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Dunn County panel presses planners for clearer priorities, groundwater protections in comprehensive plan review
Summary
At a Dec. 3 meeting, Dunn County planners presented draft transportation and economic development chapters and engagement results (538 public respondents; 710 farmland respondents). Supervisors pressed for prioritized actions, named leads, implementation timelines, and explicit groundwater protections, and staff scheduled a Water & Natural Resources focus group for Dec. 16.
Dunn County’s Planning, Resource and Development Committee spent much of its Dec. 3 meeting pressing staff and the Regional Planning Commission to make the countywide comprehensive plan easier to use and to add clearer safeguards for groundwater.
Susan Badke of the Regional Planning Commission told the committee the update builds on the 2009 plan (revised 2016) and reported outreach results: 538 respondents to the general public survey and 710 responses to the mailed farmland owner survey. She described upcoming and completed focus groups and said draft chapters on transportation and economic development are being refined.
Public commenter Sarah Witter of Menominee urged the committee to fold the county’s separate sustainability plan into the comprehensive plan and to “incorporate those items into the comprehensive plan” so sustainability goals are active and measurable, rather than…
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