PLANNING, RESOURCES AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

PUBLIC HEARING

December 3, 2007

County Board Room – Administrative Center

6:00 p.m. –  6:30 p.m.  

CALL TO ORDER

The recessed meeting and Public Hearing of the Planning, Resources and Development Committee was called to order at 6:00 p.m. by Committee Chair George Hammes.  Let the record show that this meeting is called in full compliance with the requirements of the Wisconsin

Open Meetings Law.  The procedures for tonight’s meeting are explained to those gathered.

CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT NO. 767  Scott D. Lien, W7722 Old Highway 93, Holmen WI  54636.  Petition to operate a mobile construction equipment repair business from his residence and detached accessory building at W7722 Old Highway 93, on 0.75 acres of land zoned Agricultural District “A” and described as:  Lot 10 Meadows Addition.  Town of Holland.

Appearing in Favor:  Scott Lien, W7722 Old Highway 93, Holmen WI  54636.

You all have a copy of the impact statement.  I would like to run a mobile repair business as stated.  The work I will be doing is at the customers’ site.  So no business hours there, may occasionally bring a component home to work on, the outbuilding there has been a shop and used for storage so I may bring something in there, a cylinder or something small, there wouldn’t be anything outside.  I spoke with all the neighbors – nobody had any opposition.  Just handed to me today a letter from a couple who live behind me, the Falkenberg’s, Eugene and Elizabeth, W7735 Richwood Street.  (Read into record – no objection.)  Had this on the Town agenda, one of the larger parcel owners, Bob Chalsma, asked that I wait until County notice goes out, so I pulled it off the agenda and it is on the Town’s agenda for the December meeting. 

Question RAUK:  Is your shop heated?

Answer LIEN:  Yes.

Question RAUK:  Might you be doing some machine work late at night and noise might be a disturbance for neighbors?

Answer LIEN:  Can’t think of anything – guess I do have some hand grinders in there, my motorcycle is probably louder than any machining I might do, hasn’t been an issue, I would not have any noise for the neighborhood at any given hour.  If you would want a stipulation for that I would agree. 

Question RAUK:  If the building is heated, that insulation would also be sufficiently insulated for sound also?

Answer LIEN:  Yes.  And that building that’s there, I added an addition to the part closest to the neighbors – Nimmo’s and Berg’s, that back 15-ft is cold storage.  So that also isolates it from them.

Question HANSON:  You know that property just south of 93 - we went through a lot on that for commercial?

Answer LIEN:  That’s why I was very cautious in doing this.

Question HANSON:  Now you’ve said the neighbors are all ok with you but many of them were against commercial in this area.  What do you sense is the difference between yours and what was proposed across there?

Answer LIEN:  I’m not actually doing the business right there and some of the types of business coming into the area was the concern of the local neighborhood and mine as well.  Wasn’t necessarily what John McHugh was wanting to do, but the type of business that was coming in.

Question BLUSKE:  What kind of vehicle will you have - pickup, van, trailer pulled behind a vehicle?

Answer LIEN:  Service truck, similar to what I had when I worked for FABCO equipment.  FABCO not in La Crosse, offices in Madison, so I had a 1-ton service utility vehicle with a small crane, welder etc. on it.  Will have similar vehicle now, looking at a Ford 550 Super Duty or equivalent.  Will not always be inside.  If parked anywhere will be on the driveway to the accessory building.

Opposition:  None.

Correspondence:  None.

Department Recommendation:  Approve with 8 conditions:
          1.   No outside storage of any kind.

2.      The size of components brought to site for repair, except for truck used for this

                  purpose, shall be limited to them being fixed inside the shop.

3.      All repair activities are limited to the hours of 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. with the doors of the

      shop closed.

4.      Hazardous materials shall be disposed of on a regular monthly basis at a commercial

      facility with the Fire Department being notified of those items being stored on site.

5.      An office is allowed in the home.

6.      No signage allowed.

7.      The existing 44-ft x 45-ft detached accessory building is permitted for this use.

8.      Permit is nontransferable.

Motion Bina/Keil to approve with conditions as recommended.

6 ayes, 0 no, 1 abstain (Hammes).

