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The next item is Pledge of Allegiance. Please, 100 00:37:16,800 --> 00:37:42,240 John, it's okay. First on the agenda is a presentation from 101 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:47,760 the tourism group. 2026 tourism review. 102 00:37:47,760 --> 00:38:11,920 We have our own trolls. Let the clerk know that the tourism 103 00:38:11,920 --> 00:38:20,000 people are bribing the board. There's an ask here somewhere. 104 00:38:20,000 --> 00:38:34,160 Can I get one here? Hard by this troll. That is the world's smallest troll. 105 00:38:34,160 --> 00:38:39,440 Thank you. All right, good evening everybody. You know, this is the best time of the year 106 00:38:39,440 --> 00:38:45,720 to come up to the village board present what we got going on for the summer. Give you guys 107 00:38:45,720 --> 00:38:51,760 a little feedback on what we had for last year. Kind of bringing it to the end a little bit. 108 00:38:51,760 --> 00:38:57,360 So the big one that we've all been waiting for, we owe you to you the lineup this year 109 00:38:57,360 --> 00:39:03,200 for our concert series of dates have been set. So we got to let you know who's playing 110 00:39:03,200 --> 00:39:08,360 this year. So June 16th, Jay Mathis is a little bit of country for you. 111 00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:14,760 July 7th is going to be dirty boogie. Kind of a cover ban for all sorts of stuff. July 112 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:19,040 28th, five-card stud, the returning from our first concert that we had this year to come 113 00:39:19,040 --> 00:39:23,520 and join us. And then August 18th, Tripp and Billies is a date Matthew's tribute ban. 114 00:39:23,520 --> 00:39:26,920 We anticipate probably some good crowds of those, so we hope to see everybody out there 115 00:39:26,920 --> 00:39:35,440 for these. Turning out to be quite the events. Let's hope for nice weather. President DeGroote, 116 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:41,360 I have to say that I did wash my motorcycle yesterday, so I do apologize for the rain. 117 00:39:41,360 --> 00:39:45,560 Makes perfect sounds. It does, doesn't it today? Okay. So then obviously 118 00:39:45,560 --> 00:39:52,400 we're bringing Bluegrass concert back again, June 20th. That's a Saturday. Last year was 119 00:39:52,400 --> 00:39:56,560 by far the hottest day of the year that we decided to have a concert. We learned from 120 00:39:56,560 --> 00:39:59,120 that. We got, we're going to look at some different things in there and we're hoping 121 00:39:59,120 --> 00:40:03,880 we're kind of resetting everything with Bluegrass this year and we'll go from there. 122 00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:07,640 The last one that we have for this summer is Chalk the Walk. Again, that's our sidewalk 123 00:40:07,640 --> 00:40:12,760 chalk event. That's going to be August 22nd. Looking to kind of start building our art 124 00:40:12,760 --> 00:40:16,440 aspect of things coming up. So a couple of things that we've started 125 00:40:16,440 --> 00:40:23,080 been doing this year, we will be doing a marketing, we are working with a marketing firm to start 126 00:40:23,080 --> 00:40:30,280 marketing strategies within the village among pleasant starting next month. So we have hired 127 00:40:30,280 --> 00:40:34,440 a firm that's going to start walking us through that strategies to start not only marketing 128 00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:42,760 tourism but also the village among pleasant. We've also went into a analytics software 129 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:48,280 that we got a license for this year that's helping us kind of develop where people are 130 00:40:48,280 --> 00:40:52,600 coming from, what our numbers are looking at like that to our concerts and stuff like that. 131 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:56,840 To give you an example, we can start pulling some of those data to kind of give us numbers 132 00:40:56,840 --> 00:41:01,880 for our concerts. Giving you, for example, Dancing Queen, our last concert last year, 133 00:41:01,880 --> 00:41:07,800 we took at the 7 p.m. mark. This data is being collected by cell phone data that is within the 134 00:41:07,800 --> 00:41:17,240 geofence of the park. We had about 2,400 people. So you know our concerts are starting to get 135 00:41:17,240 --> 00:41:22,760 there. We're seeing at least 1,000 to 1,200 people on average to our concerts this past year. 136 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:28,680 So we're hoping that those numbers stay going as what they have. Some of the other 137 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:34,520 software that this is giving us is also