ARENA PLAN COMMISSION

June 7, 2010

PRESENT: John Wright, Rod Anding, Dave Lucey, Bill Gauger, Cheryl Schmidt, KayDee Maxwell, Wayne Schutte

OTHERS: Dick & Mary Lockman, Ingmar Nelson, Tom Dechant

Meeting was called to order. Schutte motioned to approve the minutes from the May 3, 2010 meeting with corrections. Anding seconded, motion passed.

Tom Dechant - Tom has a driveway permit approved from the Township already. It was approved in November. He has a revision to it to try and flatten the driveway out. The new plan follows a ridge and disturbs less soil. The original plan goes up to a 9% grade and will erode more soil. Wright motioned to stick with option 1 (the original plan) unless Dechant can prove that the revised option uses less than 1 acres of crop land. Anding seconded, motion passed.

Ingmar Nelson - Ingmar gave the Plan Commission a letter with answers to the Town Board questions that they had at the last meeting. Lucey updated the Plan Commission about the last Town Board meeting discussion. The Town Board is worried about all of the buildings and people renting the cabins for months at a time instead of days or weeks. Wright doesn't have a problem with the AR1 zoning. If Ingmar doesn't stay in compliance with the zoning of RB1 then he loses his conditional uses. Ingmar would do RB1 without conditional uses. Schmidt said we cannot do that or his conditional uses are open. Anding and Schutte are okay with RB1, Schmidt is okay with RB1 but only a 3 month rental period max, and Wright wants AR1. Anding feels the cabins are in a part of the Township that fits in the comprehensive plan. Anding motioned to resubmit the motion from May's meeting to the Town Board with the change that there is a maximum of a 3 month rental period as a conditional use. Schutte seconded, motion passed.

The Plan Commission read the Letter from David Moore. They believe this has to deal with the property owners more than the Town. John Wright is going to have the residents sign the original driveway agreement.

Anding doesn't want the "the parcel is too small to farm so lets put a house there" statement brought up anymore. He doesn't believe that any parcel is too small. Crop land is crop land.

John Wright wants an ordinance developed that there is only 1 house per 30 acres if it pertains to a residence (over 600 sq. ft.), except for commercial property.

Anding motioned to adjourn. Schutte seconded, motion passed.