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What is the most important
issue in La Crosse County?
- Prohibit any new
billboards
- Land use,
transportation and keeping people to the plan
- Property rights
of property owners
- How to minimize
present demand for more and more roads plus concrete
- How to resolve
differences between present county zoning regulations as town plans
- Transportation
- Land use
- Cooperation
between municipalities
- Plan that crosses
municipality lines
- Consistency
- Implement the
plan
- Transportation
- Open space
preservation
- Public interest
vs. private rights
- Protect the
natural resources and scenic beauty of our area by applying land use
decisions to watershed areas and bluff lands (i.e. recognize the
geography of our area our greatest asset) and look to enhance this
asset
- Fiscal impact and
traffic impact analyses should be done before re-zoning is granted
- Environmental
assessment—review plan for activity before re-zoning and/or
construction permits are allowed—our natural resources must be
protected—in most towns groundwater provides drinking water
- Preserve our
local bluffs, coulees and natural water ways
- Control growth in
a manner which allows for best use of land/farmland
- Plan w/school use
ability to handle the growth
- Transportation
and land use
- North/South
corridor
- County vs.
municipal policing/firefighting
- Mall traffic
- Aging population
and the services needed
- Forcing
intergovernmental cooperation and knock down the many mini empires
- Land use and
zoning
- Transportation –
traffic flow
- Save the marsh
- Lack of job
creation and industry. I do not see where the town of Onalaska is
making an attempt to keep people working in the town. There appears
to be the idea that many individuals are not able to make decision
on their own and someone needs to do that for them.
- It seems that
when it comes to development, people think it is an infinite
process, when it can’t be. Maybe we need to think about improving
what exist instead of just planning on developing more. There is a
limit to everything, but often we act as if there is none.
- Zoning changes
that allow communities to be in control of their plan
- Extraterritorial
powers—how can we be in control of our community of other shave
control of our land use.
- Balance growth of
development with need to preserve rural and agricultural needs.
People like to fish, hunt, and have open/unoccupied spaces nearby.
No, not just the river, SWA’s, farms, and hills. The current trend
is to develop any place you can get an ATM. Claims of balance aren’t
true.
- Land use and
zoning
- Transportation
corridor
- Use value
taxation
- Land use and
economic development
- Maintaining
property rights
- Staying flexible
- Land use
decisions that satisfy the majority of the township population—“yes”
to some development “no” to other development
- Establish
boundaries
- Share information
What are the most
important parts of the planning process?
- The guiding elements
should be the innate features that warrant preservation. Preserve
important spaces and develop the less valuable spaces (as opposed to
letting development lead, and saving the left over remnants as “open
space”).
- Try to get all the
towns, cities and villages plan’s to agree on land use
- Make sure towns are
involved in land use process
- How to provide enough
preliminary info to town residents so that they will want to participate
in the meetings and be able to understand options
- Intergovernmental
cooperation as a plan element
- Maintain an open
venue for exchange of ideas
- Obtaining good data –
getting as much public input as possible
- Getting various
municipalities to work together
- Adequate funding
- How do you prevent a
few people on the board from dictating the outcome of plan, as hoped in
the town of Onalaska
- Update county zoning
ordinances to allow coulee visions concepts and conservation measures to
be implemented
- Refer to
comprehensive plans that have already been completed by city of LaCrosse,
Onalaska, Village of Holmen and town of Onalaska and use these as the
basis for the county plan in these areas (i.e. use these plans unless
there are conflicts between those completed plans)
- Be accountable to the
public and preserve the high quality of life for those who have invested
in this community
- Good notification to
the public of needed input, call it advertising the meetings
- Education of why
planning is important to all who live in the county and surrounding
communities
- Community residents
participating with understanding of the needs and process
- Understand that
people come from varied backgrounds and education levels… respect all
input
- Involvement of the
towns in development of plans for those areas – county should follow
towns plans and not their own interests
- In my opinion, each
municipality should finish their plan first and then the county can work
on integrating them
- Land use
identification and planning process is the most important issue – as the
metro area grows there will be conflicts and they need to be resolved
peacefully
- Make information more
accessible – such as internet
- Land use and zoning
to keep ag land
- Keep development near
or next to village and city borders
- Proper planning for
land use – zoning
- On all reviews of the
planning process, 3 minute comments in attempt to cover what took the
administrators 18 hours or more to accomplish – also economics of the
plan on communities
- This was obviously
started in 1999 by a group with and agenda to control – how then would
this be a common sense way to come with a solution for everyone
- This area got to
their point with hard work and foresight
- 30 years ago this was
not an issue because of all the farm land – do we have equal
representation?
- La Crosse County
needs to discuss improving quality; and not just focus on quantity (of
development)
- Determine communities
to be involved with plan
- What common
denominator will enable communities to work together?
- Allow municipalities
to remain individuals with out larger communities dominating the plan
- Flexibility in
support - wide mix of community types. Most have resources; we
don’t—most have lots of involved people; our people live in our town so
they don’t have to fool with government stuff.
- Need to help meet
minimal requirements w/minimal resources
- As a committee how,
do we ask the township residents the type of questions which will give
thought invoking answers?
- Implementation and
how to amend the individual plans and co-plans
- Transportation
- Stay away from
control
- Public input the most
important part of the planning process
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