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Village board approves rezoning for two Sand Hill Meadow lots amid trustee objections
Summary
The Village Board approved an ordinance rezoning two parcels at Silver Spring Drive and Red Crown Lane to a PRD planned residential development with shoreland wetland designation; the plan proposes apartment buildings and drew objections from trustees who said the area should remain single-family.
The Village Board of Menomonee Falls approved an ordinance rezoning two lots in the Sand Hill Meadow subdivision, located at Silver Spring Drive and Red Crown Lane, from A-1 agricultural and PRD to PRD planned residential development with a shoreland-wetland designation.
Why it matters: the rezoning allows a developer's concept plan that shows multiple multiunit buildings on the two lots; the board's approval advances the property from an existing land-use designation toward a future general-development-plan submittal and possible building permits.
Planning staff presented the request and noted that this action was only a rezoning, not approval of a PRD general development plan. The plan commission recommended the rezoning on a 3-2 vote. PJ Burbach, the petitioner and a developer who said his company built the adjacent Sand Hill development, told the board, "we do a very high end first class quality job," and asked for the board's support.
During the public hearing and board discussion, trustees raised concerns about multifamily housing in that western area of the village and said the lots' location made single-family development preferable. One trustee said the planning commission recommendation had been close and that they believed the site should remain single-family. The petitioner said the immediate proposal was for apartments, not condominiums, but that market conditions could later affect product type.
The board voted to adopt the rezoning ordinance. The planning commission recommendation had been split (3-2). Transcript notes indicate at least one trustee opposed the ordinance at the board vote.
Ending: Rezoning clears the way for a future PRD general-development-plan submittal from the applicant; the board's approval does not itself authorize construction and leaves design details, unit counts and site plans to later approvals.
