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Town of Townsend approves land division and rezone, appoints election workers and denies two waiver requests
Summary
The Town of Townsend board approved a land division and rezoning for Maass parcels, denied an 8-foot road-dedication waiver and a request to place a 53-year-old mobile home, and appointed 13 election workers for 2026–2028 during its Dec. 8 meeting.
The Town of Townsend board on Dec. 8 approved a proposed division of a 2.51-acre Maass parcel into two lots and rezoned the resulting lots from Rural Residential (RR) to Residential Single Family (R-1), following a Planning & Zoning committee recommendation.
Planning & Zoning Chair Dan DeMoulin explained the proposal includes correcting a recording error on a strip labeled Parcel A by deed adjustment; if approved the parcel split would produce lots of about 1.242 and 1.230 acres. The board accepted the division and rezoning by motion.
The board also denied a requested waiver of an 8-foot road-dedication associated with the division. County standard calls for additional frontage where town roads are not a three-rod road; N. Wapota Drive was cited at 50 feet wide, and the committee recommended denying the waiver. Chair Monica Zeller moved to deny the waiver; the motion was seconded and adopted.
Separately, the board denied a request from Dennis Hotchkiss to place a 53-year-old, 12-by-60-foot mobile home on a Meadow Parkway/Mockingbird Lane lot, based on current ordinance; the Planning & Zoning committee had recommended denial and the board adopted that recommendation.
Clerk Linda Ziegler presented a slate of 13 election workers for 2026–2028 (T. Linssen, T. Heyrman, L. Duca, A. Szyszkiewicz, R. Kroll, S. Wagner, J. Fellows, V. Beyer, W. Laste, B. VanOss, P. VanOss, R. Wittman and S. Christianson). The board approved appointing all 13 workers.
Other routine actions approved at the meeting included adoption of the agenda and acceptance of the Nov. 11, 2025 minutes, and acceptance of the treasurer’s profit-and-loss report and payment of bills.
The meeting record shows motions were made and seconded for each action and marked as adopted; no roll-call tallies were recorded in the minutes provided. The board adjourned at 6:50 p.m.
