildings. Um so what you see from the SE street and the neighboring property are the front facades of the building which um again very conceptual but there's been talk of stone brick um combination on on these these buildings. Um they're very tasteful and fit into um a community well.

Great. Thanks. We might have some more questions for you if that's okay. Thank you. Okay. And we're on number eight of our agenda, which is where the commission can go ahead and enter discussion um where we can ask questions of staff or the applicant um regarding our concerns or support for the amendment. Um so planning commission um do you have any thoughts? Um, we're talking multi-ousing that can go from anything from duplexes to 24 unit buildings. Um, do you know a question to the petitioner, I guess. Do you know how big the units are? What what are you looking at for for this property? you know, we we looked at this piece intending to stay within the bulk regulations of the zoning that we're asking for. Um, this conceptual plan we have right now um would be about about five about five buildings.

We um if you can go ahead let him let him finish statement and then you can um state your name and your address. Thank you. Okay. This is he this is Mark Mark Newman. You can go ahead. Would you like to state your name and your address, please? Mark Newman. I live at 128 West Wisconsin Avenue, unit 502, uh in Okanomok, Wisconsin. Great.

I had not really planned to speak. So, if I seem a little bit off, it's because of that. Um, however, working with Greg Loose and Dave on this project, we built a project that's almost the same uh out in Wales about 10 years ago. It's beautiful. It's held up perfect. The units are wonderful. And I can answer your questions. The the final exact details are not in place. So, I don't want to lead you to believe that, but we do plan to put the brick and stone combination on the exterior of the buildings. We've got this set up. I can actually even show you some pictures if you'd like to see of what we have out there. What you got here?

This is Lincoln. This is this is our we're really it's it's been a wonderful project for us. It's at the corner if you're familiar with Kettle Marine High School. Um it's right on the corner by Kettle Marine High School. It's a it's a beautiful project. It's held up well. There's significant expenditure in the brick and the stone that you can see on the front of the building. And when Dave was describing this that we set it up such that the um garages are on the backs and hidden from the street. I won't say 100% hidden, but we've got this set up that what you'll see from the street is the front of our building. There's a single attached garage to each unit where there's direct entry from the garage into the units. Um we found that to be so popular here in Wisconsin because obviously the winters you walk right into your unit, but it's also we found um that it's a safety issue as well that people can park in their garage and walk right into their unit. that's been very very popular um from a safety perspective as well. Um I don't know how much more I should go into. You ask on the size of the units. The size of the units on onebedroom units about 850 square ft give or take. Uh the twobedroom units are anywhere from about 1,50 to,300 square ft. Um to to hopefully put your minds at ease a bit. We know this project works in Wales and we believe that the situation here is very very similar to what we did in Wales and we're planning on doing basically the same type of thing that we did out there. Uh as far as construction, it's um the building numbers in the units are not exactly described. There won't be anything as large as 24 units and there won't be anything as small as three units. Um there'll probably be five buildings on the property uh with the front building facing the street giving you this sort of a facade as you drive in the street. You're concerned about the aesthetic value as it as um people drive by it

here in the city of Lake Mills. Very much our concern as well. Uh and then the buildings that are perpendicular to that will have the facade such that when you're running up and down the street, you'll see the fronts of the buildings as opposed to uh the garages. So I I don't I can go in as much detail as you want because we've got we built the building. We're probably going to do something exact, you know, not exactly very very similar here. It's from what I can see it's perfect for this project. So roughly how many units per building?

There would be anywhere from uh again there's some planning here someplace between 13 and 21 units per building. Um this is I believe a 17 unit building that you're looking at here to give some perspective. They're two twostory um yeah they're twotory wood frame construction on a uh slab foundation if that helps. Multifamily R312 allows for 12 units per acre and then the design of the buildings goes through the administrative review process. So,

right, we do not I mean, we do not intend if we do do anything different, we would have to come back here anyway, but we do not intend to vary from the uh zoning that we're requesting. So, we would not expect to ask for what's the right terminology, the overlay uh of something different. We would expect to comply with the zoning uh per your plans, parking spaces, um all all of the requirements that are in that uh R123 zoning. Yeah. Go ahead, Chris. Um, would these be market rate units?

Yes. Oh, price range of the units. The units that we have now are renting anywhere, this is off top of my head. Like I said, I didn't come prepared for this, but they're between uh say $1,450 and $1,800 a month. When I looked at rentals here in the city of Lake Mills, it was comparable. I mean, it's it's not a lot different than what we're dealing with out in Wales in terms of uh comparable units. Do you So, do you have any efficiency units? I know I know when we discussed this on the Highway B thing, they were talking about wanting smaller, more affordable units.

