Plan Commission finds 2025–29 CDBG consolidated plan and 2025 action plan consistent with comprehensive plan

The Oshkosh City Plan Commission on June 17 voted 8-0 to find that the proposed 2025–2029 Consolidated Plan and the 2025 Annual Action Plan for the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program are consistent with the city’s comprehensive plan and to recommend approval to the Common Council.

City planning staff told the commission the plan submission asks the commission to confirm consistency with the comprehensive plan and other official city maps; staff also presented proposed project allocations in the staff report. Staff said the city's estimated 2025 entitlement allocation is $822,000 and that, for this year, there are no confirmed federal cutbacks affecting the award. Staff noted that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) reporting system (IDIS) supplies much of the data used in the plan.

Plan Commission discussion included a question from a commissioner about whether the CDBG program is threatened by federal cutbacks; staff said not for this year but acknowledged future uncertainty. Another commissioner asked how the plan accounts for substandard housing conditions and whether a previously proposed rental inspection program — described during the hearing as having been removed by recent state legislation — affects the city’s ability to identify specific problem properties. Staff replied that more granular property-level data are not included in the HUD-supplied reporting extracts and that the IDIS system is the primary source for federal reporting.

No members of the public spoke during the item. The commission adopted staff findings and recommendations and recorded an 8-0 roll-call vote in favor of the motion. The Plan Commission's consistency finding and recommendation will proceed to the Common Council for final action and submission to HUD as required by the CDBG program.