Comprehensive Plan Draft Amendments and Updates

Fall 2024 -- The Planning Commission is reviewing Chapter 5 (Agricultural, Natural, and Cultural Resources) of the Manitowish Waters Comprehensive Plan with an eye toward adding language relating to farmland preservation.  The 2009 Wisconsin Working Lands Initiative, enacted as WI Act 28, repealed and recreated the original 1977 Wisconsin Farmland Preservation  Program and related tax credits.  Wisconsin's Farmland Preservation Program (FPP) provides tools and incentives to help and encourage farmers and local governments to responsibly resist "sprawl", the development and fragmentation of agricultural lands that have been converted to other uses not in accordance with local municipal land use planning.  A further goal is to minimize land use conflicts.

Link to Chapter 5 draft update as of November 2024

Proposed text changes and additions have a red front color.

A public workshop, for the purposes of refining the draft text, is scheduled for December 3, 2024 @ 6:00 P.M. at the Manitowish Waters Airport Terminal Building.

Amendment 25-01 adopted via resolution January 7, 2025