breaking down and we just pulled some of this data today 138 00:41:34,520 --> 00:41:39,160 for some of our tourism reports and stuff that will be presented to the commission coming up. 139 00:41:39,160 --> 00:41:43,560 But it's breaking down a little bit of what we're seeing from like visitor spending and 140 00:41:43,560 --> 00:41:53,320 stuff like that for 2025. It broke it down in the two categories for people that were visiting us, 141 00:41:53,320 --> 00:41:59,080 physically going into our businesses and visiting us at about roughly about 50 miles or so. And then 142 00:41:59,080 --> 00:42:04,680 there was the visitor from 150 miles plus. So for a visitor coming in about 50 miles or so, 143 00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:09,880 we're looking at that kind of spending at about 40.6 million dollars that's coming back into the 144 00:42:09,880 --> 00:42:15,400 village. Either through restaurants or stuff like that. For people a little bit over 150 145 00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:22,200 was 24.2 million. Give you an example from last year those are I'm sorry that was for 2025. 2024 146 00:42:22,200 --> 00:42:28,680 saw about 32.5 million dollars coming back into our community. So what a great segue 147 00:42:29,480 --> 00:42:36,680 that comes into to the next thing that we discussed here in Cowar earlier. Okay. So 148 00:42:37,640 --> 00:42:46,360 as we explained to you earlier, we had the opportunity and seized it to commission the artist Thomas 149 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:52,200 Dambo to do one of his renderings of a troll in the village I'm all pleasant. So to kind of give 150 00:42:52,200 --> 00:43:03,800 you a little bit of the back history of it. This idea wasn't fine. It was from some wonderful people 151 00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:09,800 that is in our community. And I wanted to highlight them because it shows the importance of what our 152 00:43:09,800 --> 00:43:15,720 community does to bring forth to us. Now, there's a little bit of a bias didn't I will say, but 153 00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:20,760 you have these wonderful people in our community in our seats tonight. My parents, Tom and Bonnie 154 00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:25,080 brought this idea and said, Hey, I think this is something one pleasant needs. I said, Yeah, 155 00:43:25,080 --> 00:43:31,240 let me take a look at it. And then my wife came and said, Hey, I think we need to have this. I said, 156 00:43:31,240 --> 00:43:35,240 you're right. And then I received the wonderful email from Bobby Schmidt, who's a friend of ours 157 00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:41,400 and sits on our police fire commission says, Hey, right after Wabatoza developed our showcase, 158 00:43:41,400 --> 00:43:47,560 there says, Hey, I think this is great from all pleasant. So, well, you can't say no to your mom 159 00:43:47,560 --> 00:43:52,440 and dad, right? Let alone your wife and your friends. So let's do a little research into it. 160 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:57,560 So October, we went up to Wabatoza. Wabatoza currently has one of the trolls up there. 161 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,240 Mama Rosa, highly encouraged you guys to go up. They have a beautiful park that they 162 00:44:01,960 --> 00:44:06,840 developed in and around in there met with their tourism people in October. We did a site visit. 163 00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:12,120 And as we explained earlier, all of the funds that they used for that project for the troll itself 164 00:44:12,120 --> 00:44:18,600 was tourism funds that the park the park development was on their plans to utilize 165 00:44:18,600 --> 00:44:26,200 their tax base to develop this thing. So after we went to Wabatoza, we kind of looked and said, 166 00:44:26,200 --> 00:44:29,880 okay, what is your impact? What are those numbers that you're looking at that you're seeing? 167 00:44:29,880 --> 00:44:34,360 At that time, they were still getting a little bit more data, but she was able to provide the 168 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:41,000 data, which we provided you earlier, that from May 28th of 2025, until the end of March of this 169 00:44:41,000 --> 00:44:49,880 year, they had 192,000 people that visited that park from 48 different states, including DC, 170 00:44:49,880 --> 00:44:53,560 with an impact financially into the community of roughly 13.4 million dollars. 