Elkhart Lake rushes to meet Smart Growth deadline
by Emmitt B. Feldner of the Review staff
ELKHART LAKE — The clock is ticking down to the final minutes, but the village will have its new zoning map done in time.
Village President Alan Rudnick gave the Village Board that assurance at their meeting Wednesday.
“We’re still hung up on the residential conservancy district, but we’re going to finish it up at our next meeting,” Rudnick, who chairs the Planning Commission, told trustees.
The village’s Smart Growth master plan is also nearing completion, Trustee Rola Ann Klahn reported, but it is awaiting completion of the zoning map before it can be adopted.
The rough draft of the plan has been sent to the county’s Planning and Resources Department for approval, Klahn added.
“We need to get the Smart Growth plan done,” Rudnick noted. “The ramification for not filing (the plan) is that all our zoning ordinances would be null and void.”
“Any developer who would come in in that time would have no rules they would have to follow,” Village Clerk/Treasurer Jeanette Moioffer added. The plan must be completed and filed by the year 2010 under state law.
Trustee Yvonne Landgraf reported that the Administration and Finance Committee will be meeting with department heads prior to submitting a proposed 2010 village budget next month.
“We realize we have some considerable budget cuts to make,” Landgraf noted.
