oped in the preparation of community-level land
use plans and neighborhood development plans.
Specific Design Methodology
As noted above, the proposed year 2010 regional
land use plan is conceptually similar to the
adopted year 2000 land use plan. The following
three guidelines, which were used in the design
of the year 2000 land use plan, were also used
in the design of the proposed year 2010 plan:
1. New urban development would emphasize
medium densities and would be located in
those areas of the Region readily provided
with essential urban services, particularly
centralized sanitary sewer, water supply,
and transit services; new residential devel-
opment would occur largely in planned
neighborhood units.
2. No new urban development would be
allocated to the delineated primary envi-
ronmental corridors, in order to preserve
the best remaining elements of the natural
resource base of southeastern Wisconsin.
3. To the maximum extent practicable, no
new urban development would be allocated
to the delineated prime agricultural lands,
thereby preserving highly productive lands
for the continuing production of food
and fiber.
The specific procedures utilized in preparing the
proposed year 2010 land use plan were as follows:
1. A determination was made of the amount
of "developable" land located within each
U. S. Public Land Survey quarter section.
Developable land was defined as land
which, while not presently developed for
urban use, was suitable and could be
assumed available for such use. The devel-
opable land area was determined for each
quarter section by subtracting from the
quarter section total the area within the
quarter section included in identified envi-
ronmental corridors and floodlands, the
area covered by soils having "severe"
limitations for urban development even
with public centralized sanitary sewers,
and the areas covered by urban develop-
ment as of 1985.
2. An identification was made of those quar-
ter sections served by public sanitary

sewerage facilities in 1985 and those
planned to be served by such facilities in
the adopted regional water quality
management plan and in locally prepared
refinements to that plan.
3. An assignment of proposed residential
density was made to each quarter section
based on consideration of existing develop-
ment densities in the quarter section con-
cerned and in adjacent quarter sections,
trends in densities in adjacent quarter
sections, anticipated population levels, and
community plans and zoning provisions,
and based on consultation with county and
local planners within the Region.
The density categories utilized in the plan
preparation include urban high-density,
with a net lot area per dwelling unit
ranging from 0.06 to 0.14 acre; urban
medium-density, with a net lot area per
dwelling unit ranging from 0.15 to 0.44
acre; urban low-density, with a net lot area
per dwelling unit ranging from 0.45 to 1.44
acres; suburban residential-density, with a
net lot area per dwelling unit ranging from
1.45 to 5.00 acres; and rural residential-
density, with a net lot area per dwelling
unit exceeding 5.00 acres.
It should be noted that the standards set
forth in Chapter IX of this report envision
that the urban high-, medium-, and low-
density categories of residential develop-
ment will be provided with a full array of
urban services, including centralized sani-
tary sewer and water supply services and
walk-in elementary school service. The
standards further envision that the subur-
ban residential-density category will be
provided with partial urban services,
including solid waste collection and police,
fire and rescue services, but not including
walk-in elementary school or centralized
sanitary sewer and water supply services.
Thus, in the context of this report, the term
"suburban" is utilized in its literal sense;
that is, "sub-urban," indicating that a
particular area of urban development is
being provided with less than the full range
of available urban services. This meaning
of the term should not be confused with the
more popular meaning used to identify civil
divisions adjacent to a large central city.
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