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Planning and Zoning chair Charles Grund reviews 2025 cases, flags code updates
Summary
At the Jan. 26 Village of Brookfield Committee of the Whole, Planning and Zoning Commissioner Charles Grund summarized the commission’s 2025 work: 19 cases including garage and sign variations, parking reductions, five special uses, three text amendments (including state-driven EV charging requirements) and an initial zoning code review.
Charles Grund, chair of the Village of Brookfield Planning and Zoning Commission, told the Committee of the Whole on Jan. 26 that the commission handled 19 cases during 2025 and began work on a broader zoning-code update.
“I'm not gonna go over every single case,” Grund said, describing the presentation as a high-level recap. He said the commission approved five garage-variation requests, two sign-variation requests (noting Bill's Place Express was approved in one meeting while Castle Motors required three), three parking-variance requests that reduced the number of required spaces, and…
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