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Commission moves to use Monroe County ordinance as template while debating CSM thresholds and municipal review
Summary
Commissioners discussed whether to set goals before drafting a county ordinance or to review other counties' ordinances first. They debated minimum acreage that would require a Certified Survey Map (CSM), items to require in a CSM, and whether local municipalities should be included in preliminary plan reviews; the panel agreed to start from Monroe County's ordinance and edit it.
At the Nov. 12 meeting, Vernon County Planning Commission members debated two approaches to creating county ordinances: establish policy goals first or review existing ordinances from other counties to inform goal-setting. Commissioners weighed the pros and cons of both approaches and discussed concrete drafting elements they expect to resolve.
Discussion focused on technical items for a subdivision ordinance: lot-size triggers for requiring a Certified Survey Map (CSM), the specific items that should be required within a CSM, whether to distinguish between a subdivision and a land division, who should perform preliminary plan review and whether local municipalities should be included, and the set of definitions the ordinance should contain. The commission agreed that the Monroe County ordinance will serve as the template and that members would later make changes and edits to that draft.
