AB645,1,5 1An Act to repeal 1.13 (3), 16.9651, 20.505 (1) (z) and 66.1001; and to amend
216.965 (2), 16.967 (6), 20.395 (4) (ax), 59.69 (3) (a), 59.72 (5) (b) 3., 62.23 (2),
362.23 (3) (b), 66.0309 (8) (a) 1. b., 66.0309 (9), 66.0309 (10) and 236.13 (1) (c)
4(intro.) of the statutes; relating to: repealing the comprehensive planning
5statute known as Smart Growth.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, a county board may engage in zoning and land use planning
by creating a county planning agency or by designating a previously constituted
county committee or commission as the county planning agency. If a county board
creates or designates such an agency, the agency is required to direct the preparation
of a county development plan for the physical development of the towns within the
county and for the cities and villages within the county whose governing bodies agree
to have their areas included in the county plan.
Also under current law, a city or village, or certain towns that exercise village
powers, may create a city, village, or town plan commission to engage in zoning and
land use planning. If a city, village, or town creates such a commission, the
commission is required to adopt a master plan for the physical development of the
city, village, or town, including in some instances, in the case of a city or village,
unincorporated areas outside of the city or village which are related to the city's or
village's development.
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 repeals the Smart Growth statute.
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:
AB645, s. 1 1Section 1. 1.13 (3) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 2 2Section 2. 16.965 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,3,63 16.965 (2) From the appropriations under s. 20.505 (1) (cm) and (if), the
4department may provide grants to local governmental units to be used to finance the
5cost of planning activities, including contracting for planning consultant services,
6public planning sessions and other planning outreach and educational activities, or
7for the purchase of computerized planning data, planning software or the hardware
8required to utilize that data or software. The department shall require any local
9governmental unit that receives a grant under this section to finance a percentage
10of the cost of the product or service to be funded by the grant from the resources of
11the local governmental unit. The department shall determine the percentage of the
12cost to be funded by a local governmental unit based on the number of applications
13for grants and the availability of funding to finance grants for the fiscal year in which

1grants are to be provided. A local governmental unit that desires to receive a grant
2under this subsection shall file an application with the department. The application
3shall contain a complete statement of the expenditures proposed to be made for the
4purposes of the grant. No local governmental unit is eligible to receive a grant under
5this subsection unless the local governmental unit agrees to utilize the grant to
6finance planning for all of the purposes specified in s. 66.1001 (2).
AB645, s. 3 7Section 3. 16.9651 of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 4 8Section 4. 16.967 (6) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,3,239 16.967 (6) Reports. By March 31 of each year, the department of
10administration, the department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection, the
11department of commerce, the department of health and family services, the
12department of natural resources, the department of tourism, the department of
13revenue, the department of transportation, the board of regents of the University of
14Wisconsin System, the public service commission and the board of curators of the
15historical society shall each submit to the board a plan to integrate land information
16to enable such information to be readily translatable, retrievable and geographically
17referenced for use by any state, local governmental unit or public utility. The plans
18shall include the information that will be needed by local governmental units to
19prepare comprehensive plans containing the planning elements required under s.
2066.1001 (2).
Upon receipt of this information, the board shall integrate the
21information to enable the information to be used to meet land information data
22needs. The integrated information shall be readily translatable, retrievable, and
23geographically referenced to enable members of the public to use the information.
AB645, s. 5 24Section 5. 20.395 (4) (ax) of the statutes is amended to read:
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120.395 (4) (ax) Departmental management and operations, federal funds. All
2moneys received from the federal government for the administration and
3management of departmental programs except those programs under subs. (2) (bx)
4and (dx) and (3) (ix), and for departmental planning and administrative activities
5including all moneys received as federal aid as authorized by the governor under s.
616.54 to promote highway safety and continue the local traffic safety representatives
7program and for purposes of s. 85.07 and for activities related to the transportation
8employment and mobility program under s. 85.24 that are not funded from the
9appropriation under sub. (1) (bs), (bv), or (bx), and to transfer to the appropriation
10account under s. 20.505 (1) (z) the amounts in the schedule under s. 20.505 (1) (z) for
11such purposes
.
AB645, s. 6 12Section 6. 20.505 (1) (z) of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 7 13Section 7. 59.69 (3) (a) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,4,2414 59.69 (3) (a) The county zoning agency may direct the preparation of a county
15development plan or parts of the plan for the physical development of the
16unincorporated territory within the county and areas within incorporated
17jurisdictions whose governing bodies by resolution agree to having their areas
18included in the county's development plan. The plan may be adopted in whole or in
19part and may be amended by the board and endorsed by the governing bodies of
20incorporated jurisdictions included in the plan. The county development plan, in
21whole or in part, in its original form or as amended, is hereafter referred to as the
22development plan. Beginning on January 1, 2010, if the county engages in any
23program or action described in s. 66.1001 (3), the development plan shall contain at
24least all of the elements specified in s. 66.1001 (2).
AB645, s. 8 25Section 8. 59.72 (5) (b) 3. of the statutes is amended to read:
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159.72 (5) (b) 3. The county uses $4 of each $5 fee retained under this paragraph
2to develop, implement, and maintain the countywide plan for land records
3modernization, and $1 of each $5 fee retained under this paragraph to develop and
4maintain a computerized indexing of the county's land information records relating
5to housing, including the housing element of the county's land use plan under s.
666.1001 (2) (b),
in a manner that would allow for greater public access through use
7of the Internet.
AB645, s. 9 8Section 9. 62.23 (2) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,5,229 62.23 (2) Functions. It shall be the function and duty of the commission to
10make and adopt a master plan for the physical development of the city, including any
11areas outside of its boundaries that in the commission's judgment bear relation to the
12development of the city provided, however, that in any county where a regional
13planning department has been established, areas outside the boundaries of a city
14may not be included in the master plan without the consent of the county board of
15supervisors. The master plan, with the accompanying maps, plats, charts, and
16descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show the commission's recommendations
17for such physical development, and shall, as described in sub. (3) (b), contain at least
18the elements described in s. 66.1001 (2)
. The commission may from time to time
19amend, extend, or add to the master plan or carry any part or subject matter into
20greater detail. The commission may adopt rules for the transaction of business and
21shall keep a record of its resolutions, transactions, findings, and determinations,
22which record shall be a public record.
AB645, s. 10 23Section 10. 62.23 (3) (b) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,6,1324 62.23 (3) (b) The commission may adopt the master plan as a whole by a single
25resolution, or, as the work of making the whole master plan progresses, may from

