Village President Margaret Jaberg called the meeting to order at 7:30 p.m.

Present: Village President Jaberg, Trustee Yvonne Nealy, Trustee Tim Schilz, Susan Bellehumeur, Carl Krueger, Jim McGuigan, John Raffensperger, Jerry Schmitz, Debra Falk

Excused: None

Present: Trustee Jeff Baker, Trustee Ron Kundinger, Trustee Robert Moranski, Trustee Susan Schneider

Excused: None

Also Present: Village Manager Russell Van Gompel, Village Attorney William P. Dineen, and Director of Community Development Mary Kay Buratto.

(Before the public hearings were opened, Village Manager Russ Van Gompel addressed the Commission on one change to our approvals process that staff is introducing at this meeting. At Mary Kay’s suggestion, petitions for Conditional Use Permits will be placed first on a Village Board agenda for referral to the Plan Commission. At the Plan Commission meeting, Commissioners review the petition, specifically the business, site and operational plan elements. The Plan Commission sends its recommendation on the petition to the Village Board and sets the public hearing date. The public hearing takes place at a meeting of the Village Board. Mary Kay’s intent is to streamline the process and make it more efficient. Commissioners agreed to try the change, but asked that applicants make a full presentation of proposed conditional use permit projects to the Plan Commission.)

The Village Board and Plan Commission reviewed a request from US Cellular for a conditional use permit that the Plan Commission had reviewed and recommended for public hearing in February, 2001. The only change to the original request is for a TDMA 800 cabinet rather than the much larger concrete vault.

Stephanie Moes (Park Plaza Court) Spoke in favor of the installation. She is a US Cellular subscriber and believes that US Cellular should be able to locate in Brown Deer as other providers have so that she can also have better quality service.

Victor Frank (7641 North Sherman Boulevard), Member of the Water Commission, asked the Board and Plan Commission to understand that these installations provide revenue that keeps water costs down. He asks that the Board support the installation

Following the public hearing, Commissioners and Board members discussed the impact of this installation (and existing installations) on the aesthetics of the site. There was concern that the number and types of cabinets are an eyesore at this entrance to the Community already identified by the existing stand pipe. Members asked questions about the lease agreement and wanted to know if US Cellular would remove their equipment if they went out of business. This is taken care of in the lease agreement that is on the May 17^th agenda of the Water Commission for approval.

The Village President opened the public hearing on the renaming of Woods Drive to Woods Circle. No one from the public spoke.

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE TAKEN UP BY THE PLAN COMMISSION

JDN Realty Corporation presented their final planned development project plan for an expansion of the center incorporating 48,000 square feet of storefronts added to the existing in-line shops and an outbuilding providing 10,400 square feet of retail space. The expansion accommodates a $4 million dollar expansion of the Kohls Department Store and the addition of an Old Navy store and a Bath and Body Works store. The outbuilding will support an Appleby’s restaurant, the House of Roth drive-thru dry cleaners and space for three other small storefronts. In addition, the owners are reconfiguring the parking for the Pick and Save grocery store and adding planting islands in other areas of the parking lot. The expansion will result in the removal of the Hardees building and sign when the outbuilding is completed. Kohls hopes to have their expansion completed by the Christmas retail season in December 2001.

Ron Bryson, of JDN Realty Corporation, and Frank Pletcher, the project architect, updated Board members and Commissioners on the changes they had made to the final plan which responded to ideas and concerns raised over the past months by the Village. The Building Board has approved the architecture for the in-line building and the new outbuilding, and the Beautification Committee has approved the project landscape plan. Staff and the Village attorney are reviewing the Development Agreement.

Board members and Commissioners discussed and asked questions about parking, traffic stacking around McDonalds, signage, internal pedestrian circulation and clarifying the language in one area of the development agreement. The Village Board asked that the Developer stripe a crosswalk from the east side of the outbuilding across the internal north-south driveway to the parking lot serving the in-line center and to install stop signs at that spot.

THE FOLLOWING ITEMS WERE TAKEN UP BY THE VILLAGE BOARD

Galyn Bennet, representing the Fourth of July Committee, presented Plan Commissioners with raffle tickets that benefit the Fourth of July program.