171 00:44:55,000 --> 00:45:00,520 So, you know, we kind of looked and said, I think we can do that. So we brought it to the 172 00:45:00,520 --> 00:45:05,720 Tourism Commission. Tourism Commission said, hey, this is a great idea. Let's do it. We allocated 173 00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:11,000 the funds that we have for the Tourism Commission that we have generated through the room tax over 174 00:45:11,000 --> 00:45:14,920 the years, and we did have some in the reserve or in our funds that we were able to utilize that. 175 00:45:15,720 --> 00:45:22,280 So we presented, after the commission said, yes, we have a, we want to allocate those funds to it. 176 00:45:22,840 --> 00:45:29,960 I worked with our fabulous team of communications that developed a presentation to the artist, 177 00:45:29,960 --> 00:45:37,800 Thomas Dambo, to highlight the village of Mount Pleasant. Now, Sean, Ryan, he's in here somewhere, 178 00:45:37,800 --> 00:45:43,560 at least, Ollie. She's, unfortunately, I hear tonight, and I sat down and developed what 179 00:45:43,720 --> 00:45:48,200 Mount Pleasant is, what it looks like, what our park system is, what is our community all about, 180 00:45:48,200 --> 00:45:52,120 and with them and their assistance, and we couldn't have done it without them, 181 00:45:53,000 --> 00:45:59,480 we submitted our application, and they loved the concept, loved our community, and said, we're 182 00:45:59,480 --> 00:46:09,160 coming. So with that being said, we are now on the verge of bringing in a Thomas Dambo Cho that we 183 00:46:09,160 --> 00:46:13,080 can pretty much guarantee we'll have an impact within, not only Mount Pleasant, 184 00:46:13,080 --> 00:46:19,080 but within Nursing County, that I think we'll be presently surprised. There's currently one 185 00:46:19,080 --> 00:46:25,240 in La Vatosa, which is a, we'll use the second one in Wisconsin. There is several up into Detroit 186 00:46:25,240 --> 00:46:30,680 Lakes, Minnesota, and then we are actually making a site visit on Thursday down to Clinton, Iowa, 187 00:46:30,680 --> 00:46:36,360 where they have three that are being finished as we speak. We've spoken to both of those communities 188 00:46:37,080 --> 00:46:43,720 of the impact that they had. Detroit Lakes, where they didn't keep as good records of their 189 00:46:44,760 --> 00:46:49,160 anticipated crowds, but they were also looking at well over 100,000 people visiting within 190 00:46:49,160 --> 00:46:56,200 probably their first year to that. And then we'll meet with the people in Clinton on Thursday to 191 00:46:56,200 --> 00:47:01,640 talk a little bit more. This is Mount Pleasant's event. This is happening in Mount Pleasant, 192 00:47:01,640 --> 00:47:05,880 but this is going to be Racine County. Our goal on this is to make sure that everybody's 193 00:47:05,880 --> 00:47:09,800 included, because we're going to need supplies. We're going to need reclaimed wood. We're going 194 00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:19,160 to need volunteers. This is going to be a project to who knows what is going to bring, but once 195 00:47:19,160 --> 00:47:25,000 everything gets approved, we will be getting more information out to the trustees here, so you have 196 00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:29,480 an understanding of what kind of materials that we will be looking for, but it will be reclaimed 197 00:47:29,560 --> 00:47:35,640 wood, anything left over. Building supplies, stuff like that, we'll be working with more of them to 198 00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:44,120 get that taken care of. So we got a busy year ahead of us. I think this is going to be really 199 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:50,920 an impact that we have making, again, Mount Pleasant a destination for not only day trippers, but 200 00:47:51,000 --> 00:48:01,800 for people coming in outside of here. The aspect of Thomas Dambel, the influences that he has on 201 00:48:01,800 --> 00:48:09,800 the recyclable aspects of nature and all that stuff is unbelievable. I highly, if you're on 202 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,080 Facebook, please look for some of their Facebook pages. We have people that are in the audience 203 00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:23,800 today. Former interim chief Nitter has taken his family and gone through several places 204 00:48:23,800 --> 00:48:30,520 throughout the country. People travel to do this. People travel to come into these communities 205 00:48:30,520 --> 00:48:36,440 to see this. So it will not be unusual for us to see people from probably all over the world 206 00:48:36,440 --> 00:48:44,680 coming into our community and also visiting Wabatosa. This will be a good partnership with Wabatosa 207 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,720 because if you're going to come to Wabatosa, you're going to come to Mount Pleasant. If you 208 00:48:47,720 --> 00:48:52,360 go to Mount Pleasant, you're going to go to Wabatosa. So it's on the consent agenda tonight. We're 209 00:48:52,360 --> 00:48:58,840 looking forward to being approved. We have better hotels than Wabatosa has, don't we? We do. You 210 00:48:58,840 --> 00:49:05,400 know, our hotels are really starting to become top notch up here and we're going to be filling 211 00:49:05,400 --> 00:49:10,840 those hotels. Jim, go ahead. Sure. I just want to make it clear for the record and for all the 212 00:49:10,920 --> 00:49:16,200 people out there that are watching. This is not from the tax base. This is a tourism commission 213 00:49:16,200 --> 00:49:26,520 money. So money comes from the room tax and it's meant to be spent in a way that puts beds and heads. 