SEWRPC community assistance efforts extend to the preparation, upon request, of county and local comprehensive plan elements as well as plan implementation ordinances addressing zoning, land division, and official mapping. This work also extends to hazard mitigation planning and local park and open space planning. This work seeks to integrate regional and local planning and helps implement regional plans.
Multi-Jurisdictional Comprehensive Planning Programs in Southeastern Wisconsin
With the enactment into law in 1999 of new State comprehensive planning legislation, popularly called “Smart Growth”, SEWRPC offered to work with each of the seven counties in the Region to produce county comprehensive plan documents. Six of the counties conducted multi-jurisdictional planning programs to produce a county comprehensive plan and companion local plans for participating cities, towns, and villages. Information on county comprehensive planning programs is provided below. Additional information related to comprehensive plans, including sample forms for plan amendments, is available on the Comprehensive Planning page. The comprehensive plan status in the region is summarized on this map.
• Kenosha County
Kenosha County and nine cities, towns, and villages were awarded a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Administration in March 2006 to prepare a multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan. SEWRPC assisted in developing the plan. The Kenosha County Board adopted the plan on April 20, 2010. The adopted plan is available here.
The Village of Silver Lake and Towns of Brighton, Bristol, Paris, and Somers have adopted the multi-jurisdictional plan document as their local comprehensive plan. The new Village of Bristol (incorporated in late 2009) joined the multi-jurisdictional partnership in January and has adopted the multi-jurisdictional plan as the Village comprehensive plan. The Towns of Salem and Wheatland, the Village of Pleasant Prairie, and the City of Kenosha have adopted separate comprehensive plans based on the multi-jurisdictional plan. More information is available on the Kenosha County website. For more information on this project, please contact:
Nancy M. Anderson, AICP
Chief Community Assistance Planner
262-547-6722 Ext. 212
nanderson@sewrpc.org
• Ozaukee County
Ozaukee County was awarded a State comprehensive planning grant in 2004. With the exception of the City of Cedarburg, all cities, towns, and villages in the County, including the Village of Newburg which straddles the Ozaukee County-Washington County line, participated in a
multi-jurisdictional planning program to develop a comprehensive plan for the County and each of the participating local governments. SEWRPC assisted in preparing the plans. The multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan was adopted by the Ozaukee County Board of Supervisors on April 2, 2008. All local plans were adopted by April 14, 2009. An amendment to the multi-jurisdictional plan to incorporate the local plans was approved by the Ozaukee County Board on May 6, 2009. The adopted County plan as amended in May 2009, is available here. Additional information about the plan is available on the Ozaukee County website. For more information on this project, please contact:
Benjamin R. McKay
Principal Planner
262-547-6722 Ext. 229
bmckay@sewrpc.org
• Racine County
Racine County and all 17 cities, towns, and villages were awarded a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Administration in March 2006 to prepare a multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan. The multi-jurisdictional plan was adopted by the Racine County Board on October 13, 2009. The multi-jurisdictional plan document has been adopted as the local comprehensive plan by 16 of the 17 participating communities. The adopted multi-jurisdictional plan is available here. The seventeenth community, the City of Racine, endorsed the multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan and adopted a city comprehensive plan based upon the multi-jurisdictional plan. The adopted City of Racine plan is available here. More information is available on the Racine County website. For more information on this project, please contact:
David A. Schilling
Principal Planner
262-547-6722 Ext. 277
dschilling@sewrpc.org
• Walworth County
Walworth County and 13 towns worked together on a multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan with assistance from SEWRPC. The plan was adopted by the Walworth County Board on November 10, 2009. Each participating town adopted the multi-jurisdictional plan document as the town plan prior to County Board adoption. The adopted multi-jurisdictional plan is available here. More information is available here. For more information on this project, please contact:
William J. Stauber
Chief Land Use Planner
262-547-6722 Ext. 279
wstauber@sewrpc.org
• Washington County
Washington County, 10 towns, and one village were awarded a comprehensive planning grant on March 4, 2005. SEWRPC and UW-Extension are also part of the planning process. The multi-jurisdictional comprehensive plan was adopted by the Washington County Board of Supervisors on April 15, 2008. The adopted County plan is available here. Local comprehensive plans have been adopted by the Town of Addison, Town of Barton, Town of Erin, Town of Farmington, Town of Hartford, Town of Kewaskum, Village of Kewaskum, Town of Polk, Town of Trenton, and Town of Wayne. The Town of Germantown has adopted the multi-jurisdictional plan document as the Town comprehensive plan. More information is available on the Washington County website. For more information on this project, please contact:
Nancy M. Anderson, AICP
Chief Community Assistance Planner
262-547-6722 Ext. 212
nanderson@sewrpc.org
• Waukesha County
The County comprehensive plan was adopted by the Waukesha County Board of Supervisors on February 24, 2009. More information is available on the Waukesha County website. For more information on this project, please contact:
Richard R. Kania, AICP, RLA
Principal Planner
262-547-6722 Ext 226
rkania@sewrpc.org
Hazard Mitigation Planning
SEWRPC provides assistance to counties and local governments in the preparation and updating of hazard mitigation plans. These plans fulfill requirements set forth by the Wisconsin Department of Military Affairs, Division of Emergency Management, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Through such planning, appropriate consideration is given to such hazards as flooding; lakeshore bluff and dam failure episodes; severe weather conditions, including wind storms, tornadoes, periods of extreme heat or cold, and winter storms; terrorism; civil disorder; urban fire or mass casualty; and hazardous material situations. SEWRPC has recently assisted the City of Milwaukee, Kenosha County, and Racine County on updates to their hazard mitigation plans. Reports and meeting materials relative to these three work efforts may be accessed on the links provided below: