Muskego committee votes down motion tied to Gulfview Estates ditch waiver

The Muskego City Public Works and Safety Committee took a roll-call vote Nov. 3 on a motion related to Gulfview Estates' request to use a rural road cross section (ditches) instead of the city's typical curb-and-gutter. The motion, which put reconsideration of the prior waiver back on the floor, failed on a 0-3 roll-call vote.

Director Krager, the city planning/engineering representative, told the committee that the area planned for Gulfview Estates is surrounded by subdivisions built with curb and gutter and storm sewer and that those conditions and lot patterns support an urban cross section. "If you look at all the subdivisions in that area, everything that's pink is curb and gutter," Director Krager said, explaining that curb-and-gutter sections…