Five things you should know about Pewaukee's new conditional-use rules
Apr 12, 2018The action was prompted by a new state law that makes it harder for municipalities to deny businesses conditional-use permits. Under the law, business plans must be approved if they provide substantial evidence that they follow the conditional-use ordinances. It's the same law that prompted the nearby town of Delafield to consider a moratorium on residential development until it can review and possibly amend its conditional-use ordinances.RELATED: New state law prompts town of Delafield to consider a moratorium on residential developmentIn the village of Pewaukee, here's what you need to know about the new rules:1. Certain uses will no longer be allowed within the Institutional and Public Service districts: crematory services, funeral homes, sanitary landfills, hospitals and public or private noncommercial outdoor facilities (such as a village-owned golf course or golf course reserved for club members).Mostly, this includes things that the commission felt were too large for the 4.6-square-mile village. If a building or business plan is not listed under conditional use it will be more difficult to create, but not impossible. 2. If a proprietor wants to build any of the above plans, they can petition the village to add the use back to the conditional use. That process will be more difficult because the commission could deny the request. 3. Conditional uses that remain include mausoleums, concert halls, cemeteries and nursing homes."Nursing homes" include long-term in-patient facilities, meaning that the proposed drug treatment center at the old River Hills West nursing home building will still be an acceptable use. RELATED: Decision delayed on potential drug treatment center at former River Hills West nursing home in Pewaukee4. Even for uses that are allowed under the ordinance, proprietors would have to provide substantial information on traffic, sewage, soil and more before they would be approved. 5. Schools, churches, libraries and state-certified daycare facilities would still fall under... (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
