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Plan Commission recommends rezoning and preliminary plat for Winterberry Reserve, approving mixed-size single-family subdivision
Summary
The commission recommended rezoning to RS-3 with a PUD overlay and approved a preliminary plat for Winterberry Reserve, a proposed 79-lot single-family subdivision with a private alley and carriage-lane product; the commission set conditions on lot sizes, setbacks, no front aprons, HOA maintenance and lighting.
The Waukesha City Plan Commission on Feb. 26 recommended that the Common Council approve rezoning and a planned unit development overlay for Winterberry Reserve, a proposed single-family subdivision north of Summit Avenue east of Meadowbrook Apartments. The commission also approved the subdivisions preliminary plat.
The proposal revises an earlier 54-lot plan to add smaller "carriage-lane" lots in an interior block while retaining larger perimeter lots adjacent to existing single-family neighborhoods. Staff described the rezoning request as a change from straight RS-3 single-family zoning to RS-3 with a PUD overlay to permit lots as small as roughly 4,520 square feet and minimum lot widths of about 40 feet for interior parcels. "To allow those smaller lots, we'll have to go to a PUD that will need to be included," said Doug, planning staff member.
Why it matters: Staff said the change responds to…
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