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COMPLETED AND ADOPTED LOCAL
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS INCLUDING LAND
USE ELEMENT IN THE REGION: 1985

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AREA COVERED BY
MULTI-COMMUNITY PLANS

GENERAL ZONING ORDINANCES
IN THE REGION: 1985

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By 1985, community comprehensive, or master, plans had been
prepared for 73 of the 147 local units of government in the Region.
These plans covered an area of about 1,023 square miles, or
about 38 percent of the total area of the Region. Plans for 56
of the communities concerned were prepared concurrently with
or since preparation and adoption of the initial design year 1990
regional land use plan and, thus, represent community planning
efforts which have been conducted within the context of an
established regional land use planning effort. Of the 73
communities for which local comprehensive, or master, plans
have been prepared, 41 have formally adopted the plan by action
of the local plan commission. Formal adoption of such plans is
highly desirable, not only to assure a common understanding
among all concerned of development objectives, but also because
certain important plan implementation actions, such as land
subdivision control, depend for their validity in part upon a finding
of conformance to, or conflict with, a formally adopted plan.
Source: SEWRPC
adopted, a town may adopt a zoning ordinance
under Section 60.61 of the Wisconsin Statutes,
but only after the county board fails to adopt a
county zoning ordinance at the petition of the
town board concerned.

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In 1985, comprehensive zoning was in effect in all but two of
the 147 municipalities in the Region, including all 28 cities, all
54 villages, and all but two of the 65 towns. Forty-two towns
were under the jurisdiction of a county zoning ordinance, while
21 towns had adopted their own zoning ordinances. Since 1985,
the base year of the most recent regional zoning inventory, several
changes have occurred in the local zoning framework in the
Region. In 1986, Washington County rescinded its general zoning
ordinance, and all nine towns which were subject to the general
county ordinance have since adopted a town zoning ordinance.
In 1989, the Town of Pleasant Prairie incorporated as a village
and now administers its own village zoning ordinance. The Towns
of Bristol and Salem acted to approve the Kenosha County zoning
ordinance in 1990, followed by the Town of Paris in 1991. As
of 1991, then, general zoning was in effect in each municipality
in the Region except the Town of Brighton in Kenosha County.
Source: SEWRPC.
Comprehensive zoning was in effect in all but
two of the 147 municipalities in the Region in
1985 (see Map 46). Comprehensive zoning was in
effect in each of the 28 cities, in each of the
54 villages, and in 63 of the 65 towns in the

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