Cardinal
Cyburbian
- Messages
- 10,080
- Points
- 34
"Charter Townships"
Townships in Wiscosnin are a unit of government left over from the 1800's, that are essentially rural. Most do not have a single full-time employee, and the county has jurisdiction over many aspects of governance in areas such as planning. In an ideal world, towns would remain rural. As land urbanizes, it would be annexed to a city, which would impose strict land regulations and connect it to city utilities, etc.
Town governments have chafed at the fact that they do not have the same powers as cities, while not realizing that they also do not have the same responsibilities. A bill has been introduced in the legislature to allow towns to become "charter towns." Among the things that would enable them to do:
- allow towns to prohibit cities from annexing land;
- eliminate city's right to extraterritorial plat review;
- exempt the town from county zoning ordinances;
- deny jurisdiction of the county assessor within the town;
- prohibit cities from acquiring land in the town, by any means or for any purpose;
- allow towns to deny cities the right to construct public utilities through the town lands;
- allow towns to create tax incremental financing districts.
Should this be called the "Kill Cities" or the "Sprawl Growth" legislation?
Townships in Wiscosnin are a unit of government left over from the 1800's, that are essentially rural. Most do not have a single full-time employee, and the county has jurisdiction over many aspects of governance in areas such as planning. In an ideal world, towns would remain rural. As land urbanizes, it would be annexed to a city, which would impose strict land regulations and connect it to city utilities, etc.
Town governments have chafed at the fact that they do not have the same powers as cities, while not realizing that they also do not have the same responsibilities. A bill has been introduced in the legislature to allow towns to become "charter towns." Among the things that would enable them to do:
- allow towns to prohibit cities from annexing land;
- eliminate city's right to extraterritorial plat review;
- exempt the town from county zoning ordinances;
- deny jurisdiction of the county assessor within the town;
- prohibit cities from acquiring land in the town, by any means or for any purpose;
- allow towns to deny cities the right to construct public utilities through the town lands;
- allow towns to create tax incremental financing districts.
Should this be called the "Kill Cities" or the "Sprawl Growth" legislation?