66.1001 Comprehensive planning. (1)
DEFINITIONS. In this section:
(a) "Comprehensive plan" means:
1. For a county, a development plan that is prepared or amended under s.
59.69
(2) or (3).
2. For a city or a village, or for a town that exercises village powers
under s. 60.22 (3), a master plan that is adopted or amended under s. 62.23
(2) or (3).
3. For a regional planning commission, a master plan that is adopted or
amended under s. 66.0309
(8), (9) or (10).
(b) "Local governmental unit" means a city, village, town, county
or regional planning commission that may adopt, prepare or amend a comprehensive
plan.
(2) CONTENTS OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. A comprehensive plan shall contain
all of the following elements:
(a) Issues and opportunities element. Background information on the local
governmental unit and a statement of overall objectives, policies, goals
and programs of the local governmental unit to guide the future development
and redevelopment of the local governmental unit over a 20-year planning
period. Background information shall include population, household and
employment forecasts that the local governmental unit uses in developing
its comprehensive plan, and demographic trends, age distribution, educational
levels, income levels and employment characteristics that exist within
the local governmental unit.
(b) Housing element. A compilation of objectives, policies, goals, maps
and programs of the local governmental unit to provide an adequate housing
supply that meets existing and forecasted housing demand in the local
governmental unit. The element shall assess the age, structural, value
and occupancy characteristics of the local governmental unit's housing
stock.
The element shall also identify specific policies and programs that promote
the development of housing for residents of the local governmental unit
and provide a range of housing choices that meet the needs of persons
of all income levels and of all age groups and persons with special needs,
policies and programs that promote the availability of land for the development
or redevelopment of low-income and moderate-income housing, and policies
and programs to maintain or rehabilitate the local governmental unit's
existing housing stock.
(c) Transportation element. A compilation of objectives, policies, goals,
maps and programs to guide the future development of the various modes
of transportation, including highways, transit, transportation systems
for persons with disabilities, bicycles, electric personal assistive mobility
devices, walking, railroads, air transportation, trucking and water transportation.
The element
shall compare the local governmental unit's objectives, policies, goals
and programs to state and regional transportation plans. The element shall
also identify highways within the local governmental unit by function
and incorporate state, regional and other applicable transportation plans,
including transportation corridor plans, county highway functional and
jurisdictional studies, urban area and rural area transportation plans,
airport master plans and rail plans that apply in the local governmental
unit.
(d) Utilities and community facilities element. A compilation of objectives,
policies, goals, maps and programs to guide the future development of
utilities and community facilities in the local governmental unit such
as sanitary sewer service, storm water management, water supply, solid
waste disposal, on-site
wastewater treatment technologies, recycling facilities, parks, telecommunications
facilities, power-generating plants and transmission lines, cemeteries,
health care facilities, child care facilities and other public facilities,
such as police, fire and rescue facilities, libraries, schools and other
governmental facilities. The element shall describe the location, use
and capacity of existing public utilities and community facilities that
serve the local governmental unit, shall include an approximate timetable
that forecasts the need in the local governmental unit to expand or rehabilitate
existing utilities and facilities or to create new utilities and facilities
and shall assess future needs for government services in the local governmental
unit that are related to such utilities and facilities.
(e) Agricultural, natural and cultural resources element. A compilation
of objectives, policies, goals, maps and programs for the conservation,
and promotion of the effective management, of natural resources such as
groundwater, forests, productive agricultural areas, environmentally sensitive
areas, threatened and endangered species, stream corridors, surface water,
floodplains, wetlands, wildlife habitat, metallic and nonmetallic mineral
resources, parks, open spaces, historical and cultural resources, community
design, recreational resources and other natural resources.
(f) Economic development element. A compilation of objectives, policies,
goals, maps and programs to promote the stabilization, retention or expansion,
of the economic base and quality employment opportunities in the local
governmental unit, including an analysis of the labor force and economic
base of the local governmental unit. The element shall assess categories
or particular
types of new businesses and industries that are desired by the local governmental
unit. The element shall assess the local governmental unit's strengths
and weaknesses with respect to attracting and retaining businesses and
industries, and shall designate an adequate number of sites for such businesses
and industries. The element shall also evaluate and promote the use of
environmentally contaminated sites for commercial or industrial uses.
