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Marathon County ERC approves three rezonings, a subdivision plat and updates to town ordinances and fees
Summary
The Marathon County Environmental Resources Committee on Feb. 4 recommended approval of three rezones, approved preliminary and final plats for Green Tree Meadows, forwarded a town zoning rewrite to the county board and updated fees; public hearings drew no public testimony for the rezones.
The Marathon County Environmental Resources Committee voted Feb. 4 to recommend approval of three zoning map changes, approve a subdivision plat, forward a town zoning rewrite to the county board and adopt changes to the county zoning fee schedule.
The committee, chaired by Longenhahn, conducted public hearings on three rezone petitions and heard staff recommendations before voting. Garrett, a CPZ staff member who presented the three rezone staff reports, said each petition met rezoning criteria and all three town boards recommended approval. No members of the public testified at the hearings.
Staff described the three petitions as follows: Tim Vreeland filed for a rezone on behalf of Tim Brubaker to change a parcel in the Town of Frankfort from RR (rural residential) to RE (rural estate); David J. Falkowski Sr. filed for Roam Properties LLC to rezone land in the Town of McMillan from RR to C (commercial); and David and Brenda (last name redacted in the record) requested rezoning from UR and RR to RE in the Town of Alderon. For each petition CPZ staff recommended forwarding approval to the Marathon County Board of Supervisors, and the committee approved all three by voice vote following motions from supervisors and seconds recorded in the minutes.
The committee also approved the preliminary and final plats for Green Tree Meadows (the limited portion under Marathon County jurisdiction is a narrow strip of outlots in the northwestern portion of the plat). Garrett said the City of Wausau and the Town of Satine had approved the plat and the county’s review was limited to the small portion within the town. The committee approved both preliminary and final plats in separate motions.
Other formal actions included the committee’s approval to forward the Town of Weston’s repeal and recreation of Chapter 94 (town zoning) to the county board after staff review; approval of updates to the county zoning fee schedule to avoid double-charging large assemblies applicants (per Chapter 12.04 assemblies ordinance); and conditional approval of the Town of Wean comprehensive plan update, with the condition that town supervisor signatures be provided by the next County Board session.
Votes were taken as voice votes and recorded as “motion carries” in the meeting minutes; the record does not include a roll-call tally for most items. Where motions and seconds were recorded, the minutes list the mover and seconder (for example: the Brubaker rezone motion was made by Supervisor Drayback and seconded by Supervisor Seefeldt). Each rezoning now proceeds to the Marathon County Board of Supervisors for final action where required by statute.
The committee closed the meeting after items of business and scheduled its next meeting for March 4, 2025.
Notes: All actions and quotations reflect items as recorded in the February 4, 2025 ERC meeting transcript and staff reports; public testimony on the rezones was recorded as none present for each item.
