ERIN ZONING REVIEW/SMART GROWTH COMMITTEE



 

On June 16th, 2008, the town board approved the Town of Erin 2035 Comprehensive Plan. This plan will be used to guide development in the town.

UPDATE:  11-17-2009

PUBLIC HEARING:  MONDAY NOVEMBER 30TH, 2009 AT 6:30 PM AT THE ERIN TOWN HALL, ON APPROVAL OF THE UPDATED ZONING MAP BY TOWN BOARD
 

FOR MORE INFORMATION, AND TO VIEW THE MAPS, CLICK THE SHIELD BELOW

                                                                 

 

TOWN OF ERIN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN

The following are the chapters in the draft plan. Due to size, each chapter has its own file. The entire plan is approximately 306 pages. The are in PDF format.





TITLE

CHAPTER I    INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND

CHAPTER II    EXISTING PLANS AND ORDINANCES

CHAPTER III    POPULATION, HOUSEHOLD, AND EMPLOYMENT TRENDS AND PROJECTIONS

CHAPTER IV    ISSUES AND OPPORTUNITIES ELEMENT

CHAPTER V    AGRICULTURAL, NATURAL, AND CULTURAL RESOURCES ELEMENT

CHAPTER VI    LAND USE ELEMENT

CHAPTER VII    HOUSING ELEMENT

CHAPTER VIII    TRANSPORTATION ELEMENT

CHAPTER IX    UTILITIES AND COMMUNITY FACILITIES ELEMENT

CHAPTER X    ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ELEMENT

CHAPTER XI    INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION ELEMENT

CHAPTER XII    IMPLEMENTATION ELEMENT   

CHAPTER XIII    SUMMARY

GLOSSARY

APPENDICES

ENTIRE PLAN  (WARNING 25 MB)

HISTORY:

I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the residents who have read our “Planning Update” newsletters and/or participated in our Public Input Meetings. Your comments have been most helpful in our planning.

The Committee was randomly picked with the help of UW-Extension. Many factors were taken into consideration including gender, age, how long you have lived in the town, lot size, where in the Town you lived, etc. The purpose of this selection was to get a true cross section of the residents of Erin. Randomly selected member recommendations were given to the Town Board who then appointed the Committee. It is an eleven member committee, with two members of the Plan Commission and one member from the Town Board.

One of the primary goals of the Committee is to get as much citizen participation as possible. Our meetings are open to the public and we encourage you to attend. We have attempted to educate the Town on our progress through Planning Update Newsletters and Public Input Meetings. We also have a site on the Town web page and comments can be left there as well. We will not be able to answer questions left on the web page but we will certainly read your comments. Residents also have the option of contacting any member of the Committee.

Back in 2003, after the committee completed authoring the town’s land use plan, the town board and plan commission gave the committee three tasks, in addition to working on the smart growth plan. They were:  1) Create a cluster subdivision ordinance, 2) Update our zoning enforcement provisions, and 3) Create a road plan. To date, the committee has accomplished these tasks.

Now, we are to identifying areas that will need to be addressed as Erin moves forward with the state mandated Comprehensive Planning requirement that goes into affect in 2010. In developing our Comprehensive 2035 plan, the town partnered with Washington County and 10 other municipalities in the county. The county applied for and received a state grant to cover much of the cost of developing the plan. There are four committees at the county level that drafted the plan, with assistance from SEWRPC, the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. The committees are: Mulit-Jurisdictional Advisory; Agricultural, Cultural & Natural Resources; Land Use & Transportation; Utilities, Community Facilities, Economic Development & Housing. Currently, all the committees have completed their duties, with the exception of the Advisory Committee.

Erin had a spot for a representative on each committee.

Our committee has also finished work on the Conceptual Road Plan. The purpose of the plan is to address the transportation needs in the town until 2035. We also want to plan for efficient transportation and emergency access, and to allow residents to know where future roads may go, so there will be no “surprises”. The plan will be mainly development driven, meaning that most of the roads will only be built as land or subdivisions are developed. We planned for new roads on large tracts of undeveloped land, were development is most likely to occur someday, and connections between existing roads  with safety and emergency vehicle access as some of the most important factors we used to plan where the new roads would go. In most cases, if land stays undeveloped, the roads will not be built. That is a very important fact to remember.
 

The following two maps are both current as of March 2009, and have been approved by the town board.