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Shorewood Plan Commission endorses 2025 priorities: housing opportunities, home occupations, tenant notice
Summary
The Shorewood Plan Commission approved a three-item prioritized list of future initiatives — increasing housing opportunities, updating home-occupation rules, and reviewing tenant notice procedures — and will submit the list to the Village Board for consideration.
The Shorewood Plan Commission voted to endorse a set of future initiatives to send to the Village Board, prioritizing increased housing opportunities, updates to home-occupation regulations, and consideration of tenant notice procedures.
Planning staff told the commission that housing opportunities — which could include discussion of accessory dwelling units and co-housing — has been a longstanding top priority and is expected to be the commission’s primary next focus once the village’s bike and pedestrian plan is completed in February. Staff said the commission previously led the commercial zoning update and that the bike-ped plan’s completion will free staff capacity to pursue housing-related code changes.
“ This is what I would submit in this priority order that we would work on housing opportunities first, home occupations, and then, the tenant notice,” Planning staff said.
Commissioners discussed the second and third priorities. Planning staff noted that the village’s geographic information system does not store unit numbers for multiunit buildings, which means adding tenant notice requirements would require backend system work to capture unit-level addresses. “ Our GIS system does not have the capability of, easily switching that over to tenants. ... We have the main property address, but if you live in an apartment, for example, we don't have units, you know, 1 through 40 in there,” Planning staff said.
A commissioner said they approve of the priorities. The commission formally moved to approve the prioritized list for submission to the Village Board; the motion carried. The Village Board’s Community and Business Relations Committee is scheduled to review the commission’s proposed initiatives on Feb. 3 as part of the board’s spring consideration of committee priorities.
Staff indicated that as the commission works through the year it can add items to future submissions, and that an introductory discussion on housing opportunities will follow the bike-ped plan’s completion.
