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The Altoona Plan Commission met on Tuesday, December 9, 2025, at 5:30 p.m. (agenda indicated 4:30 p.m.) in the Council Chambers. Commissioners present included Mayor Brendan Pratt, Sue Roll, Nicholas Hog, Dean Roth, and Bill Hepner. Absent: Ryan Looty and Matthew Beerin. Staff present: Planning Director Taylor Greenwell, Public Works Director Scott Quick, and City Clerk Cindy Bower. The meeting focused on preliminary consultations for two land division proposals: Phase II of the Lake Road Townhomes and a certified survey map in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction.
Planning Director Taylor Greenwell presented a consolidated discussion for both a Certified Survey Map (CSM) and a Preliminary Plat for Phase II of the Lake Road Townhomes, proposed by Tom Toy. The existing approved plan called for 12 units; the developer now seeks to reduce to 10 units and convert from townhome ownership (fee simple) to a condominium plat. The change requires dissolving existing lot lines via CSM and creating a condominium regime. The property is zoned River Prairie Mixed Use and is consistent with the comprehensive plan.
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Greenwell presented a proposal to create a 5-acre legal lot from a 38.68-acre unplatted parcel located in the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction (ETJ). The existing house and accessory buildings would be on the new lot; the remainder would be 33+ acres. The purpose is estate planning for the owner's son. Because the proposed lot is less than the 10-acre minimum required in the ETJ, the applicant will need an ETJ agreement with the city, which would require future annexation and utility connection when the city expands to that area.
Commissioners asked about the location, setbacks, and cost of future utilities. Staff noted the property is about 1.5 miles from the current city boundary. No development plans exist for the remaining acreage. The commission emphasized that this is a consultation only; formal CSM and ETJ agreement will come to the council later.
Somebody zooming. No. Nobody said that they're quite a good night to zoom. It will be. It's a pretty cool photo though. I'll give them that. Okay, we're ready. Ready? All right. Let's go ahead and call the all call to order the plan commission meeting of Tuesday, December 9th, 2025 at 5 30. We have roll call. Mayor Brendan Pratt. Here. Plan Commission member Sue Roll. Here. Nicholas Hog. Here. Dean Roth. Bill Hepner. Present. We have absent at this time, Ryan Looty and Matthew Beerin. We also have present Taylor Greenwell, Planning Director, Director of Public Works, Scott Quick, and Cindy Bower, City Clerk. We have a quorum. All right. Citizen participation period. I'll move to close. We have a motion and the second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries. Discuss consider approval of the minutes of the November 11th, 2025 record plan commission meeting. Our role make a motion to approve the minutes. Have no second. Okay, we have a motion and a second. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Motion carries. All right, new business preliminary consultation for a certified survey map, CSM on phase two of Lake Road Townhomes as proposed by Tom Toy, located off 2269 Lake Road, Altoona, Wisconsin. Thank you, Your Honor. So our ordinance uh currently requires any time there's gonna be any land division that before actually initiating the CSM process or the land division process, that there is a pl uh basically a discussion uh with the with the plan commission called the preliminary consultation to basically say like this is what's this is what's gonna be happening. Heads up, again, you do have you have any questions and just have just a general discussion about it if that seems warranted.