1time to time by resolution adopt a part or parts of a master plan. Beginning on
2January 1, 2010, if the city engages in any program or action described in s. 66.1001
3(3), the master plan shall contain at least all of the elements specified in s. 66.1001
4(2).
The adoption of the plan or any part, amendment, or addition, shall be by
5resolution carried by the affirmative votes of not less than a majority of all the
6members of the city plan commission. The resolution shall refer expressly to the
7elements under s. 66.1001 and other matters intended by the commission to form the
8whole or any part of the plan, and the action taken shall be recorded on the adopted
9plan or part of the plan by the identifying signature of the secretary of the
10commission, and a copy of the plan or part of the plan shall be certified to the common
11council. The purpose and effect of the adoption and certifying of the master plan or
12part of the plan shall be solely to aid the city plan commission and the council in the
13performance of their duties.
AB645, s. 11 14Section 11. 66.0309 (8) (a) 1. b. of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,6,1915 66.0309 (8) (a) 1. b. Consistent with the elements specified in s. 66.1001, make
16Make plans for the physical, social and economic development of the region, and,
17consistent with the elements specified in s. 66.1001,
adopt by resolution any plan or
18the portion of any plan so prepared as its official recommendation for the
19development of the region.
AB645, s. 12 20Section 12. 66.0309 (9) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,7,321 66.0309 (9) Preparation of master plan for region. The regional planning
22commission shall have the function and duty of making and adopting a master plan
23for the physical development of the region. The master plan, with the accompanying
24maps, plats, charts, programs and descriptive and explanatory matter, shall show
25the commission's recommendations for physical development and shall contain at

1least the elements described in s. 66.1001
. The regional planning commission may
2amend, extend or add to the master plan or carry any part or subject matter into
3greater detail.
AB645, s. 13 4Section 13. 66.0309 (10) of the statutes is amended to read:
AB645,7,235 66.0309 (10) Adoption of master plan for region. The master plan shall be
6made with the general purpose of guiding and accomplishing a coordinated, adjusted
7and harmonious development of the region which will, in accordance with existing
8and future needs, best promote public health, safety, morals, order, convenience,
9prosperity or the general welfare, as well as efficiency and economy in the process
10of development. The regional planning commission may adopt the master plan as
11a whole by a single resolution, or, as the work of making the whole master plan
12progresses, may by resolution adopt a part or parts of the master plan, any part to
13correspond with one or more of the elements specified in s. 66.1001
. The resolution
14shall refer expressly to the maps, plats, charts, programs and descriptive and
15explanatory matter, and other matters intended by the regional planning
16commission to form the whole or any part of the plan, and the action taken shall be
17recorded on the adopted plan or part of the adopted plan by the identifying signature
18of the chairperson of the regional planning commission and a copy of the plan or part
19of the adopted plan shall be certified to the legislative bodies of the local
20governmental units within the region. The purpose and effect of adoption of the
21master plan shall be solely to aid the regional planning commission and the local
22governments and local government officials comprising the region in the
23performance of their functions and duties.
AB645, s. 14 24Section 14. 66.1001 of the statutes is repealed.
AB645, s. 15 25Section 15. 236.13 (1) (c) (intro.) of the statutes is amended to read:
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1236.13 (1) (c) A comprehensive plan under s. 66.1001 or, if the municipality,
2town, or county does not have a comprehensive plan, either
Either of the following:
AB645,8,33 (End)
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