ZONING PETITION NO. 1764  William Becker, d/b/a Becker Trailer Sales LLC, N6098 McKinley Rd, West Salem WI  54669; o/b/o Cal-West Seeds, Inc., PO Box 1428, Woodland CA  95776 and locally at N4505 County Rd M, West Salem WI  54669; and, acting in behalf of Ervin A. Nuttleman Jr., N5840 County Road DE, Bangor, WI 54614.  Petition to rezone from the Exclusive Agricultural District to Commercial District “C,” an approximately 5.0-acre parcel for expansion of the Trailer Sales business at W3889 County Road C, on land described as:  The North 250’ of that part of the SW-SE of Section 4, T 16 N, R 6 W lying Easterly of County Road C and further described in tax parcel number 7-114-0; and, that part of the NW-SE of Section 4, T 16 N, R 6 W described in tax parcel 7-113-0 lying south of the south line of Certified Survey Map No. 84 Volume 8 extended Westerly to County Road C.  Town of Hamilton. 

Bluske reviews amended map for this rezone.

Appearing in Favor:  William Becker, N6098 McKinley Valley Rd, West Salem WI  54669.  That part you’re talking about Jeff is correct.  There’s a 15-ft strip at the time between the Nuttleman and Young property, when they did the survey for the land that I bought.  They found that the fence line was off by 15 feet.  So rather than quarreling about it Mr. Nuttleman sold to me to the fence line so there’s always been a 15-ft strip behind that.  Since that I’ve been speaking with Mr. Nuttleman; I did a quit claim deed this weekend – it’ll be on file tomorrow with the County so that will take care of that piece.  As far as impacts there isn’t really too much. We are adding a circle driveway on property and being able to come out a bit, adding more trailers to up inventory to 300-400 trailers.  Existing driveways on County C so that won’t change anything.  Mr. Bluske had mentioned something about drainage.  It has proper drainage right now the way it lays out, kinda flows down into the middle.  Don’t plan to change that, maybe just smooth that out a little as it gets closer to the road.  We would only be putting in that circle drive which would be gravel, the rest would stay grass. 

Question KEIL:  You think the grass will control the water so it doesn’t wash the gravel?

Answer BECKER:  It’s worked on the other 2 acres I have there, every time we move things to mow we rotate things so the grass doesn’t die off.  Like to keep it that way too!

Opposition:  None.

Correspondence:  1)  Erving Nuttleman note dated November 27, 2007 authorizing Becker to act as agent for rezone petition.  2)  Letter from David Johnson of Cal-West Seeds, no opposition to rezone.  3)  Phone call received December 3, 2007 from Town Chairman Richard Schomburg.  Petition fits Town Land Use Plan.  Town has no objection rezone request.   

Department Recommendation:  Approve – consistent with Town Land Use Plan.

Motion Kapanke/Keil to approve. 

All ayes, motion passes unanimously.

ZONING PETITION NO. 1765  Eric Dummer, N5650 County Road E, Bangor WI  54614; o/b/o Rodney R. Loging, N2441 County Road YY, La Crosse WI  54601.  Petition to rezone from the Exclusive Agricultural District to Agricultural District “A,” a 0.63-acre parcel to be dedicated as a Town Road called Dummer Valley Drive and described as:  Part of the NW-NW and part of the NE-NW of Section 3, T 15 N, R 6 W, described as follows:  Commencing at the north quarter corner of Section 3, T 15 N, R 6 W; thence S74˚04’18”W, 1262.13’ to the intersection of the westerly right-of-way line of County YY and the east line of the west 114.00’ of the NE-NW of Section 3; being the point of beginning of this description; thence S81˚13’20”W, 338.58’; thence 219.33’ along the arc of a 50.00 foot radius curve, concave to the east, the chord of which bears N26˚53’27”E, and measures 81.24’; thence N81˚13’20”E, 291.21’, to the Westerly right-of-way line of County YY; thence S08˚46’39”E, 66.00’ along said Westerly right-of-way line, to the point of beginning.  Town of Greenfield.

