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Hawks View preliminary plat tabled as developer, staff work to resolve 30-inch sewer easement
Summary
The Planning Commission tabled the Hawks View preliminary plat after the developer raised objections to a staff condition requiring an easement for a future 30-inch gravity sewer (condition 15); commissioners also discussed modifying sidewalk requirements to one side of the main road.
The Menomonee Falls Planning Commission on Aug. 5 tabled the Hawks View preliminary plat to give the applicant and village engineering time to resolve a utilities easement issue and finalize sidewalk language.
Planner Amy Bennett said the preliminary plat covers a 60-acre parcel with a proposal for 80 single-family lots and that staff recommended approval with 45 village conditions, 12 Waukesha County conditions and any Department of Administration requirements. Developer Kevin Anderson (Newman Developments) expressed concern about staff condition 15, which requires an easement and route for construction of a future 30-inch gravity sewer through the parcel; he said no feasible location had been identified on the plat because of high-tension power lines and existing easements and asked that the issue be worked out with engineering before final approval.
Commissioners also debated a sidewalk condition (item 35) that would require sidewalks on both sides of the main east–west road; the developer and several commissioners supported a one-sided requirement for the interior streets and one side of the main road to provide buyer choice and reduce tree impacts. After extended discussion, the commission moved to table the preliminary plat and allow the applicant and engineering to work on condition 15 and the sidewalk language; staff will return with revised condition language and engineering analysis.