The
element shall also identify county, regional and state economic development
programs that apply to the local governmental unit.
(g) Intergovernmental cooperation element. A compilation of objectives,
policies, goals, maps and programs for joint planning and decision making
with other jurisdictions, including school districts and adjacent local
governmental units, for siting and building public facilities and sharing
public services. The element shall analyze the relationship of the local
governmental unit to school districts and adjacent local governmental
units, and to the region, the state and other governmental units. The
element shall incorporate any plans or agreements to which the local governmental
unit is a party under s. 66.0301,
66.0307
or 66.0309.
The element shall identify existing or potential conflicts between the
local governmental unit and other governmental units that are specified
in this paragraph and describe processes to resolve such conflicts.
(h) Land-use element. A compilation of objectives, policies, goals, maps
and programs to guide the future development and redevelopment of public
and private property. The element shall contain a listing of the amount,
type, intensity and net density of existing uses of land in the local
governmental unit, such as agricultural, residential, commercial, industrial
and other public and private uses. The element shall analyze trends in
the supply, demand and price of land, opportunities for redevelopment
and existing and potential land-use conflicts. The element shall contain
projections, based on the background information specified in par. (a),
for 20 years, in 5-year increments, of future residential,
agricultural, commercial and industrial land uses including the assumptions
of net densities or other spatial assumptions upon which the projections
are based. The element shall also include a series of maps that shows
current land uses and future land uses that indicate productive agricultural
soils, natural limitations for
building site development, floodplains, wetlands and other environmentally
sensitive lands, the boundaries of areas to which services of public utilities
and community facilities, as those terms are used in par. (d), will be
provided in the future, consistent with the timetable described in par.
(d), and the general location of future land uses by net density or other
classifications.
(i) Implementation element. A compilation of programs and specific actions
to be completed in a stated sequence, including proposed changes to any
applicable zoning ordinances, official maps, sign regulations, erosion
and storm water control ordinances, historic preservation ordinances,
site plan regulations,
design review ordinances, building codes, mechanical codes, housing codes,
sanitary codes or subdivision ordinances, to implement the objectives,
policies, plans and programs contained in pars. (a) to (h). The element
shall describe how each of the elements of the comprehensive plan will
be integrated and made consistent with the other elements of the comprehensive
plan, and shall include a mechanism to measure the local governmental
unit's progress toward achieving all aspects of the comprehensive plan.
The element shall include a process for updating the comprehensive plan.
A comprehensive plan under this subsection
shall be updated no less than once every 10 years.
(3) ACTIONS, PROCEDURES THAT MUST BE CONSISTENT WITH
COMPREHENSIVE PLANS. Beginning on January 1, 2010, any program
or action of a local governmental unit that affects land use shall be
consistent with that local governmental unit's comprehensive plan, including
all of the following:
(a) Municipal incorporation procedures under s. 66.0201,
66.0203
or 66.0215.
(b) Annexation procedures under s. 66.0217,
66.0219
or 66.0223.
(c) Cooperative boundary agreements entered into under s. 66.0307.
(d) Consolidation of territory under s. 66.0229.
(e) Detachment of territory under s. 66.0227.
(f) Municipal boundary agreements fixed by judgment under s. 66.0225.
(g) Official mapping established or amended under s. 62.23(6).
(h) Local subdivision regulation under s. 236.45
or 236.46.
(i) Extraterritorial plat review within a city's or village's extraterritorial
plat approval jurisdiction, as is defined in s. 236.02
(5).
(j) County zoning ordinances enacted or amended under
s.
59.69.
(k) City or village zoning ordinances enacted or amended under s.
62.23
(7).
(l) Town zoning ordinances enacted or amended under s. 60.61 or 60.62
(m) An improvement of a transportation facility that is undertaken under
s. 84.185
(n) Agricultural preservation plans that are prepared or revised under
subch IV of ch. 91
(o) Impact fee ordinances that are enacted or amended under s. 66.0617
(p) Land acquisition for recreational lands and parks under s. 23.09(20)
(q) Zoning of shorelands or wetlands in shorelands under s. s. 59.692,
61.351, 62.231
(r) Construction site erosion control and storm water management zoning
under s. 59.693, 61.354 or 62.234
(s) Any other ordinance, plan or regulation of a local governmental unit
that relates to land use.
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