Kenosha County committee approves appointments, land‑use changes and floodplain update

Kenosha County’s Land and Water Conservation Committee voted unanimously on several appointments and multiple land‑use items during its regular meeting.

The committee approved two appointments to county boards, accepted a withdrawal of an application, and recommended three related land‑use actions for a property in the Town of Paris: an amendment to the county comprehensive plan map, a rezoning, and a certified survey map. The committee also approved a text change to the county’s floodplain ordinance to reference a FEMA letter of map revision for the South Branch of the Pipe River; the county staff said the FEMA action becomes effective in July.

The most immediately consequential votes involved a request by the Marilyn M. Zirbel Revocable Trust to split a five‑acre parcel in the Town of Paris. Staff described three linked items — a comprehensive plan map amendment (from mixed‑use to rural density residential), a rezoning to add an R‑1 rural residential district with a planned unit development overlay, and a certified survey map to create the parcel — and the committee approved all three, subject to…