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Vernon County committee to model comprehensive zoning ordinance on neighboring counties
Summary
Committee members agreed to evaluate model zoning ordinances from Richland, Grant, La Crosse and Monroe counties as templates for Vernon County's comprehensive zoning rewrite; staff will circulate materials and the commission will review sections before the next meeting.
Committee members spent the meeting reviewing table-of-contents examples from neighboring counties to organize a comprehensive county zoning ordinance. Several members recommended starting with the more detailed templates (Richland and Grant) and removing sections that do not apply, rather than writing a full ordinance from scratch.
Members discussed necessary sections — general provisions, district definitions, board of adjustment and appeals processes, land-division rules, and fees — and agreed staff should circulate the Richland/Grant examples for members to mark up. The committee also discussed how to label tribal trust land in mapping tools (suggestions included 'Ho-Chunk land' or 'federal land') so that map readers immediately know where the county has limited authority.
Staff and members said they will meet again next month to choose a base template and begin drafting district definitions; the item remains on the agenda for August.
