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Marquette County adopts dozens of zoning and comprehensive-plan amendments across towns
Summary
Throughout 2024 the board adopted numerous zoning-map changes and comprehensive-plan amendments affecting multiple towns (Montello, Mecan, Montello, Newton, Moundville, Packwaukee, Westfield, Douglas and others), converting parcels among Resource Protection, Agriculture, Residential and Farmland Preservation overlays after Planning & Zoning hearings.
Over the 2024 calendar year the Marquette County Board of Supervisors adopted a large set of zoning and comprehensive-plan amendments affecting many towns across the county.
Beginning with multiple Montello-area rezonings adopted in February (Resolutions 3–5) and continuing through the year, the Planning & Zoning Committee held public hearings and recommended map changes that the full board approved. The amendments rezoned parcels among Resource Protection (RP), Prime Agriculture (AG-1), General Agriculture (AG-2), Agriculture Residential (AG-3) and applied Farmland Preservation Overlay designations in locations including the Towns of Montello, Mecan, Oxford, Moundville, Newton, Packwaukee, Westfield and Douglas.
The board also adopted Chapter 70 amendments in May (Resolution 18-2024) to align local shoreland and impervious-surface definitions with Wisconsin Administrative Code NR115 and updated access/viewing corridor and fence language. On Oct. 15 Resolution 38-2024 added more acreage in the Town of Douglas to Farmland Preservation Area on the county Planned Land Use map.
Most zoning items were introduced by Planning & Zoning Committee members or county supervisors representing the affected towns; the resolutions routinely cited compliance with the county comprehensive plan, findings that the land is better suited for the requested use and that the rezoning would not substantially impair agricultural uses on surrounding parcels. The board recorded each amendment as its own resolution and placed associated planned-land-use map changes on file for public inspection.
Because many of these were individual map amendments, the county maintained each as separate resolutions (e.g., Res. 3-2024 through Res. 16-2024, Res. 18-2024, Res. 19-2024, Res. 20-2024, Res. 22-2024, Res. 25-2024, Res. 29-2024, Res. 31-2024, Res. 35-2024, Res. 36-2024, Res. 43-2024 through Res. 46-2024). The board’s minutes and the county’s online ordinance and planning documents contain the full legal descriptions and maps for each amendment.
