for Washington Planning Commission meeting for September 7th, 2026.
Roll call, all commissioners are present. Mr. Ehrlich is excused if he doesn't come,
and if he's late, he's late. So with that, I need a motion or conversation around the previous
meetings minutes. There's a motion to approve. Is there a second? Seconded. Any questions or
concerns on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed?
Okay, motion carries. The next item on the agenda is public comments and appearances.
Please remember, as community members, you have the three minutes to speak and a maximum of 30
minutes and comments need to be relevant to agendas on the Planning Commission. Any public
comments? Any public comments? Any public comments? All right, seeing none, that moves us into
agenda item number four, which is use interpretation, consideration, and possible action on a use
determination for a proposed intergenerational daycare facility located at 104 West Main Street.
Zeal Investment Partners is the applicant. The subject for this evening is that the
Planning Commission is being asked to reconsider the original proposal and motions from the last
meeting together and potentially take action on that. The Planning Commission is being asked to
reconsider a previous determination that a proposed intergenerational daycare facility is
permissible in the B4 zoning district as a community service use and private club.
And the recommendation is that the Planning Commission move to reconsider the original motion
and then deny the original motion to classify the proposed use, a community service establishment
as a private larger club. Mr. Harris. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So from at the last meeting,
the Planning Commission took up this matter of a intergenerational daycare facility.
And the specific issue was that under the zoning code, there is an ability by the Planning Commission
in the case of a question as a classification of a use. It shall be submitted to the Planning
Commission for determination. In this case, it was determined that a community service use
private lodge or club is a for-profit motive. And therefore, it did not explicitly meet the
definition of a community service or a public private lodge or club. And therefore, the August
interpretation went beyond the parameters of this interpretation. So we are here tonight to
take up this consideration again. So this is kind of a two-part step here. So to reconsider that
August motion, the Planning Commission shall make a motion to reconsider that motion
and classify the, and that motion was to classify the proposed use as a private club.
So this is to reconsider that motion. This is an action item, and there should be a motion to
reconsider and then seconded and then a vote by the Commission. And so if that vote moves forward,
then we go back to that original question of, is this a community service use or private club?
And the action is taken again, repeating that August step. So I hope I clarify that for you.
We do have the City Attorney, if you have any specific or detailed questions.
But with that, I will hand it over to the Commission.
Yeah. So with that then, following parliamentary procedures, the first vote would be,
so imagine a piece of paper, we're moving this back onto the table for reconsideration
after, if we decide to do that, when it comes back up, the recommendation for Mr. Harris is to
make the motion on the original motion and then to ensure that we are following both the law
and our own ordinances, then we would need to vote that down. Okay. So I can't tell you how to
vote, but the recommendation is we approve the reconsideration, we then remake the motion,
and then that we vote down that motion. So I'm going to start the this off with,
I'm going to move to reconsider the August 26, 2026 action to classify the use of a community
service establishment as a private, larger club. So someone willing to second that motion.
Seconded, Mr. Reyer or Nate. Okay. Mr. Herlank. Any questions or concerns on that motion?
All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed?
Okay. That brings back to the floor of the original motion and the original motion is to
classify the proposed use of a community service establishment as a private, larger club and that
original motion then to be brought back to the floor for consideration and the recommendation
again from staff is to vote down that motion. So I'm going to make the motion to bring back
to the floor the classification of the proposed use as a community service establishment as a
private club or lodge and the original motion is now on the floor. Is there a second?
Second. There's a second on that motion. All right. Any questions or concerns on the motion?
All right. So all in favor to classify the proposed use of a community service
attachment or private lodge signify by saying aye. Opposed? Nay. The motion fails.
Okay. Thank you very much and we'll start over and you have a new pathway. Okay. All right.
That brings us to the second agenda item. Thank you for everyone for following that
parliamentary procedure piece. Those of us model United Nations veterans. No, that was fun.
Consideration and possible action on a proposed piano retail store to be located at 700 North
Wisconsin Street. Ross line Weber is the applicant. The consideration and possible action on this
is to ask the is asking for the plan commission to review and approve the proposed use for the
subject property. The staff recommendation on this is to approve is to approve the recommendation
as is Mr Harris. Okay. So I know all of you are familiar with the Kissinger building at 700
North Wisconsin. And as you know, that was recently purchased by a local property owner.
And he has been doing some upgrades to the building, both internal and external prior to
seeking commercial space tenants for that ground floor. The building is a bit of an oddity zoning
wise. It is a base zoning of residential, but it has a there aren't many properties with this
overlay, but it's an office and special service district commercial overlay allowing for
retail and other commercial uses in this property. And specifically, it is a specialized retail
is specifically in the zoning code, which this would fall under. And it is, you know, it gives
examples such as appliances, obviously, flowers, gift shops. And I think as also we would be
approving this retail shop for Heartland pianos. There has been there's no changes to the
exterior as part of this application. And there is no other changes to the building or site.
The brief blurb on the hours of operation are in your packet, but the applicant is here.
If you have any specific questions or curious questions for their business, otherwise staff
recommends to approve. Any questions or wonderings? Roger? I think it's a great use of the site.
I move to approve. There's a motion to approve. Is there a second? There's a second. Any questions
or concerns on the motion? All right, seeing none. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye.
Opposed? Okay. All right. How awesome for us? This will be very cool. Look forward to having a
piano man out on the corner there every day taking requests. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's your job.
Yeah, excellent. Well, we'll get you a cabaret license. You can serve beer. It'll be awesome.