We do not We have We'll have one-bedroom units and two-bedroom units. I We also do not have in the plans any threebedroom at this point in time. And I I can only tell you that in Wales with the floor plans that we've used and and the that that onecar garage that's attached that you can get out of your car and walk right into your unit has been so popular that we're going to stick with that sort of plan. Um city staff. So if if if this because of this is a two-part and the first part being a change to our um our map for that to go through the city that needs three three readings. Is that right?

The future land use map is an ordinance change which will require three readings of the ordinance at the city. So just for that how long how long does it take just for that part? Um a month and a half. A month and a half. The zoning amendment follows the same. It it requires three readings as well. So usually if then does that you if if they're both passed that usually done in tandem or is it one and a half and then it can be um it all depends when the recommendation from the plan commission comes on each one.

Great. Thank you. Planning commission. Any other thoughts, comments? I mean, I guess I have a thought, okay, because I I just want to make sure that we're meeting um the applicants needs as well. If if we were if if I'm just don't want to lead anyone here, but if if we if this were to be paused, right, this conversation be paused until after the readings are done and that um and that land use map gets ver validated by the city council. Um I'm I'm curious like what kind of information what kind of questions do you have any questions for us? things that you think that we want to know um that we want to see in your in the building of these properties like you know because we have opinions sometimes but they don't come out until the last second unless like we really eek them out of these guys here. So like I'm just wondering if you have any questions. Um not I mean we've studied it the the concept of the water runoff and that is certainly going to be part of our engineering plan. We'll be dealing with that in detail. Um, I I can only say that that as I look at this and I see the opportunity to put um a good number of families uh here that provide across the street to the grocery store and down the road to a variety of restaurants and and the Quick Trip and uh everything else that's down there and the access to the freeway. It just seems like an ideal to me and I'm not inflicting this view on anybody else, but it just seems like a logical place to put um this sort of a project.

Yes. I guess the only thing I'm thinking about is like because we don't have any images or pictures or anything that was part of this agenda. um the our our our the 6,500 people that we kind of represent don't have that information and they might want it if they were to be part of this conversation as well. And so I feel kind of obligation to them. And so your drawings look beautiful. Um but no one gets to see them aside the people in the room, you know. And so that's that's just kind of where I'm I'm at. But I I 100% I wouldn't have voted um for the um change to the map if I didn't agree with you. Um, but I do want to be making sure that I'm representing them well.

Yeah. Just thoughts. You all are in charge that much. I know for sure. Any thoughts? No thoughts? Are we sure? Okay, we're No, we have nothing else. No other questions. We're all good. Um, so I mean there's a lot of different directions, right? um that we can go. Um so seeing no more input, we could make any kind of motion um to the zoning change request from single family R14 to multif family planned business.

Planned business, I'm sorry, you are correct. Planned business to multifamily residential R312 brought to by Greyar. Um approve you can approve the amendment as written. can approve the amendment with modifications and conditions. We can deny the amendment. We can continue the hearing for a future date. Um hearing all motions at this. I'll move to approve. Mr. Holman will second. And what you're uh what you're moving for is the prepared amendment. Yes. As written. Is that correct? So, Miss Silva, it's been moved by Miss Silva to approve the minute as written and seconded by Mr. Homeman.

Yes. Great. I ask for a roll call vote. Is there any discussion? Is there any discussion? Yes. Thank you, Mr. Waters, for keeping me honest here. So, if we approve this, are we stuck with something then? Is that If you It's a motion to recommend Okay. to that the city council adopt an ordinance that changes the zoning in accordance with what the ordinance says. So from plan business to R312 the process at the council level once they receive your recommendation or a a non-recommendation is to address the issue go through the process and either adopt that or not. There can be more information at that level the process itself.

So Mr. Mr. What I'm hearing you say is that um if this is approved as written recommended if it's recommended as written. Thank you. Um that um they could come to the city council with Oh, this is the public hearing. Yeah, there certainly will be three readings at the city council with drawings and everything else.