214 00:49:26,520 --> 00:49:34,520 So you keep that going? Heads and beds. Heads and beds. Thank you. So to keep that cycle going. So 215 00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:39,880 as I said earlier, this is probably really the first big project where I'm going, 216 00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:45,400 this is truly going to accomplish that. And again, it's not the taxpayer dollar. It's 217 00:49:45,400 --> 00:49:53,480 corralia we have from the tourism commission. Oh, I want to, one of the, he's Thomas Dambos 218 00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,880 from Denmark. He is from Denmark. Yes. And so I think it's really interesting that 219 00:49:57,880 --> 00:50:03,560 with our cringle history here in this area, how this ties in because we are a Danish community. 220 00:50:03,560 --> 00:50:08,600 Well, we're an Italian community with some Danes in here. There's a lot of Danish people. 221 00:50:09,080 --> 00:50:13,000 First and foremost Italian, but we have a few Danes too. That's what you meant to say. 222 00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:19,080 You know, Thomas's trolls are all over the world. His goal is to try to get one in 223 00:50:19,080 --> 00:50:23,880 every state of the United States. But if you get an opportunity to go to his website and take a 224 00:50:23,880 --> 00:50:30,840 look at the map, they are speckled throughout the entire world. So this is, in essence, 225 00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:34,600 putting Mount Pleasant on the international stage. Go ahead. 226 00:50:35,080 --> 00:50:40,760 That's a good question. How does Wauwatosa know where all these people came from? 227 00:50:40,760 --> 00:50:45,880 So the software, um, place where AI is a software analytic software that we have 228 00:50:46,760 --> 00:50:53,320 entered into a, or a contract with them. What it does is it takes, um, cell phone data 229 00:50:54,440 --> 00:51:02,120 and that you put in like a specific location, people that are coming in will, will register 230 00:51:02,120 --> 00:51:07,240 their cell phone now. It's not like a big brother or anything. We don't know who you are. We don't 231 00:51:07,240 --> 00:51:13,000 know. The only thing we know is that it tracks, um, where they're coming in from. So like there, 232 00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:17,080 there are zip codes and stuff, but it's through cell phone data. So that's how they're getting 233 00:51:17,080 --> 00:51:24,120 that accurate. So it's not, um, it's not, I would say made up. It is like physically, 234 00:51:24,120 --> 00:51:28,520 these are registering showing showing that in the amount they spend is more some kind of a 235 00:51:29,000 --> 00:51:36,040 formula that they, you know, has been created over time. Yep. Yeah. So we'll, we'll take as, 236 00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:41,240 as we get closer to like starting to collect our data, we'll find out what the local tourism 237 00:51:41,240 --> 00:51:47,800 thing is. Um, I think I did roughly right now an average person is, you know, if you're coming 238 00:51:47,800 --> 00:51:53,000 here for the day, you could spend anywhere between 70 and $90 a day. If you're staying 239 00:51:53,000 --> 00:51:59,160 in overnight, anywhere is between $116 and $220, and, you know, for your stay. Um, so what we'll do 240 00:51:59,160 --> 00:52:04,280 is we'll take that, you know, those, those numbers, find out how many people came into a specific 241 00:52:04,280 --> 00:52:10,680 location that you can multiply and get those numbers from that. Is that, uh, geofencing? Yep. 242 00:52:10,680 --> 00:52:14,760 Okay. Yep. The kind of stuff you find in data centers. 243 00:52:15,640 --> 00:52:20,600 Right. I just heard a story on the radio today, actually. Uh, go ahead. 