All right. So that takes us to the last gen item, a pre-concept plan presentation and discussion
under proposed single-family subdivision containing approximately 107 lots located on 61 acres of land
on the south side of East Soc Road, east of I-43 and west of the Ozaki Inner Urban Trail in the
town of Grafton. Troy Harchas, R.A. Smith, is the applicant. The project is being done by the local
developer Bob Tillman. And the staff recommendation is none at this time. This is a discussion item
only, Mr. Harris. So as the commission knows, when we do have a proposed subdivision, we always start
off with a what we call a pre-concept plan. And that is an old action item, a discussion item only,
and it allows adjacent residents or residents in the area just kind of a heads up of a proposed
subdivision and offers just an opportunity to discuss the project, to ask questions,
without it having an action item immediately following. So up on the screen, you see the
location of the proposed subdivision. So it is kind of on our, what I call our western growth area
as of late because it is just southwest of the recently, or the newest subdivision of Highland
Point North. It's on the south side of Esoc Road. And then it kind of has a border with the I-43
right away and the interurban trail. And then this is a close up of the, just a conceptual
layout of the lots. It is about 107 lots in this iteration. And then just showing just kind of
layout. And I noted a couple of features of the subdivision. It'll have, as at least in this
concept plan, some double-fronted lots with some birming and landscaping if it goes through in
this format along Esoc Road and along Ridgewood Road as well. Has three or four cul-de-sacs.
And then it has an abutting to the Ozaki Trail. And I anticipate a connection to that.
That's the overall summary of the subdivision and the applicant and the engineering team are
here if you have any questions. Any questions or wonderings? Mr. Ehrlich.
So my only question would be is we should review it with the fire chief just to make sure as far as
because there are so many cul-de-sacs. And there's only one main road in, correct,
from what I can tell. There's two egresses. Okay.
Okay. Ridgewood. Okay. Okay. I would just make sure that we talk,
talk to the fire chief and that they can get in and out easily. And so. Otherwise, I think it's,
I think it's great that we're, we're expanding to our west and utilizing some of that space.
Yeah. I want to thank Mr. Tillman for bringing this forward with the developer because this is,
if you guys could get this built by December, we could probably sell it out for you pretty
quickly with the growth. When you look at Ozaki County's growth rates and then you look at
poor Washington property values and rapidness of sales and property valuations going over
112, 120 percent of listing costs, you know, we're a destination community. So it'll be nice to have
this, especially on that side of town. And I had two wonderings for the superintendent.
The first one was, what attendance area for elementary schools would this be?
Unfortunately, this is Grafton School District as it's zoned.
It's zoned in the Grafton School District.
It is literally the corner of Dunwoody and Stockville. So we will heavily recruit for open enrollment,
but this is Grafton School District as it's currently.
Okay. I'm going to move to not allow this development. No, I'm kidding.
Okay. Then thank you for that. We probably should give them a heads up that that that's
coming then. Okay. Other other questions?
Just one question.
All the sec to the city engineer. I know in the past,
engineering has sort of been opposed to future cul-de-sacs. Are you on board with this? Is
engineering on board? For plowing reasons, I realize.
Yeah. I mean, we like to obviously eliminate all the cul-de-sacs as we can. We do at least
reduce the number. I don't, like I said, this is a pre-concept plan that kind of shows
roughly. I mean, I'm expecting that the engineering team will continue to work on layout. It might
be substantially like this when it's all said and done.
Yeah. The point is, and I should say Bob does generally reach out to the
fire chief, but we'll make sure that he's in love with it.
Okay. Thank you.
And then my only other request to the developer is if you could please meet with who your
older person would be and just review the plans in depth with them so they can understand it and
approach and support their neighbors.
Just one other comment with the subdivision that would be a benefit to the city, actually,
is for them to get a sewer connection, it would run through the park.
One park that is off of Highland, which would set up that park to eventually have bathroom.
Excellent. Mr. Reyer?
I was just going to say, could you just put me down as an abstention from the conversation on this one?
Yeah. Thank you.
Any other questions or concerns? There's no motion. It's just for review, and then that begins the process.
None? Excellent. I just noticed, I really appreciate that we have the time and temperature
over there, like we're running the Port Washington State Bank sign downtown. That's really cool.
All right. With that, Mr. Harris, you have a staff update.
I do. Real brief zoning code. The draft of the entirety of the code is on our website,
which is accessible right from the front page of City of Port Washington website, along with the
proposed zoning map. And we are working hard to tee this up and kick it off to Plan Commission in
October. And there will be multiple opportunities for the public to engage, review, and come to our
meetings as we're having those conversations, correct? Correct. And we would highly encourage
people to do that, because this was a long journey. This was part of our strategic plan to ensure that,
you know, we had an ordinance update and now a zoning code update, and we are officially in the
21st century. Mr. Reyer? Is that the public hearing in October or is it, how do you do that with the
city's adoption of the code? Is it like multiple? You know, it's a minimum. It's an ordinance. In
the end, it's an ordinance. So it's a minimum of one public hearing, but we have discretion to open
that up as well. Okay. And I just would remind everyone for context, we went to extraordinary
lengths to engage the community videos, social media opportunities come in. We reviewed, you know,
sections at a time every month. So sometimes people pay attention too late and hopefully we can
get them engaged at this point as well. So all right. Thank you, Mr. Harris. Thank you. Any other
questions for Mr. Harris or Bob? All right, friends, Mr. Reyer? There's a motion to adjourn. Is there a second?
I'll second. Seconded. All right. All in favor signify by saying aye.
Aye. Opposed? All right. Motion carries.