Minutes Town of Holland CAC Meeting
7:00 July 13, 2004

Meeting started at 7:10

Mike Parmentier handed out information about macro farming which described both the Brown County ordinance affecting large scale animal farms as well as recent state legislation. He also brought to the meeting a copy of the Town zoning map as well as an
existing Town land use map. He then explained about the information that was sent out to the members prior this meeting.

The committee went through and discussed the goals and objectives portion of the Issues and Opportunities Chapter. There was a lengthy discussion about what if anything the Town could do about the possibility of stopping the PCB's from being put in the potential county landfill in the Town as that was one of the objectives listed under the Land Use category. Members of the town board at the meeting indicated that there wasn't anything the Town could do about it if it is decided to put PCB's  in the landfill site.
They mentioned that in prior negotiations regarding the landfill, the Town asked for and received as part of the contract with the County a stipulation that the Town would receive $10.00 per ton of PCB sediment if that would ever be put in the landfill. They indicated that the amount was much higher than was proposed by the county and it would be a mistake to try to reopen the negotiations since they felt that the Town had negotiated a very good contract.

One of the members asked about the objective "allow some lot sales on non-farmable property" under the Land Use Category. Mr. Parmentier indicated that it would be critical for the Town to identify specific criteria that would need to be met and specify such criteria within the Zoning Ordinance or comprehensive plan in order for that objective to be implemented. Without that, there would be too much chance of inconsistency in the application. He mentioned when the committee discusses that further in the land use chapter discussions, he would be bringing examples of different zoning alternatives for the committee to look at for this objective and other ones from the Land Use category.   If the committee does not like the alternatives, they then should think about eliminating this objective.

The next meeting will be at 7:00 p.m. at St. Pat's Church on Tuesday, August 10th to discuss the Transportation chapter which will be sent out to the members prior to the meeting.

The meeting adjourned at 8:35 p.m.

Mike Parmentier
Recording Secretary


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