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Sustainability committee pushes to protect residents' rights to gardens, clotheslines and rooftop solar in new developments
Summary
Committee members want the village to encourage garden spaces in new residential subdivisions and to prevent developers or HOAs from restricting clotheslines, gardens and solar panels. They discussed options ranging from Plan Commission advocacy to ordinance amendments.
The Village of Cross Plains Sustainability Committee discussed several ways to ensure new developments allow or encourage resident gardens, outdoor clotheslines and rooftop solar.
Members said the primary avenues are (1) advising the Plan Commission when preliminary plats and developer agreements are reviewed and (2) pursuing ordinance changes to make certain uses permitted by right so developers or homeowners associations cannot prohibit them.
"We want people to be allowed to have garden space, like, not disallowed," said…
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