Not Exactly
Greenescapist said:
All of my UW professors have been talking about this. I get the sense that the state rep who is sponsoring the legistlation is not taken very seriously. The governor is behind the law, too.
It's so silly since the law doesn't mandate anything except that communities need to have a plan by 2010. There is no requirement for what is in the plan. Just that a plan must be done. Sounds innocuous enough to me.
The "Law"...and I use quotes because Smart Growth was a rider to the biennial budget...dictates that there be
consistency amongst all plans a community relies upon...please read the following articles:
ARTICLE 1
ARTICLE 2
The "Law" mandates more than you may think, and the consistency determination is ulimately made by the Courts, not by the Planners. Smart Growth is all that it's cracked up to be...
WARNING !!! Thefollowing is the commentary of a lifelong resident of Wisconsin planner...
As an aside Greenscapist, please remember that you are in the liberal heart of the state, attending a liberal institution on par with UC-Berkley. You will tend to be informed of one viewpoint portrayed by academia, not by practitioners. Just because government says something is good doesn't mean it actually is.