Herman Town Dodge County
City Zoning Code
City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XVI
Comprehensive Plan 1
§ 384-108 Plan Commission proceedings.
The Plan Commission, in order to ensure that the requirements of § 66.1001(4), Wis. Stats., are met, shall proceed as follows:
A.
Public participation verification. Prior to beginning work on a comprehensive plan, the Plan Commission shall verify that the Town Board has adopted written procedures designed to foster public participation in every stage of preparation of the comprehensive plan. These written procedures shall include open discussion, communication programs, information services and noticed public meetings. These written procedures shall further provide for wide distribution of proposed, alternative or amended elements of a comprehensive plan and shall provide an opportunity for written comments to be submitted by members of the public to the Town Board and for the Town Board to respond to such written comments.
B.
Resolution. The Plan Commission, under § 66.1001(4)(b), Wis. Stats., shall recommend its proposed comprehensive plan or amendment to the Town Board by adopting a resolution by a majority vote of the entire Plan Commission. The vote shall be recorded in the minutes of the Plan Commission. The resolution shall refer to maps and other descriptive materials that relate to one or more elements of the comprehensive plan. The resolution adopting a comprehensive plan shall further recite that the requirements of the comprehensive planning law have been met, under § 66.1001, Wis. Stats., namely that:
(1)
The Town Board adopted written procedures to foster public participation and that such procedures allowed public participation at each stage of preparing the comprehensive plan;
(2)
The plan contains the nine specified elements and meets the requirements of those elements;
(3)
The (specified) maps and (specified) other descriptive materials relate to the plan;
(4)
The plan has been adopted by a majority vote of the entire Plan Commission, which the Clerk or Secretary is directed to record in the minutes; and
C.
Transmittal. One copy of the comprehensive plan or amendment adopted by the Plan Commission for recommendation to the Town Board shall be sent to:
(1)
Every governmental body that is located in whole or in part within the boundaries of the Town, including any school district, Town sanitary district, public inland lake protection and rehabilitation district or other special district.
(2)
The clerk of every city, village, town, county and regional planning commission that is adjacent to the Town.
(3)
The Wisconsin Land Council.
(4)
After September 1, 2003, the Department of Administration.
(5)
The regional planning commission in which the Town is located.
(6)
The public library that serves the area in which the Town is located.