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UPDATE TO THE LAND USE PLAN

The Village of Twin Lakes is undertaking an update to the Land Use Section of the Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan: 2005-2024 adopted in March 2005. The original Comprehensive Plan was a community wide effort undertaken jointly with the Town of Randall. As part of ongoing review and to ensure that the Village is ready to comply with State Law, the Community Growth Commission has been working with residents, the Village Planner, and Village Staff to prepare a proposed update to the Land Uses Plan and Land Use Map in order to improve its effectiveness and flexibility for its use a docuement to guide future development in the Village.

The Twin Lakes Plan Commission will meet at 7:00pm in the Twin Lakes Village Hall to review the proposed updated documents. Upon recommendation of approval by the Plan Commission, the proposal will be reviewed by the Village Board at a Public Hearing scheduled for Monday, December 21, 2009 as part of the Regular Village BOard meeting beginning at 7:00PM in the VIllage Hall.

The Village is updating the Land Use map in all of the area within its planning jurisdiction. This area includes not only the land within the Village limits but also all land within an area outside the Village limits called the extraterritorial planning jurisdiction. This area is defined in State Law as the area within a mile and a half of the Village limits but not more than half the distance to a neighboring incorporated municipality, which, in Twin Lakes ' case refers to Silver Lake and Genoa City . The area of Twin Lakes ' extraterritorial planning jurisdiction includes nearly all of the Town of Randall as well as portions of the Towns of Salem and Wheatland in Kenosha County and the Town of Bloomfield in Walworth County .

ORIGINAL PLAN

The Village of Twin Lakes partnered with the Town of Randall to develop a Joint Comprehensive Plan meeting the requirements of Wisconsin's Smart Growth Law. The plan, which was developed at a number of bi-monthly meetings beginning in October 2002, was approved by the Twin Lakes Village Board on March 14, 2005. The Comprehensive Plan is under regular review. The responsiblity to review the Plan and to facilitiate its implementation, interpretation and update is vested in the Community Growth Commission.

The adopted version of the Town of Randall and VIllage of Twin Lakes Smart Growth Comprehensive Plan: 2005-2024 is made available below. In addition, copies of the Plan may be reviewed at the Village Hall or the Town Hall or at the Randall/Twin Lakes branch of the Community Library located at 110 South Lake Avenue in Twin Lakes (Near Subway).

The Joint Comprehensive Plan is available in Adobe Reader (all sections and maps) format.

You will need a free Acrobat reader to view the Adobe files. Click here to download a reader.