It's not required. I think that's something that um maybe in my opinion you guys are getting a little bit bogged down on. Um I I think if you look at this procedurally and in accordance with what the zoning code says, this changes this is a recommendation to change zoning from plan business which has certain structure requirements to develop in accordance with to R312 multifamily which has very specific requirements. What you're saying is this parcel which is 6.72 acres once you amend the future land use map in accordance with R312 and then you amend the zoning in accordance with R312 that they can then build up to 12 units per acre on this parcel

if those the units cannot be single family they cannot be duplexes they must be multifamily dwellings three or more okay with future readings that will have more information. Yeah. Okay. Thanks. Any other firm further comment on this? Okay. So, it's approved by Miss has been moved by Miss Silva to approve the amendment as written and seconded by Mr. Homeman. Um, seeing no further comments. Okay. I'll ask for a roll call vote. Mr. Grady, I. Mr. Waters, I. Miss Heim Street

I Miss Silva I Mr. Hman I Miss Hi. Motion passes 6. Okay. Thank you. Appreciate y'all. Thank you.

All right. Next um is number nine. And these are also two very um kind of separate public hearings. Um one is uh and both from the Lake Mills area school district. So I'm packing them one by one. The first is a zoning amendment request changing two land parcels 246 0713 0133003 and 246 0713 0133004 lots 2 and 3 of CSM2400 off Oasis Lane and then moving those parcels from rural development to planned business. And so, and if I'm not mistaken, is is the bus barn being built on this property, which is part of the referendum that was passed last year. Um, so is that right?

I'm not 100% certain of that. There was funding approved for the bus. Yeah, funding approved, right? Yeah, correct. Thank you. Um, this is part So, everything that gets annexed and comes in as a real development and then there needs to be a zoning change to the ultimate uh use. And so that's where this project process started from and where it's at now. Great. Um Drake or Troy, do you have any additional comments or presentation that you'd like to provide?

I I think Drake just kind of touched on it. I mean, the the procedure when they annex into the city is they they're designated RD and then it gives the city the ability to um I guess reszone it to the appropriate zoning. And uh since the future land use map uh this will be consistent with the future land use map to go to to planned business. So there won't be the process of modifying the future land use map. This would just be a straight up reszone from RD uh which would be non-compliant for this project and for this size parcels anyway to go to a compliant uh PB zoning designation which would be uh the the zoning that we would want to use for uh this proposed uh building up there anyway.

Great. Thank you. So we have um hear public comments now on this matter. Um so if you have any thoughts about this particular issue, please come to the podium, state your name, address. This is the public hearing for item number seven for item number nine on today's agenda. Any comments online? Okay, seeing no comments online or in this room, um we'll close the public comment for this hearing at 7:49. Is is there an applicant applicant here today for this matter or is this

school district? Would you like to say anything or do you have anything else?

No. So what I hear from the audience is that there is no um issue to present make a pres presentation for this particular matter. Okay. So now we're on item number 10 of our agenda where the commission can enter discussion ask questions of staff. Uh any thoughts on this amendment for this zoning amendment request? Yeah, Mr. Waters. So, uh, in this Oasis Lane area, um, it seems like there's probably some other attached to land that is already zoned as planned business. Is that correct? I I think it's just the future land use map maybe you were looking at as planned business.

Maybe because I we do have a couple of parcels up there, but a lot of that's township, but we do have a couple of that. Are those planned business on the southside? I can't remember to be honest with you. uh working from I believe the county the county property and then toppel what else I went to the f the the the presentation earlier tonight and I I couldn't I couldn't tell by honestly I wasn't prepared for that but I know that whole area is in the future land use map is proposed to be PB that that off of Oasis Lane there so I can't quite remember exactly what we have them zoned at the couple that are in the city if they are zoned PB but I'm I'm assuming they are I know there's a couple businesses is in that area.

Yeah. Couple like the the motel and the gas station are in the township still. So they wouldn't be um any zoning district city zoning district yet. Okay. But the future land use map has them proposed to be if they ever get annexed in PB. Everything in the town everything in the city is PB. Everything that's currently annexed in the city is zoned as planned business.

Okay. That's why I thought Thank you. Any other questions or comments? No other questions and comments? Okay. Um so seeing no more input from the commission. Um would anyone like to make a motion regarding the zoning amendment change for these lots? Um two and three of CSM 2400 off Oasis Lane. Change them from rural development to planned business. I move approval of the uh prepared ordinance in which we would be recommending approval of this um reszoning.

I'll second that. Has been moved by Miss Lazarus to approve the amendment as written and seconded by Mrs. Heim Street. Any questions, comments before we move to a roll call vote? Seeing none, we'll move to a roll call vote. Mr. Waters. Hi Miss Hein Street. I Miss Silva. I Mr. Hman. I Miss Lazerus. I Mr. Greedy. I. Motion passes 6.