244 00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,880 Were you yawning? Yes, I have a question. So if mama Rosa is in Wauwatosa, 245 00:52:28,520 --> 00:52:33,480 do we get the baby or the kid or do we have any input on who are tying? Because that'd be a 246 00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:38,040 nice natural tie and you're going to want to see both. Yeah, I don't know. So the artist has, 247 00:52:38,040 --> 00:52:42,120 obviously we have some input, but at the end of the day, he's the one that has those decisions, 248 00:52:42,120 --> 00:52:48,760 but, you know, from what I've heard and especially speaking with his team, they're really easy to 249 00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:54,360 work with. Um, and definitely look for everybody's input, but we will, when we're down there Thursday, 250 00:52:54,360 --> 00:53:00,200 we'll have a really one on one idea of what, what we're getting into because, uh, we'll be able to 251 00:53:00,200 --> 00:53:04,760 meet with our team and the Iowa team to discuss that more. And then is there going to be like a 252 00:53:04,760 --> 00:53:10,440 big event unveiling? Well, of course. And can you do events around it? Like, could somebody rent 253 00:53:10,440 --> 00:53:15,960 that space and have a party theme with that in it? Or is it only for public? No, it's only for 254 00:53:15,960 --> 00:53:21,400 public. Yeah. So it would be placed within, you know, two places that we've designated with the team 255 00:53:21,960 --> 00:53:26,600 to be determined later on when they come in there. It is open to the public. It's not restricted. It 256 00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:30,840 won't be rented or anything like that. So there's going to be no admission fee. Nope. Okay. 257 00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:39,800 I know that there's, um, well, based on your answer to Gina's question, you know, that we have 258 00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:46,440 some input in it. And I know that there's a press release that's going to be coming out regarding 259 00:53:46,440 --> 00:53:53,880 this. But at some point in time, putting out some kind of a doodle pull, you know, would be 260 00:53:53,880 --> 00:53:59,560 interesting just to get the constituents thoughts on what they might want to see in a troll. 261 00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:04,280 Yeah. And I know, and that's one of the things that we'll discuss when we go down there, 262 00:54:05,240 --> 00:54:11,320 to understand like their visions and stuff like that. When we went up to Wabatosa, they were, 263 00:54:12,200 --> 00:54:18,520 they walked the site and you'll see there's a video, if you go to discover Wabatosa, 264 00:54:18,520 --> 00:54:23,720 they did a video on the fact that he was walking through their DPW lot, came across 265 00:54:24,280 --> 00:54:29,320 old pole, old light poles that they took out and he goes, I want to use these make it work. 266 00:54:30,200 --> 00:54:35,640 And they did. They refurbished them. They ran power to it and stuff. So, you know, he does have 267 00:54:35,640 --> 00:54:40,360 a vision of what he's looking for with the input of what we have around here. So it's going to be 268 00:54:40,360 --> 00:54:47,080 pretty exciting. Well, you've got a lot of constructions, materials left over from a lot of new 269 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:51,720 construction. I think so going on. Yeah. Believe me, every time I run, drive around the village, 270 00:54:51,720 --> 00:54:55,800 you're looking going, hey, we could use that or, you know, we got that place there, stuff like that. 271 00:54:55,800 --> 00:55:02,120 So we'll definitely be coming up with wish lists and stuff for everybody to get involved with. 272 00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:09,240 The thing that really sticks in my head is what you mentioned about 48 states, you know, have 273 00:55:09,240 --> 00:55:15,880 come and visited Wabatosa. And so, you know, clearly there's a national following and indeed 274 00:55:15,880 --> 00:55:22,040 international. Correct. You know, so Peter, so there really are people that geek out about this 275 00:55:22,680 --> 00:55:28,520 and, you know, we'll certainly visit us. Well, and they make a pilgrim out of it too. You know, 276 00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:34,040 there's been, we've watched some of the things on Facebook that are like, hey, we're coming down 277 00:55:34,040 --> 00:55:37,800 this way. Is there any trolls nearby or we're hitting this one today? We're hitting that one. 278 00:55:38,680 --> 00:55:44,920 Talking with Minnesota, talking with Iowa, these are all plans that, you know, we want to see how 279 00:55:44,920 --> 00:55:53,800 we can incorporate them in all the different states of how do we market from that standpoint of 280 00:55:53,800 --> 00:55:58,440 go to Iowa, go to Wisconsin, go to Minnesota. It's all in that succession. So I think this is 281 00:55:58,440 --> 00:56:03,320 this is going to be bigger than what we've ever imagined. It's the troll trail. The troll trail. 