Smart Growth
TOWN OF BLACK WOLF

380 E. Black Wolf Avenue

Oshkosh, WI  54902

Phone:  (920) 688-1404     Fax: (920) 688-1405

E-mail:  tbw@northnet.net

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State of Wisconsin - Smart Growth Initiative

The Town of Black Wolf has formed a Plan Commission and will work with Martinson & Eisele to complete its Comprehensive Plan in 2008.     The first meeting was held on Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.          This was a joint meeting with the Town of Friendship.

 The next meeting was held on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.  Postcards were mailed to town residents inviting them to attend. Notice of future meetings will be posted.

 

The Smart Growth Initiative enacted in the 1999-2001 state budget bill is a landmark effort by state officials to encourage sound land use planning by local communities. The state's first attempt to curb urban sprawl and promote better land use, Smart Growth creates financial incentives for municipalities to devise and follow land use plans that meet state guidelines.

Those state guidelines to be considered when local officials write land-use plans include:

Conservation of farm land and natural resources, including groundwater, forests, floodplains, wetlands, wildlife habitat, parks and recreational resources.

Future development of utilities and community facilities, including sewers, water supplies, waste disposal, water treatment, recycling, parks, telecommunications, power plants and transmission lines, cemeteries, health care, police and fire services, libraries and schools.

Future transportation needs and how they will relate to regional and state transportation plans.

Existing housing stock and programs to promote development of a range of housing choices.

Economic development goals, including an analysis of the community's existing labor force, ability to attract and retain businesses and provisions for promoting redevelopment of environmentally contaminated sites.

20-year projections for future development and redevelopment of public and private land.

Under Smart Growth, a total of $3.5 million will be made available to help local governments pay for developing a land use plan. Preference will be given to communities that:

Address the interests of neighboring communities.

Identify "Smart Growth" areas where development or redevelopment can occur adjacent to existing development.

Provide opportunities for public participation throughout the planning process.

The pool of state grant funds may be added to in future years, but the grant program will end July 1, 2010.


Smart Growth Dividend

Additional state aid, called a Smart Growth Dividend, will be available beginning in 2005 for municipalities and counties that have developed a comprehensive plan that meets state standards and that have enacted zoning and subdivision ordinances consistent with that plan.

The University of Wisconsin Extension will draft model zoning ordinances that, for urban areas, encourage traditional, compact, mixed-use neighborhoods and, for rural areas, encourage "conservation subdivisions" with compact lots and common open space. Municipalities with more than 12,500 people are required to adopt the ordinance by 2002, although they're not required to approve specific proposals for development.

Beginning in 2005, the Smart Growth program also will reward communities that can show increases in compact development and moderately priced housing.

Beginning Jan. 1, 2010, all incorporations, annexations, boundary changes, plat approvals, zoning ordinances, or other land use regulation approved by a community must be consistent with its adopted land use plan.

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