Richland County approves several rezoning requests, affirms town zoning action in Ithaca

The Richland County Board adopted a series of zoning ordinance amendments on July 15 that reclassified several parcels across the county. The actions included rezoning parcels in the towns of Ridgewood, Richwood, Dayton and Westford to accommodate residential lots or to add land to existing agricultural operations.

Specific actions recorded in the meeting included ordinances numbered in the 25-13 through 25-16 range (amendments 624 through 627) that moved parcels of sizes ranging from roughly 0.6 acres to 6.9 acres out of agricultural preservation or residential districts into other districts to permit family transfers, house sales or to consolidate parcels with adjacent farm property. Supervisors discussed that some parcels were being partitioned off to allow a home sale while the remainder of the land remains in farm use; others were reclassified to add a small nonfarm processing facility to an existing farm operation.

The board also adopted Resolution 25-51, which formally approved the Town of Ithaca's rezoning of a 10.9-acre parcel from the Farmland Preservation District to the agricultural-residential district under Wisconsin Statute 60.623. County staff said the action was a formality following town approval; a county official from Ithaca attended to explain the partitioning that would allow a homeowner to sell the house while keeping the remaining farmland.

Each ordinance was introduced by the natural resources standing committee and approved by voice vote at the meeting. No appeals or formal denials were recorded in the meeting transcript; a report on petitions recommended for denial was noted as "not at this time."