The Sawyer County Zoning Committee accepted a request from owners Troy and Vicki DeWitt to withdraw rezone application 25-008 for property in the Town of Hayward. The zoning administrator recommended accepting the withdrawal and not proceeding to a public hearing.

Staff advised the committee that under the county’s bylaws and the process as explained at the hearing, the filing-time restriction that otherwise can prevent refiling within one year requires a public hearing to be conducted; because the applicant withdrew prior to a public hearing, the county official explained the applicant could reapply before one year, provided they pay new application fees and start the process over.

Committee members voted to accept the withdrawal; the roll-call result recorded acceptance by a majority (motion carried 3–2). The Town of Hayward and town plan commission had earlier unanimously denied the rezone at the town level, and county staff noted that if the applicant submits the same request again the town’s previous denial makes a near-term repeat approval unlikely without substantive changes to the proposal.

No formal conditions or findings were adopted because the item was withdrawn and not heard on the merits.