The meeting was called to order by Village President Jaberg at 7:30 P.M.

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Mary Kay reported that she has participated, along with other staff and elected officials from southeastern Wisconsin, in drafting a white paper sponsored by the Wisconsin Sustainable Cities Inc. proposing that the State partner with local government to create a regional approach to economic development, planning, governmental service delivery and taxation. The paper is in response to a study prepared by Myron Orfield and Thomas Luce for the Wisconsin Alliance of Cities entitled Wisconsin Metropatterns.

The Village's I&I (Infiltration and Inflow) sewer lateral lining project will be complete by the middle of next week. Mary Kay has been fine tuning the staff development review process and is creating a development application packet to hand out to anyone applying for development approval.

Mary Kay introduced Walter Koceja, owner of the Badger Fuel Gas Station, and his agent, Mr. Bob Goehner. Mr. Koceja is seeking concept plan approval for a new submittal for a car wash. If the Commission grants concept approval, Mr. Koceja will submit an application for a conditional use permit. Mary Kay informed the Commission that when they denied the previous submittal, Mr. Koceja turned to Mr. Goehner for help in preparing a proposal that would meet his and the Village's needs. Staff has been working with Mr. Goehner in the preparation of the site plan, and the plan presented tonight incorporates many of staff's suggestions. Comments and suggestions from the Commission and staff will be included in the final site plan when it is presented.

Mr. Goehner presented the proposal and identified the changes from the original site plan. Commissioners asked questions about internal traffic circulation, architecture, hours of operation, the layout of the new retail space inside the existing building, the operation of the car wash, lighting, signage and drainage.

Commissioners agreed that the new submittal was a vast improvement over the original. After many questions and much discussion about the car wash, Commissioners also agreed that they were comfortable recommending that the car wash could operate from 6:30 a.m. until 9:30 p.m. daily. The Commission would also recommend, when the time comes, that outside parking of vehicles not related to the gas station or car wash operations be prohibited. The North Shore Fire Department has reviewed the concept plan and the applicant will need to request the department in writing for a variance from the sprinkling requirements for the existing building and addition. Fire Marshall David Lind provided the applicant with three choices for locating the dumpster that would allow a monitoring and detection system in place of sprinklers.

Commissioners asked that the vacuums be shut off when the car wash was not in use. Mary Kay was asked to find out the hours of operation for the other two car washes in the Village to compare the times with the hours suggested for Badger Fuel. Any cars awaiting repairs which remain overnight on sight must be parked in the stalls on the south side of the property.

The Commissioners approved the concept by consensus.

Mary Kay introduced the proposal from Great Lakes Companies, Inc. for a conditional use permit to allow Stephanie Moes and Stephanie Sutrick, owners of Stephanie's Cabana Café, to allow limited outdoor restaurant seating for their patrons. The Conditional Use Permit petition asks for a total of 5 tables with 2 chairs each. Three of the tables will be placed on the sidewalk on the east side of the gift shop and the other two tables will be placed on the sidewalk in front of the café. The owners of Stephanie’s will bring the tables and chairs in at the end of the day and will maintain the sidewalk and parking lot free of litter. They have two trash receptacles in front of their café now and will add a third. They presented a letter of support from the owner of the gift shop next door.

Commissioners were shown photos of the table and chairs that will be used. Commissioner Prawitz stated that he drove to the site and found that there was plenty of room on the sidewalk for the proposed number and types of tables. The owners will utilize the outdoor dining when the weather permits.

It was moved by Commissioner Prawitz and seconded by Commissioner Jordan to recommend approval of the conditional use permit.

After reviewing the Tannhaeuser's petition and the letter from Attorney Dolan, Commissioners asked several questions related to the petition and discussed the request. Mary Kay reported that she had asked Attorney Bill Dineen to review the letter and the petition. He responded to Mary Kay that the Village has no legal obligation to purchase the outlot. Mary Kay's report states that she believes the issue is one between two property owners and not with the Village since the Village does not own the outlot. Commissioners supported the position that the Village was not required or obligated to purchase the outlot.

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Mary Kay Buratto

Director of Community Development