All right. This moves number 11 of our agenda. Um so this particular public hearing is regard the desired addition to Lake Mills High School um located at 615 Catalyn Drive and part of the referendum passed last year for the funding. Um and we are being asked to amend um the existing conditional use of this property allow the school to build an addition of approximately 28,000 square ft. City staff, any presentation, comments regarding this matter?

Uh, sure. So, this should be very similar to the one you guys looked at earlier this spring. We did one for the elementary school. Uh, what this is a requirement by by our code uh once there's an addition or a modification to a building that has a conditional use that the uh our ordinance requires us to bring it back in front uh of another to amend the conditional use. to make sure you guys are aware uh that they're modifying what was uh approved at one time. You know, obviously the school's not changing the use. Uh staff has been looking at the potential plans out there and everything seems to be um you know, no no red flags whatsoever with the addition that is proposed yet. Um so yeah, staff's here to recommend the approval uh of the amendment of the existing conditional use. Okay. Um, so now we're entering again this is the public hearing. So we're entering the public comment portion. So please come to the podium, state your name, address for the record if you have any other comments regarding this partic particular topic. Any comments from the audience? None. And online is none. All right. Um so seeing no um public comments um we're going to close at 7:54 um anybody like to make a presentation? You guys good?

We're good. Um so this moves us along to our agenda item number 12 where condition can enter discussion ask questions of staff regarding um uh the amending uh the existal conditional use on the property um of the high school to build approximately 28,000 square ft addition um as um passed by the referendum in 2024. Any questions, comments? No questions, comments. We're feeling good. Everyone knows what we're doing here. All right. Um, so seeing no input from the commission regarding this matter, um, any mo I'll take any motions to approve it. Um, deny, continue the hearing, whatever we want to do.

I'll I'll make a motion to approve it. So, we're approving the conditional use permit. We're approving the amending the conditional existing conditional use permit. I'll second. So, it's been has been moved by Miss Here

uh to approve the amendment um to of the existing to approve the amendment as written. So, that would be amending the existing conditional use at Lake Mills High School and it's been seconded by Miss Silva. Any questions, comments? No questions, comments. Okay, I'm gonna ask for a roll call vote.

Miss Heim Street, I Miss Silva, I Mr. Homeman, I Miss Zerus, I Mr. Grady, I Mr. Waters, I. Motion passes 6-0.

All right, thanks. Almost done. Number 13 on the agenda is uh our last um of the main business for tonight, and that is a designation of public art on 301 West Lake Street. Um city staff, any Sure. Uh so what this is, uh Legendary Lake Mills, which I there's a couple of representatives here that'll probably maybe give you guys a little presentation here too when I'm done. But what what this is is basically they're asking for you guys to designate this as public art. Uh what that allows them to do is it doesn't fall under our category for signage and there's the the restrictions aren't as limited um to uh the size and and location of of the mural. So they, you know, if you guys looked at the the memo or or the drawings that they they want to put the mural on the full east side of that building facing Main Street. So that's the request is that you guys consider this to be a public work of art and allow them to um install this mural on that wall. And they've done a pretty good job. They've got um you know, some pretty good detail of what was going to go on the wall. They've got a an agreement with the property owner and they've got, you know, how it's going to be maintained and uh they've pretty done a pretty good job of dotting all their eyes and crossing their tees for this mural. Great. Thank you. Would you all like to make a presentation for us? Thank you. If you can come to the microphone, state your name and your address. Uh Raina Severson, execut This is crazy to hear my voice in a microphone. Sorry. Uh Raina Severson, executive director of Legendary Lake Mills. Um you know, we are a Chamber Main Street organization.

Our mission is to make Lake Mills a better place to live, to visit, and to do business. Um we've got four pillars that we focus on in our organization. One of them being design. Um, in 2024, we were awarded gold tier Main Street. Um, we were awarded as a gold tier Main Street program, which means that we were just a handful of Main Street programs in Wisconsin that were um overachieving. And with that, we got a lot of extra support from Wisconsin Economic Development as well as Main Street America. With that, we got a transformational strategy. We had a a consultant come in and kind of work with us on what we could do to just better uh support our community, advertise our community, things like that. They walked us through. We did a community survey. We um had a variety of focus groups. We took all of that information and kind of looked at our program and refocused um as to, you know, just what we could do in the sense of building more of a positive environment. Um feeling a sense of community in Lake Mills. and a lot of the survey results uh were saying that they wanted to have a mural in Lake Mills. Uh the consultant also talked with us about how in a community of our size, we have so many offerings that are involved in the arts, all different aspects. We've got pottery studios. We've got art galleries. We've got live entertainment every weekend. We've got um

