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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