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The Plan Commission held a special session on October 1, 2026, to review final recommendations from consulting firm GRAEF on the City of Janesville’s Zoning Code Rewrite. The meeting focused on responding to 125 public comments, staff-identified revisions from stress-testing the regulations and the remapping process, and a detailed proposal for regulating data centers through a planned development district process. The commission also discussed the upcoming public open house on the draft zoning map scheduled for October 6. Five commissioners were present, establishing a quorum.
Good evening. I would like to call the Plan Commission meeting, the special session to order on Thursday, October 1st, 2026. First item on the agenda is roll call. Commissioner Nino. Commissioner Bowerman. Commissioner Cass. Here. Commissioner Williams. Here. Commissioner Vosco. Here. Commissioner Dongera. Here. And Commissioner Madere. Here. Five present. We have a quorum. Thank you. And you know, you should never give me the second item on the agenda, opening remarks, because I have a lot of opening remarks, but I do not believe it was meant to be for me. So I will defer to you, Dwayne, or any other staff member who might have opening remarks. Yes, I'd be happy to cover that. So yeah, the special plan commission meeting this evening is intended to focus on the uh what we hope to be and expect to be the final round of revisions to the uh update to the zonings, excuse me, City of Janesville's zoning ordinance, the zoning code rewrite. And specifically, we have representatives from the consulting firm uh that have been assisting us throughout this process, grave here this evening with Craig and Tim in attendance to kind of uh uh tag team uh the presentation at least highlighting the significant revisions and why those changes are being recommended. It essentially falls into two different categories. Uh one that responds directly directly to the uh the public comments that were received on the full draft version of the code that has been made publicly available for three months now. And the second uh is a category of changes that have been identified by staff working through the uh the draft regulations as we've applied those to uh potential projects and gone through the citywide remapping process and other clarifications and um uh I guess modifications of the code that we feel are appropriate for consideration of uh application of the code. So, with that, uh we also will like to touch on the upcoming public open house event, which is scheduled for next Tuesday on October 6th at the Headburg Public Library and talk a little bit about what that process will include or event will include, and uh and then next step. So I think without further explanation, that is the intent of the meeting, the discussion tonight. We're hopeful that the plan commission has uh questions and then at the very least could provide guidance direction to staff and and the consultant in terms of what should be incorporated into the code by way of uh potential revisions, and that's all I have. Thanks. Thank you. All right, are there any questions before we start the presentation? Can I ask are you just gonna do this on a page-by-page basis? We're gonna highlight uh the different things, but we're we'll be open to talking about any. Okay, because you know, because we do have a page by page, and then I take it on the the addendum there uh on the uh on data centers. We'll spend some time on it. Okay, good. All right, thanks for coming.