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2005 - 2006 LEGISLATURE
February 27, 2006 - Introduced by Representative Albers. Referred to Committee
on Property Rights and Land Management.
AB1061,1,3
1An Act to create 66.1001 (7) of the statutes;
relating to: exempting certain
2cities and villages from the comprehensive planning statute known as Smart
3Growth.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under the current law popularly known as the "Smart Growth" statute, if a
local governmental unit (city, village, town, county, or regional planning commission)
creates a comprehensive plan (a development plan or a master plan) or amends an
existing comprehensive plan, the plan must contain certain planning elements. The
required planning elements include the following: housing; transportation; utilities
and community facilities; agricultural, natural, and cultural resources; economic
development; and land use.
Beginning on January 1, 2010, under Smart Growth, certain actions of a local
governmental unit that affect land use must be consistent with that local
governmental unit's comprehensive plan. The actions to which this requirement
applies are official mapping, local subdivision regulation, and zoning ordinances,
including zoning of shorelands or wetlands in shorelands. Also beginning on
January 1, 2010, under Smart Growth, if a local governmental unit engages in any
program or action that affects land use, the comprehensive plan must contain at least
all of the required planning elements.
This bill exempts from the Smart Growth statute any city or village that does
not border a town.
For further information see the state and local fiscal estimate, which will be
printed as an appendix to this bill.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
AB1061, s. 1
1Section
1. 66.1001 (7) of the statutes is created to read:
AB1061,2,32
66.1001
(7) Inapplicability to certain local governmental units. This section
3does not apply to any city or village that does not border a town at any point.
