AMENDING CHAPTER 9, FLOODPLAIN ZONING ORDINANCE, (Petition 1-2016)

Committee Status: 
Approved
Budget Status: 
No Fiscal Impact
Decision Impact: 
Routine
FTE Impact: 
No
Funding Source: 
Other (see budget status)

Purpose

Adopt Chapter 9, - Wis. Stat. § 87.30 and Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter NR 116.05 requires that the floodway map, flood profiles, and floodway data table be adopted into Chapter 9, Sauk County Floodplain Zoning Ordinance.

 

Brian Cunningham drafted the resolution, he will make any changes and corrections.

 

Background

By not approving the Floodplain Zoning Ordinance and subsequent maps, Wisconsin Statutes give the authority to the DNR to adopt an ordinance superseding Sauk County’s and assess the cost necessary to perform such duties to Sauk County.

Resolution Files: 
Microsoft Office document icon chapter_9_implementing_ordinance_0.doc
Budget Status (Other/External Sources): 

Failure to adopt may have negative fiscal impacts upon the County including the ability to receive future grants from the DNR and being assessed the cost necessary to adopt the dam failure analyses for Sauk County. 

Resolution Body

ORDINANCE NO. ____ - 2016

 

AMENDING CHAPTER 9, FLOODPLAIN ZONING ORDINANCE,

(Petition 1-2016)

 

     WHEREAS, Sauk County has received from the Department of Natural Resources approved dam failure analyses for the Huey Duck Lake Dam and the Lee Lake Dam; and,

 

     WHEREAS, the dam failure analyses identified areas of potential dam failure inundation including the hydraulic shadow of the floodway designated areas; and,

 

     WHEREAS, Wis. Stat. § 87.30 and Wisconsin Administrative Code Chapter NR 116.05 requires that the floodway map, flood profiles, and floodway data table be adopted into Chapter 9, Sauk County Floodplain Zoning Ordinance; and,

    

     WHEREAS, Sauk County has administered Chapter 9, Floodplain Zoning Ordinance of the Sauk County Code of Ordinances since 1992, with previously adopted dam failure analyses for Honey Creek Structures No. 2, No. 3, & No. 4, Dutch Hollow Lake Dam, Lake Redstone Dam, Delton Dam, and the Lake Virginia Dam; and

 

     WHEREAS, the adoption of the dam breach analyses will prevent homes from being built in the hydraulic shadow and will therefore minimize the danger to life, health, and property if the dam fails; and,

 

     WHEREAS, Sauk County is aware that by not approving the Floodplain Zoning Ordinance and subsequent maps, Wisconsin Statutes give the authority to the DNR to adopt an ordinance superseding Sauk County’s and assess the cost necessary to perform such duties to Sauk County.

 

            WHEREAS,  it would also be the duty of Sauk County to administer and enforce the ordinance in the same manner as if the county had adopted it; and,

    

     WHEREAS, a public hearing was held by the Conservation, Planning and Zoning Committee on August 23, 2016; and,

 

     WHEREAS, your undersigned Committee has considered these amendments to Chapter 9 and believes that adoption of these amendments is in the best interest of the people of Sauk County.

 

     NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors met in regular session, that Chapter 9, Floodplain Zoning Ordinance, of the Sauk County Code of Ordinances,  is hereby amended to read as attached hereto as Appendix A, and shall be effective upon passage; and,

 

 

    

For consideration by the Sauk County Board of Supervisors on September 20, 2016.

 

Respectfully submitted,

 

CONSERVATION, PLANNING, AND ZONING COMMITTEE          

 

 

 

 

 

Requested Board Review Date: 
Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Committee Review 1 Date: 
Conservation, Planning and Zoning (CPZ) Committee
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