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Commission to hold public hearings on ordinance changes required by state legislation, staff notes shooting-range provision

Brown County Planning Commission · July 28, 2026
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Summary

Staff distributed an ordinance packet with amendments required by recent state bills and noted the changes include provisions affecting shooting ranges; the commission agreed to schedule public hearings and circulate the packet before next meeting.

Staff presented an ordinance packet containing updates to the zoning ordinance required by recent state legislation and asked commission members to review the changes in advance of a public hearing.

"So this allows for shooting ranges," Staff member said while pointing to the packet that incorporated the state-driven changes. Commissioners discussed the statutory requirement to hold hearings at both the planning commission level and before the county commissioners and agreed to schedule a planning-commission public hearing as soon as staff posts the notice in the newspaper.

Members noted that some changes are ministerial and intended only to bring the county code into compliance with state law; staff will prepare materials, place the item on the next agenda for review, and publish the hearing notice for the subsequent meeting. The commission agreed to place the replat first on next month's docket and then proceed into the ordinance review and the fee schedule public hearing.