Appearing in Favor: 

Eric Dummer, N5650 County Rd E, Bangor WI  54614.  This is a piece of property we recently purchased from a cousin of mine.  We rezoned a piece of his land - 12.5 acres; this was done two board meetings ago.  At the time we intended to have an easement that came out to County YY and then through the Town’s recommendation they will allow only one building permit per easement; so at that time we came up with a plan for a Town road that will be dedicated to the Town when completed.  This parcel of land is 3 acres which is under the 35 acre minimum, with that being said we need to rezone the parcel for this road. 

Question HANSON:  Where is Mr. Loging’s house in comparison to this?

Answer DUMMER:  Just to the south.

Question HANSON:  Will he still access his property off of his driveway?

Answer DUMMER:  Off his existing driveway yes.    

Question HANSON:  This will be to the north of his property?

Answer DUMMER:  Yes, north of his property.

Question RAUK:  This roadway is where you have it flagged up through the cornfield?

Answer DUMMER:  Yes.

Question RAUK:  What are you looking at, for controls and permissions for the creek to flow under, there’s a serious elevation change there from the water to where a reasonably level road would be?

Answer DUMMER:  We’ve been in contact with Carrie Olson from the DNR and we’re in the process of doing our flood study to determine what we need to do for drainage and run a bridge to get across the creek.

Question RAUK:  So that’s not decided yet?
Answer DUMMER:  Not completely decided yet, no.

Opposition:  None.

Correspondence:  Letter dated November 29, 2007 from Department of Natural Resources.  No objection to rezone of parcel, Chapter 30 permit required to construct the road crossing.  County Shoreland Zoning Ordinance will apply to construction within 300 feet of Tollefson Coulee Creek. 

Department Recommendation:  Approval – for public improvements.  Special Exception Permit required.

Motion Bina/Meyer to approve.  All ayes.

SPECIAL EXCEPTION PERMIT NO. 2007-10    Mark Koblitz, d/b/a Koblitz Enterprises LLC, N3308 Smith Valley Rd, La Crosse WI  54601.  Petition to disturb an area of 29,000 square feet by grading and filling an area for a new restaurant and parking lot at W7301 County Road Z on land zoned Commercial District B which lies within the Shoreland District of  Lake Onalaska on land described as:  Lot 1 and part of Lot 2 in Block 1 of Ma Gipeeaska Washonee Day Cho Chake Subdivision described in tax parcel 10-2056-0.  Town of Onalaska.

Appearing in Favor:

Mark Koblitz, N3308 Smith Valley Rd, La Crosse WI  54601.  What we are doing is there is a flat area there, that outlined area is roughly flat already.  The northwest corner is higher than the rest of that outlined area and we want to move some of that material from that corner and use it to level off the site mainly for the parking area and where the building is going.

Opposition:  None.

Correspondence:  Letter from Town of Onalaska dated December 3, 2007.  Town Board approved Special Exception on November 26, 2007.

Department Recommendation:  Approve with 8 conditions:

          1.   This permit is granted specifically for grading and filling an area of approximately

                29,000 square feet for construction of a new restaurant building and a 35-space  

                parking lot in accordance with plans received by the Zoning, Planning and Land

                Information Office dated October 10, 2007.

2.      The applicant is required to obtain an Erosion Control Permit from the La Crosse

      County Department of Land Conservation for this project.  All conditions of the

      Erosion Control Permit are made a part hereof.

3.      Personnel from the Zoning Department and the Department of Land Conservation

      shall be given access to the site during regular working hours for the purpose of       

      determining compliance with provisions of this permit.

4.      The smallest amount of bare ground shall be exposed for as short a time as possible.

5.      Temporary ground cover such as mulch or jute netting shall be used and permanent vegetative cover shall be established before the expiration date of this permit.

6.      Water runoff and pollutants are to be controlled so absolutely no pollutants enter Lake Onalaska from the disturbed area.

7.      Department of Natural Resources Waterway General Permit GP-WI-2007-0537BT is made a part of this permit and shall be maintained during the term of the project.

8.      This Permit expires July 31, 2008.

Motion Hanson/Keil to approve Special Exception with conditions as recommended – all ayes.

Motion Hanson/Keil to adjourn – all ayes.

Meeting adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned at 6:30 p.m.

The above minutes may be approved, amended, or corrected at the next Committee meeting.

Mike Weibel, Recorder