Committee advances 2024 and 2025 comprehensive-plan annual reports to county board

The Planning, Development & Extension Education Committee voted to remove two draft annual reports for the Kenosha County multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan from the table and approved both the 2024 and 2025 drafts for onward transmission.

Luke Atchalk, planning and development staff, read the items into the record and described the reports as annual summaries of comprehensive-plan changes made by municipalities across the county. Atchalk said the 2024 report had not yet reached the committee in prior meetings and noted that county-board approval is required under state planning laws.

Committee members discussed the reports briefly and noted public interest in the maps showing land-use changes. A motion to remove item 4 (2024 report) from the table was made and carried; the committee then approved the 2024 report as written. The same procedure followed for item 5 (2025 report): the committee removed item 5 from the table, staff read the 2025 draft into the record, and the committee voted to approve it. Governance and committee members recorded 'aye' votes and the motions passed; individual mover and seconder names are not consistently identified in the recorded segments.

Committee members also noted an extension-education report had been emailed to members earlier in the week summarizing recent activities. Staff previewed the August meeting agenda, saying the office received applications for two separate projects — each with three associated items, for a total of six items — involving land-use plan changes and land divisions.

What happens next: staff said the annual reports will be transmitted to the county board for formal approval and are expected to be posted on the county website after adoption. The extension-education email will serve as the committee briefing on recent extension activities.