282 00:56:03,320 --> 00:56:08,600 The bourbon trail. Correct. And honestly, Nancy, that's one of the things that was just coming up 283 00:56:08,600 --> 00:56:13,640 in the conversations. The people in Minnesota and people in Iowa are very excited to have another 284 00:56:13,640 --> 00:56:22,120 one coming in here. Yep. So since you did say 48 states, does that mean that we haven't had 285 00:56:22,120 --> 00:56:27,480 any visitors from Alaska or Hawaii yet? Not yet, but we can get there. I think that should be our 286 00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:33,400 goal. Yeah, it should be. It should. So that's a tourism and a nutshell for this year. We appreciate 287 00:56:33,400 --> 00:56:38,600 everything that the not only the commission has done with this project and they need to be recognized 288 00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:43,400 too. They've been very supportive with all the tourism, the aspects that we brought into the 289 00:56:43,480 --> 00:56:47,480 village among pleasant, I think with this and with our marketing strategy, you're going to start 290 00:56:47,480 --> 00:56:52,760 seeing some more things coming through. And we appreciate the support from the village board and 291 00:56:52,760 --> 00:57:00,520 everybody too. Thank you, Matt. Great news. Good job. Okay, let's move on to public comment. 292 00:57:01,240 --> 00:57:05,240 Members of the public are welcome to provide comments on any matter. Please fill out a 293 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:10,440 comment form and the president will recognize you. Use the microphone and state your name and 294 00:57:10,440 --> 00:57:13,880 address for the public record. Comments are limited to three minutes. 295 00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:18,760 Can we hear from Jim Kootz? 296 00:57:22,600 --> 00:57:28,520 You know, the drill, sir, name and address for the record. Yes, sir. James Kootz, 6812, 297 00:57:28,520 --> 00:57:37,080 Green Ridge Drive, Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. I live on a cul-vis-ac. In 2019, we purchased 298 00:57:37,160 --> 00:57:42,760 this land and we noticed that a cul-vis-ac was in our front yard. It was never on the registered 299 00:57:42,760 --> 00:57:52,360 deed of Mount Pleasant decided to just take more road. I have pictures from 1965 till today and 300 00:57:52,360 --> 00:57:58,360 the road is double itself. Now, a cul-vis-ac is 50-50 from center of road on both sides, 301 00:57:58,360 --> 00:58:04,760 correct? Not a D pattern into my front yard, which every time I try to apply for a permit to do 302 00:58:04,760 --> 00:58:08,840 something in my property, I have to pull off the back of my property because nobody even 303 00:58:08,840 --> 00:58:14,120 a village has no clue where the lot line is in the front from the road in the Eastman whatsoever. 304 00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:21,560 Then you guys sent a bill. Well, you didn't send a bill. You came to my house in a letter with an 305 00:58:21,560 --> 00:58:27,560 attorney tell me that you were going to purchase the land. I said, it's not for sale for four grand. 306 00:58:27,560 --> 00:58:32,920 I have that paperwork. Then you decided to tell me that it was going to be taken from me on the 307 00:58:32,920 --> 00:58:38,760 randomment domain. Well, I got an attorney involved and then you guys decided to put the sewer project 308 00:58:38,760 --> 00:58:43,880 on the other side of the road, the south side of Green Ridge Drive. And then when that was done, 309 00:58:43,880 --> 00:58:49,000 I came back in here and asked what we could do to retrieve my front property. I was told, 310 00:58:49,000 --> 00:58:52,840 well, we need that cul-vis-ac for the dump garbage trucks and everybody to turn around. 311 00:58:53,560 --> 00:58:59,640 There's not another cul-vis-ac in Mount Pleasant like I have in my front yard. I've asked since 312 00:58:59,640 --> 00:59:08,360 2019 of April to work nowhere. Now, you guys chose to put the sewer line on the south side of 313 00:59:08,360 --> 00:59:13,080 the road. Here it is now two and a half years later and I still haven't had my front yard. 314 00:59:13,880 --> 00:59:20,520 I want my front yard where I will remove the asphalt that's on that property of mine that I own 315 00:59:20,520 --> 00:59:25,560 and I pay taxes on. You don't give me a tax credit. You did not give the other people a tax credit. 316 00:59:25,640 --> 00:59:31,240 I want my yard back. We need to set up some kind of meeting that we can all sit down. 317 00:59:31,240 --> 00:59:34,760 I can show you all the paperwork in another meeting. The last time we tried to get a meeting, 318 00:59:34,760 --> 00:59:41,080 you said it was sewer. It's not sewer. It's my front yard. I want it back. It's a real simple. 