Mary Kay asked Commissioners if they would like to take the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Plan Commission (SEWRPC) up on its offer to brief the Village Board and other Boards and Commissions on the Freeway Reconstruction Study. Commissioners directed Mary Kay to contact SEWRPC to set up a meeting with the Village Boards and Commissions for an initial briefing sometime in June of this year. The Commission may want to schedule two other briefings to coordinate with the timing of the SEWRPC’s timeline for preparing its final recommendations on the reconstruction of the freeway system.

Mr. Mike Hamlin, senior property manager for the Y has requested site plan approval for a gazebo, trail extensions and a boat landing to their outdoor campsite. After a brief presentation of the proposal by Mary Kay Buratto, Commissioners asked the applicant be prepared to give a presentation on the proposed improvements when he returns with his engineered site plan. Commissioners also asked Mary Kay to find out if the climbing tower, approved last year, has been built.

Commissioners reviewed the request by property owner Jim Bertram for a conditional use permit for the Hadassah resale shop on his property at 7701 North Teutonia. Commissioners asked that in the future they would like to see a full presentation for projects requesting a recommendation for a conditional use permit.

Anne Lowe, representing Hadassah Upscale Resale, asked that the Public Hearing date be set later because she will be out of town on June 4^th. Commissioners agreed to set the Public Hearing date for June 18^th before the Village Board.

Commissioners discussed the request and the proposed site plan and equipment layout for the installation. They expressed concern over the marketability of Lot 58 with the easement and equipment on it. They noted that the hatch for the underground vault protruded 34 inches above ground and that a 2 feet by 4 feet cross box on a 7 feet by 4 feet cement slab would need significant landscaping to shield it from view. Commissioners were also concerned about the location and materials for the proposed 16 feet by 50 feet driveway. Mary Kay stated that it was her understanding that the Village would require a paved driveway leading to the installation. Some Commissioners believed the driveway should be paved, while others were concerned about the look of a paved driveway coming off County Line Road onto Lot 58. Commissioners discussed different locations for the installation and different dimensions for the driveway.

Commissioner McGuigan was interested in seeing a landscape plan for the site and Commissioner Raffensperger asked how many other DSL installation were in place or proposed for the Village. The Village Manager knew of one other site and the Ameritech representative said he would try to obtain that information for the Commission.

After reviewing the request and hearing from Mr. Robert Bokowski who represented Ameritech, Commissioners agreed to hold this item over until the June meeting to give the applicant time to prepare a full presentation that included elevations of the entire installation, clear photos of the site and its relationship to the surrounding area and a schedule of all the steps Ameritech needs to take to get all the necessary Village approvals for this installation. Commissioners also asked that the property owner(s) be present when the item comes back for review.

Village Manager Russ Van Gompel reminded Commissioners that this request is related to the stormwater improvements in the area between Willow Road and Churchill Lane on North 54^th Street. Because the cost of installing the box culverts and subsequent road reconstruction to allow automobile traffic over the drainage improvements was greater than anticipated, the decision was made to install a pedestrian bridge to save costs. There are statutory requirements for the discontinuance of streets that the Village must follow including introducing a resolution to discontinue the pavement, publish a Class III notice, serve notice on abutting property owners and hold a public hearing not less than forty days after the resolution is introduced. The action requested by the Plan Commission is to authorize the preparation of the resolution for introduction by the Village Board at its next meeting.

Commissioners discussed the request and asked that a public informational meeting by held in addition to the required public hearing and that all residents in the area bounded by Dean Road, Bradley Road, North 55^th Street, and North 51^st Street be given notice of the informational meeting and of the public hearing. The Library was suggested as a possible location for the informational meeting. Commissioners requested that the meeting be held as soon as possible.

Mary Kay asked Commissioners to consider recommending adoption of application fees that will help offset the cost of staff time reviewing and processing development requests. She explained that the fees presented reflected an average time for the different types of development approvals requested. Some Commissioners believed the fees were long overdue, but others expressed concern about how small businesses and individual owners of smaller, single properties would be affected by the fees. Commissioners asked Mary Kay to: 1) Survey several other communities to see if the proposed fee schedule is in line with what other communities are charging, 2) Ask these communities if they stack fees when a proposal requires several different approvals, 3) Show, using a recently approved development, how the fees would be applied, and 4) Prepare a flow chart of how the fees would be applied to prospective requests for development approval.

Russell Van Gompel, Village Manager