TOWN OF WEST POINT
PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING
Pursuant to Wisconsin State Statues 19.84 the Planning Commission of the Town of West Point held their semi-monthly meeting on Thursday, March 3, 2005 at the West Point Town Hall, N2114 Rausch Road, Lodi, Wisconsin. The meeting was posted in three places as required by law and on the web. Doug Richmond called the meeting to order at 7:45 p.m. Members present were: Doug Richmond (town board representative), Scott King, Sheila Landsverk, and Gordon Carncross. Absent were Fred Madison, Cliff Lawton and Kevin Kessler. Also present was Edith Eberle-Town Clerk, Joe Costanza Town Engineer, and Dean Schwarz-4th Supervisor.
Agenda #3 – Approve Minutes from February 17, 2005 – The minutes were emailed to all planning commission members prior to the meeting. Sheila Landsverk had corrections that she went over with the Planning Commission members. After discussion a motion was made by Scott King to have the minutes revised with the corrections added and present them back to the Planning Commission at the March 17th meeting, 2nd by Gordon Carncross – motion carried.
Agenda #4 – Correspondence - an email from Town Engineer Joe Costanza on Marie Walsch at N1961 Unke Road – Parcel # 167.1 has 2 acres that is zoned single family resident. Ms. Walsch will be doing a CSM to construct another house on the wooded area north of the existing house. No papers have been filed with the Town of West Point. Sheila Landsverk stated that she has received or will be receiving letters of support for the Lake Planning Grant from the Town of Lodi, Columbia County Planning and Zoning, Columbia County Land and Water Conservation, Ferry Bluff Eagle Council and the Harmony Grove Lake District.
Agenda #5 – Citizens Input – None
Agenda #6 – Revisions of the Erosion Control and Storm Water Management Plan – Town Engineer Joe Costanza has done a revised copy of the Erosion Control and Storm Water Management Ordinance to comply with NR151. Copies were given to each Planning Commission member for review. Joe Costanza went over the proposed changes with the Planning Commission members. Each member of the Planning Commission is to review the proposed revision to the Erosion Control and Storm Water Management Plan and get comments back to Joe Costanza. Sheila Landsverk will do a sheet with the suggested changes etc that were discussed (which are being attached to the minutes) at tonight's meeting and email them to all Planning Commission members for review. The Erosion Control and Storm Water Management Plan will be on the April 7th Planning Commission meeting.
Agenda #7 – Discussion of Rezoning/Expanding the Conditional Use Permit for Jim Meister at W11912 County V – Tax Parcel #541.C – The Planning Commission discussed the Jim & Kathy Meister property at W11912 County V request of possible expanding the Conditional Use Permit or Rezoning to Industrial. The Meister's are currently using more acreage for their business than is covered in the current conditional use permit. They would like to have the additional acreage added. The following comments were of concern: soil, piles of dirt need to be contained and protected from runoff, refuse, the site needs to be cleaned up, vandalism, and lighting. The Planning Commission was most interested in not rezoning to industrial and looking at some way to sunset the usage in the long term, such as five years, and cleans it up in the short term, if it meant adding acreage in the short term. The Planning Commission would like Doug Richmond to contact Columbia County Planning and Zoning with the following concerns/questions – can Columbia County negotiate to rescind the old Conditional Use Permit and then create a new Conditional Use permit adding the acreage in question, but with a sunset clause? The restrictions that the Planning Commission would like put on the Conditional Use Permit are noise, lighting, visual, and pollution. A motion was made by Sheila Landsverk to postpone agenda items #7, #8, #9 and #10 to the March 17th meeting, 2nd by Doug Richmond – motion carried.
Agenda #8 – Industrial/Commercial Zoning – motion on Agenda #7
Agenda #9 – Discussion of the Planning Commission Activities for 2005 – motion on Agenda #7
Agenda #10 – Proposed Updates to the WI Shore land Management Program NT115 – motion on Agenda #7
Agenda #14 – Next Meeting Agenda – Speaker from the Leopold Foundation, Maple Crest Subdivision, Discussion of Rezoning/Expanding the Conditional User Permit for Jim Meister, Discussion of the Planning Commission Activities for 2005, Industrial/Commercial Zoning, Proposed Updates to the WI Shoreland Management Program NR115, and any other agenda items that may legally be added by the Town Clerk.
Agenda #15 Adjourn Meeting – a motion was made by Scott King to adjourn the meeting at 10:35 p.m., 2nd by Doug Richmond – motion carried.
Respectfully Submitted
Edith K Eberle
Town Clerk
Attachment to March 3, 2005 Planning Commission minutes:
Discussion items of 3/03/05DRAFT “An Ordinance to Create Erosion Control and [Private] Storm Water Runoff Standards for the Town of West Point - presented by Joe Costanza, Town Engineer.
[Italicized sections are additions to existing ordinance]
Note: add pagination to your current document for ease of discussion/review
*Areas of Note needing further discussion*
Standards for Construction Site Erosion and Sediment control
· Section 9b – “on an average annual basis” [p. 8]
· Section 9b3 – should be italicized [p.11 ]
Performance Standard for Sedimentation: [p. 12]
· Section 9d3Ai – stricter than NR151, should it be changed to 80%?
· Section 9d3Aii- MEP – do we want this here- connection to above.
Performance Standards – Peak Discharge:
· Section 9e2 A&B: delete [p. 13]
Performance Standards – Infiltration/residential dev:
· Section 9f1A – increase volume to be more than 90%; increase 1% project site [p. 13]
· Section 9f1B- increase 25%
Performance Standards – Non-Residential: [p. 14]
· Section 9f2A&B – lower infiltrations for commercial/industrial because don’t want pollutants infiltrating into groundwater, let it go into rivers and streams
· Section 9f2E – Exclusions
· Section 9f2F – Exemptions
Protective Areas [p.17] - g
Delete 9 g1A – ORWs
9g1B – add ‘or rivers’ after streams
9g3B – ‘it is recommended that seeding…’ change to’ it is required that…’ [p. 19]
Fees for Engineering Review and Enforcement [p. 27]
· Is permitting process rigorous enough? Is filing fee too small?
Violations – Section 13 [p. 30]
· Discussion – are fees too low? How is developer accountable? Should current 1 yr bond on developer be 5 yr?
Appeals or Variance Requests – Section 14 [p.31]
· Fee too low?
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