319 00:59:43,240 --> 00:59:45,560 Thank you for your comments. Thank you. 320 00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:50,520 Anybody else sign up for public comment? 321 00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:59,720 Go on. What's going twice? Okay. With that, we can end the public comment and we can go to 322 00:59:59,720 --> 01:00:05,960 the consent agenda. Mr. President, I make a motion to approve the items on the consent agenda as 323 01:00:05,960 --> 01:00:13,880 presented. I hear a motion and a second. All in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? 324 01:00:14,600 --> 01:00:17,800 So the consent agenda is approved. 325 01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:25,160 So we have public meeting. Public hearing. 326 01:00:27,400 --> 01:00:40,040 Public hearing for ordinance 2-2026, zoning map amendment for 36-49, late through Babinew, ZMA26-01, 327 01:00:41,000 --> 01:00:46,120 zoning public hearing notice, ZMA. Well, that's the attachment. Okay. 328 01:00:48,360 --> 01:00:53,400 Following a brief presentation by staff, I'll open the public hearing. If you wish to speak, 329 01:00:53,400 --> 01:00:59,400 please fill out a public hearing form, which is on a table near the entrance. Once recognized, 330 01:00:59,400 --> 01:01:03,800 speakers should come to the podium and identify themselves with their name and address. Please 331 01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:09,720 speak clearly into the microphone. Speakers must direct all discussions towards the board. 332 01:01:09,720 --> 01:01:15,400 I will not allow interchange between members of the audience and the petitioner. We request 333 01:01:15,400 --> 01:01:20,520 that you not interfere with nor interject comments while another person has the floor. 334 01:01:21,400 --> 01:01:27,480 This is to ensure respectful and orderly process. Please keep all comments on the particular 335 01:01:27,480 --> 01:01:33,320 item before the board and at most five minutes. Finally, to ensure a focused and productive hearing, 336 01:01:34,040 --> 01:01:41,240 please turn off or mute your electronic devices. Who's speaking towards us? Robin. 337 01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:46,520 Yes, it's me. You guys get stuck with me for the next few months because Sam is out on 338 01:01:46,520 --> 01:01:53,640 paternity leave with his new son. Don't get a big head over it. I definitely, you know, 339 01:01:53,640 --> 01:02:00,840 just I have power. It's more like the extra phone calls and emails is what I have. 340 01:02:00,840 --> 01:02:05,560 Let's say Robin. Yes, let's go. All right, so for ZMA, 341 01:02:07,240 --> 01:02:15,160 2601, 3649, Lathrop Avenue, this is an application to amend the zoning 342 01:02:15,160 --> 01:02:20,840 classification from RE, which is residential state to RL, low density residential. 343 01:02:21,800 --> 01:02:26,280 The applicant wishes to construct 400 square foot outbuilding on his property, 344 01:02:26,280 --> 01:02:31,800 which will increase the impervious surface percentage of the property from approximately 345 01:02:31,800 --> 01:02:39,880 33% to 35%. Pour our code on Lathrop building regulations to limit on impervious surface in 346 01:02:39,880 --> 01:02:47,880 the RE district is 25%. However, that limit was added to the code via ordinance in summer of 2025. 347 01:02:47,880 --> 01:02:54,280 So not even a full year ago. So the existing structures are legal nonconforming. So that's 348 01:02:54,280 --> 01:03:03,880 totally fine that this 33%. The limit in the RL zone is 50%. The mass plan indicates residential 349 01:03:03,880 --> 01:03:11,880 for the property and the near bar parcels in the area are both RE and RL zoning. This sort of kind 350 01:03:11,880 --> 01:03:21,400 of mean, yeah, those staff and recommend and the planned commission also recommended to approve 351 01:03:21,400 --> 01:03:28,360 the ordinance to 26 to the village board. It was basically I was saying that this is a very 352 01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:33,800 minor kind of improvement, but unfortunately, the only way to address it without seeking a variance 353 01:03:33,800 --> 01:03:43,000 was to request a zoning change. This would have been no problem a month a year ago. So they have 354 01:03:43,000 --> 01:03:49,400 to request the zoning change in order to do it. We're looking for ways to basically alleviate or 355 01:03:49,400 --> 01:03:55,880 mitigate going over that limit, such as stormwater retention, without the need to have a public 356 01:03:55,880 --> 01:04:01,240 hearing and zoning change for every time. So that is it. That's my presentation. 