performances, theater performances in these businesses as well. And what her suggestion was, this consultant was that we really focus on as far as uh getting tourism and things like that to focus on the art aspect of our community and the performance and all of these things that our community of this size has to offer. It's very special and pretty unique. Um and so with that, we kind of had a goal that we wanted to continue along the design pillar and really focus on community um art installations. So with that being said, we really would like to see this be passed through. Um, you know, Peggy, uh, is the designer of this mural and she really took a lot of time, um, looking at what we had and what we got from this strategy and our kind of new focus and using that information as well as what the city as a whole has to offer, the special parts of the city. Um, I put in the proposal, you know, this mural has it showcases Rock Lake. It showcases um, you know, the beautiful greenery that we have. Um, we're so lucky to have Commons Park, all of that green space. And, um, yeah, she really put a lot of time and effort into this. The other thing that I thought was really amazing that Peggy did in this is that she has in the designs that you guys saw um noting that we are a designated tree city. And then also there are future plans um to add

that when we are a designated bird city to add that on there too. In this mural there are not only many trees but also birds so that we can add that later. So, not only do we think that this aligns with our mission um to have more community beautifification, art installations, keep on showcasing our wonderful community that has so much art, but also to increase um the love of our community and showcase what the city has done to um you know, just maintain all of that beautiful greenery and the nature that we have here. Um, I would be happy to answer any questions that you guys have. I think like Troy said, I think you said I did a pretty good job, but I feel like it was pretty tight. Um, there's a lot of information in there. We have a plan for maintenance. Um, we also have a plan to add a QR code on the side of the building. um that brings you to a page on our website that will showcase all of the information on why we wanted this mural to happen as well as um the thought process that Peggy had that was laid out in the proposal and then um donations for maintenance in the future um which all of this has already been agreed upon between the artists and the property owner. Thank you. We might have some more questions, but maybe not.

That's totally fine. All right, planning commission. Now's the time to ask any questions you have of the city or applicant and discuss your thoughts. I I can kind of see the art rendering there and it looks like it's a little bit different than the uh what was in the memo prepared by our zoning administrator.

Correct. So, what was submitted was just the rendering. This is now a more accurate depiction of what will be on the building. As you can see, the colors are a little bit um I would I don't want to say less vibrant because this is a very vibrant mural, but it maybe is more cohesive with the downtown um kind of aesthetic and things to that nature. Not a ton has changed, but if you guys if you want to do you want to walk it around, show them. You can take a little bit of a closer look. Thanks, Peggy.

Yeah, it did change.

Sorry. Very nice. [Applause] Great.

Okay. And that's the building. Okay. It's going to be on the side of it. Okay. Yep. Right. Great. Any other thoughts, questions? Will you be painting it directly on the building or will it be on

It will be directly on the building. Yes. Um it it's kind of a perfect canvas right there. It's right next to um you know where this location is, right? Yeah. Right next to the dance studio. It's just a perfect canvas. And um the property owner is excited about having it just right on the building and um primed and ready to go. Any other questions? Thank you all. Appreciate it. Thanks for the contribution. Um, see no input from the commission and thanks for sticking around for 13 agenda items. Appreciate it.

We are more than happy to do so. Any any other thoughts regarding the motion um to to anyone willing to motion regarding the designation of public art and move to approve motion 2581? Mr. Mr. Holman will uh move to approve the motion as presented. Second. That's been moved by Mr. Holman to approve the amendment as written and seconded by Miss Lazarus. Any questions? Any thoughts? I think it's great. It'll really look nice on that building. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. I'll ask for a roll call vote. Miss Silva,

I Mr. Hman, I Miss Hi, Mr. Grady. Hi, Mr. Waters. I Miss Heim Street, I. Motion passes 6. All right. Thank you all. Appreciate you. Um, next is recommendation for future agenda items. Are there any from anything from city staff that we can anticipate next month? Uh perhaps the zoning change request from Northern Management Company off of Tyrannina. Okay.

Uh the plan commission I believe postponed it until after the city council made a determination on the future land use map. Great. Thank you. Anything from the planning commission that you would hope to put on future agendas? No, not yet. Okay. Um, so we'll move uh to 15. I'll take a motion to adjournment. I'll move. I'll second. Moved by Miss Silva, second miss by Miss Heim Street to adjourn today's uh planning commission. All in favor say I. I. All oppose say no. All right. This meeting's been this meeting's been adjourned.