Community Development Impact July 2023

  • A town clerk and plan commission, as well as the attorney representing a landowner, asked for Kevin’s interpretation of local land division and zoning regulations, and also guidance on how to best regulate a communications tower to ensure it was in the correct zoning district and could meet minimum lot size and setback standards. The back-and-forth discussion included numerous emails, a phone call, and a face-to-face meeting.
  • Sheboygan County and Bay-Lake Regional Planning Commission asked Kevin to distribute and tabulate an opinion survey to gauge the transportation needs of the approximately 30,500 rural households outside the City of Sheboygan’s transit service area. Kevin designed a random sampling process that ultimately ensured a margin of error of +/- 6% without having to contact all 30,500 households. The survey findings will help guide recommendations from Bay-Lake for the best types of transit service to areas outside the City of Sheboygan, as well as potential fare structures, hours of operation, and frequency of service.
  • Kevin worked with a town plan commission to draft three zoning ordinance revisions: 1) a method for calculating the width of irregularly shaped lots, 2) a clarification on how conditional use permits are approved, and 3) a more reasonable size limit for new structures in the town’s agritourism district.
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