357 01:04:04,040 --> 01:04:11,640 This would be the time for me to invite the public to speak. I have no reason to end up 358 01:04:11,640 --> 01:04:17,640 having heard anything from the clerk. Anybody here wishing to speak on this particular item? 359 01:04:17,720 --> 01:04:25,240 That hasn't signed up going once going twice. So they're being, you know, nobody wishing to speak 360 01:04:25,240 --> 01:04:33,720 on that. I can close the public hearing. And is there a motion? Mr. President, I make a motion 361 01:04:33,720 --> 01:04:42,040 to approve ordinance two dash 2026 for a zoning map amendment at 3649 Leithrop Avenue as presented. 362 01:04:42,920 --> 01:04:49,880 Second. So the motioner and the seconder, since you both sit on the plan commission, 363 01:04:49,880 --> 01:04:59,800 your thoughts? Right. Thank you, Mr. President. I think this is very typical of some older lots 364 01:04:59,800 --> 01:05:06,680 in the community that we're larger to begin with. And so when we redid the zoning code, they ended 365 01:05:06,680 --> 01:05:12,120 up with that RE designation on them, where they're in neighborhoods that are really, 366 01:05:12,120 --> 01:05:18,040 if they were to be rezoned as a whole today, we'd look at the RL. When you look at the site plan, 367 01:05:18,680 --> 01:05:26,280 obviously, they enjoy their property. They have sheds and their gardeners and the pool and so 368 01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:32,680 forth. So they wanted to add an outbuilding, which seemed reasonable. And staff was able to use our 369 01:05:32,680 --> 01:05:38,840 code to come up with a way that was amenable. I think the big thing is the big question we had 370 01:05:38,840 --> 01:05:44,920 and Robin answered it was they're adding more impervious surface. So in an existing neighborhood, 371 01:05:44,920 --> 01:05:51,320 we always have to be careful that they're not now sending more stormwater offsite than 372 01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:58,200 then would be reasonable or that the neighborhood can take. But all in all, the zoning is appropriate 373 01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:03,720 for the neighborhood as well as for their future use. And that's all I have. 374 01:06:05,160 --> 01:06:07,080 How big is the outbuilding that they want to put in? 375 01:06:09,240 --> 01:06:14,920 400 square feet. 400 square feet, right? Yeah, it's basically the size of a two car garage, 376 01:06:14,920 --> 01:06:20,440 but it doesn't have any additional driveway access or anything like that. So it's for 377 01:06:21,720 --> 01:06:26,040 lawn tools, stuff like that, not cars. So it's on the order of a pole barn? 378 01:06:27,000 --> 01:06:30,360 Yeah, probably a little bit smaller than the average pole barn in Mount Pleasant that's 379 01:06:30,360 --> 01:06:34,840 being constructed these days. But yeah, Ron, did you have anything? 380 01:06:35,720 --> 01:06:42,040 No, again, my colleague, Washburn, she said everything that we discussed at the planning 381 01:06:42,040 --> 01:06:47,960 commission and we're good with that. There actually was a comment from one of the commissioners that 382 01:06:47,960 --> 01:06:53,480 did the proposed garage because they're calling it a garage. It's really an outbuilding in my 383 01:06:53,480 --> 01:06:58,280 eyes in terms of the way it's going to be used. Should it have its own driveway or 384 01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:03,880 be consolidated? And the intent of the map that site plan they showed us was for no 385 01:07:03,880 --> 01:07:08,760 additional driveway access at all to the building. So it's a storage building. They have a pool. 386 01:07:08,760 --> 01:07:15,160 They probably have chairs and things that need to come inside. And the current garage they have 387 01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:18,200 is a bit small. Okay. 388 01:07:20,120 --> 01:07:30,200 So in the matter then of ordinance 2-2026, ZMA26-01, roll call please. 389 01:07:31,320 --> 01:07:41,640 Ventrini? Aye. Pollack? Aye. Anastacio? Aye. Batia? Aye. Washburn? Aye. Caris? Aye. DeGroote? Aye. So that motion carries. 390 01:07:42,360 --> 01:07:44,600 We have nothing else. 391 01:07:46,120 --> 01:07:50,920 Was that covering both of the items? What's that? Yeah. Was that two different things? 392 01:07:50,920 --> 01:07:58,680 No. Well it was the ordinance approval and the zoning map approval. 393 01:08:03,720 --> 01:08:10,440 Waiting for a motion. Oh we just love it here so much. Why would we ever want to move to adjourn? 394 01:08:10,440 --> 01:08:18,680 To adjourn. Move to adjourn. Okay so we have a move to adjourn. Second. Okay all in favor. Aye. 395 01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,120 We stand adjourned. Thank you very much everybody.