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Sheboygan council moves zoning boards in code amid public objections over data centers and administrative authority
Summary
The council adopted an ordinance relocating Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals language to Chapter 2 of the municipal code, a move staff described as organizational; residents urged delays, citing reduced transparency, possible consolidation of power in the city administrator and gaps on data-center regulation.
Sheboygan’s Common Council on Tuesday voted to relocate provisions relating to the Plan Commission and the Zoning Board of Appeals into Chapter 2 of the municipal code, a structural change council staff said is intended to make board information easier to find. The vote followed more than an hour of public comment in which residents urged greater transparency and asked the council to delay action on the broader zoning-code rewrite.
Supporters of moving the provisions said the change is limited in scope and does not remove statutory authority. City Attorney (unnamed in transcript) told the council the relocation “takes the provisions regarding Plan Commission and Zoning Board of Appeals” out of the zoning chapter and places them with other boards for ease of reading, and that the Plan Commission and ZBA “still retain the…
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