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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., and was a joint
meeting with the Town of
Friendship. The next meeting was held on Monday, March 24, 2008
at 6:30 p.m. after
postcards were mailed to town residents. Meetings have been
held on June 12th, July 7th,
August 18th, with the next meeting scheduled for Wednesday,
September 24th, 6:30 p.m.
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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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