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Germantown commission allows AppleWorks Winery expanded uses but keeps transfer review, drops mandatory sound monitor
Summary
The Germantown Plan Commission approved most proposed amendments to AppleWorks Winery’s conditional use permit — including expanded hours, indoor music changes, sale of hard liquor, and a morning coffee shop — while keeping a revised transferability review and removing the mandatory, always‑on sound monitoring requirement.
The Village of Germantown Plan Commission on March 9 approved several amendments to the conditional use permit for AppleWorks Winery, allowing expanded hours, additional indoor music time, the sale of hard liquor subject to state licensing, and a new morning coffee shop, while retaining a revised transferability condition and dropping a mandatory sound‑monitoring requirement.
Staff presented the history of the AppleWorks conditional use permit (originally approved in 2013 and amended in 2022) and recommended approving four of six proposed amendments with modified language. The changes the commission approved allow expanded hours of operation and indoor music, permit sale and dispensing of hard liquor subject to Wisconsin Department of Revenue licensing requirements, and add a coffee shop use from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. daily. Staff proposed, and the commission debated, revised language on CUP transferability that would require reporting any change of operator to community development and give staff the…
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