Table 82
COMPARISON OF EXISTING AND PLANNED
GOVERNMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL LAND
USE IN THE REGION BY COUNTY: 1985
Governmental and
Institutional Land Use: 1985
Variance Between
Existing and
Planned Land Use
Actual  Planned
County     (acres)  (acres)  Acresa  Percentb
Kenosha ...... ... 1,314  1,097  217  19.8
Milwaukee  . . ..  7,154  6,956  198   2.8
Ozaukee ...... ... 1,024  921   103   11.2
Racine  ....... . 1,813  1,755  58    3.3
Walworth  .....  1,259  1,204   55     4.6
Washington  . . ..  1,087  955  132    13.8
Waukesha .....  3,589  3,313    276    8.3
Region        17,240  16,201  1,039   6.4
aActual 1985 land use minus planned 1985land use.
bAbsolute variance as percent of planned 1985 land use.
Source: SEWRPC.
Between 1963 and 1970, land devoted to trans-
portation, communication, and utility uses in the
Region increased by 12,100 acres, or 13 percent,
an average annual increase of 1,724 acres.
Between 1970, the base year of the adopted
regional land use plan, and 1985, transportation,
communication, and utility land in the Region
increased by an additional 16,600 acres, or
16 percent, an average annual increase of 1,106
acres. Each of the seven counties in southeastern
Wisconsin gained at least 1,000 acres of trans-
portation, communication, and utility land since
1970, with Waukesha County experiencing the
largest increase, nearly 5,000 acres.
The increase in transportation, communication,
and utility land in the Region between 1970 and
1985 was somewhat greater than that antici-
pated under the adopted regional land use plan
(see Table 84 and Figure 35). The plan envisi-
oned a total of about 114,400 acres of transpor-
tation, communication, and utility land in the
Region in 1985. The actual area devoted to such
use is thus greater than the planned area by
about 5,900 acres, or 5 percent. This is directly
related to the supportive nature of the transpor-
tation, communication, and utility uses relative
to other urban land uses and the fact that most
of the other urban uses have, as previously
noted, increased at rates somewhat greater
than planned.

Figure 34
COMPARISON OF EXISTING AND PLANNED
GOVERNMENTAL AND INSTITUTIONAL LAND
USE IN THE REGION BY COUNTY: 1970 AND 1985
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Recreational Land Use: The recreational land
use category includes public and private land
devoted to recreational uses, including play-
grounds, parks, golf courses, zoos, campgrounds,
picnic areas, marinas, and others. It is impor-
tant to note that this category includes only
those areas which have been developed for
intensive recreational use. Adjacent portions of
public and private sites that have not been
developed for intensive recreational use are
classified in the regional land use inventory
according to their land cover, that is, classified
as wetland, woodland, or other open land as
appropriate, rather than as recreational land.5
This section pertains to recreational land use,
defined as those public or private lands which
have been developed for intensive recreational
use. Adjacent portions of public or private open
space sites that have not been developed for such
use are not taken into account in this section. It
should be noted that the total area of all public
and private outdoor recreation sites, including
both developed and undeveloped portions, was
114,200 acres in 1985. Of this total, 84,300 acres,
or 74 percent, were in public ownership. Addi-
tional information on outdoor recreation sites in
southeastern Wisconsin is presented in Chapter
V of this report.

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