Assembly

Assembly
Record of Committee Proceedings

Committee on Land Use

Assembly Bill 810

Relating to: requiring a court to award litigation expenses in certain appeals of zoning decisions.

By Representatives Albers, Gronemus, Jensen, Sykora, Seratti, Green, Musser, Ward, Spillner, Brandemuehl, Johnsrud, Schafer, Hahn, Gunderson, Olsen, Harsdorf, Otte, Freese and Skindrud; cosponsored by Senators Welch, Drzewiecki and Schultz.

February 19, 1998 Referred to committee on Land Use.

February 26, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD

Present: (5) Representatives Powers, Ainsworth, Owens, Bock and Steinbrink.

Absent: (0) None.

Appearances for

· Representative Sheryl Albers, Author

· Bob Bowman, Cross Plains

· Byron Hawkins, Lake States Lumber Assn., Bangor

Appearances against

· JoAnne Kloppenburg representing Attorney General James Doyle

· James W. Conway, City of Kenosha

Appearances for Information Only

· None.

Registrations for

· Alan Russell, Sr., Private Land Owners of WI, Prairie du Chien

· Matt Moroney, Metropolitan Builders Assn., Milwaukee

· Tom Talbot, Lake States Lumber Assn., Portage

· Alan Hastreiter, Wausau

· Bill Weitzel, Baraboo

· Armin Reichow, Juneau

· Roger Cliff, WI Farm Bureau, Madison

· Michael Theo, WI Realtors Assn., Madison

· Senator Gary Drzewiecki, Co-Sponsor

· Terry Peters, Mellen

· Earl Ellickson, Cambridge

· Richard Smith, Wales

· Nadine Bailey, Timber Producers Assn., Rhinelander

· Alice O'Connor, Lake States Lumber Assn./Timber Producers Assn., Madison

· Senator Robert Welch, Co-Sponsor

· Russ Weisensel, WI Agribusiness Council, Madison

· Representative Mark Green, Co-Sponsor

· Representative Joan Spillner, Co-Sponsor

· Jerry Deschane, WI Builders Assn., Madison

· Dean Pelkey, Lake States Resource Alliance, Tomahawk

Registrations against

· Ann Jablonski, League of WI Municipalities, Madison

· Ed Huck, WI Alliance of Cities, Madison

· Frances Locke, WI Audubon Council, Madison

· Dan Thompson, League of WI Municipalities, Madison

· William P. O'Connor, WI Assn. of Lakes, Madison

· David Krahn, Waukesha County

· Randall J. Radtke, League of WI Municipalities, Lake Mills

· Steve Jacquart, City of Milwaukee

· Rick Stadelman, WI Towns Assn., Shawano

· Kathy Markeland, WI Counties Assn., Monona

· Dan Wisniewski representing Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk

· Jim O'Keefe, City of Madison

· Amy Kester, City of Menasha

· Elmer A. Goetsch, WI Assn. of Lakes, Three Lakes

· Richard Yde, City of West Bend

· Dave Cieslewicz, 1,000 Friends of WI, Madison

· Lawrence Classen, WI Environmental Decade, Madison

· Michael Stapleton, WI County Code Administrators, Pardeeville

· Caryl Terrell, Sierra Club-John Muir Chapter, Madison

March 16, 1998 PUBLIC HEARING HELD