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Board creates community facility zoning district, approves technical fixes to land‑use table and setbacks
Summary
The Board of Trustees approved an ordinance amendment creating a community facility zoning district and made several technical corrections to the land‑use table and setback language, including changing an indoor‑institutional use to conditional and correcting 'maximum' to 'minimum' pavement setback language.
The Village of Cross Plains Board of Trustees voted on June 23 to approve zoning ordinance amendments that create a new community facility zoning district and adjust the land‑use table in section 84.54 of the code.
Trustees approved the new district after plan commission review, with two technical amendments proposed and adopted in the meeting. Trustee Michael identified an apparent drafting error in the land‑use chart: indoor institutional uses were listed as permitted in the community‑mixed‑use column but should be conditional uses. The board amended the table to show indoor institutional uses as conditional in community mixed use.
Board members also corrected language under density, intensity and bulk regulations: two entries labeled “maximum front and street side setback” and “maximum side setback” on page 37 should read “minimum.” Trustees made that technical edit and adopted the ordinance as amended.
Members raised one policy question about the minimum pavement setbacks specified for community facility uses (draft language showed 2 feet from the side and 2 feet from right‑of‑way or rear while other districts use larger setbacks). Staff explained the community facility standards were intentionally more liberal to allow flexibility for a range of public uses. A motion to change those pavement setbacks to match other districts failed for lack of a second.
Why it matters: the new community facility district standardizes how public buildings (village hall, libraries, community centers, similar uses) are listed in the land‑use table and clarifies administrative rules for setbacks and conditional uses. The changes will affect how future public facilities are reviewed and permitted.
Next steps: staff will file the ordinance amendments and apply the new zoning rules as they appear on future map amendments and development proposals.
