Date: September 22, 2026
Time: 4:05 PM (called to order)
Location: City Hall Council Chambers, La Crosse, WI
Meeting Type: Special Meeting per Sec. 2-34 La Crosse Municipal Code
The City Plan Commission convened a special meeting with all commissioners present. The sole agenda item was a rezoning request to facilitate the development of a new Chipotle restaurant with a drive-thru facility at 4358 Mormon Coulee Road. The meeting lasted approximately five minutes, and the item was approved unanimously without public comment.
For those of you who are present online, we have somebody joined in with a read AI meeting notes. Hello, everyone. We're going to call this meeting to order at four. Oh five PM on Tuesday, September twenty second, twenty twenty six. Um, all commissioners are present, and I would like to acknowledge there are several that are virtual. Uh we'll do I need to do the approval of the minutes, or do we bypass that in this one? All right. Moving to our first agenda item twenty-six dash zero nine three two, an ordinance to amend subsection one fifteen dash one ten of the code of ordinances of the city of La Crosse by transferring certain property from the planned development district specific to the commercial district, allowing for the development of a restaurant with a drive-through facility at four thirty-five four, excuse me, forty-three fifty-eight, Mormon Cooley Road. Um, the applicant, which is uh representatives for the Chipotle, a new Chipotle uh restaurant franchise has created a satellite parcel out there in front of uh Aldi's and the former Shopco site. Um they are looking to begin break ground the next couple of weeks to start building uh their new Chipotle building, and they'll requesting it to be rezoned from plan development district to commercial so that they can have a little more flexibility and control of their own parcel and begin construction. Um, this process uh this uh project has gone through a design review committee for plan review. There's some minor um revisions they still need to make some of those plans, but for the most part, um, they are very close to doing their building permits. Uh, planning recommends approval. Thank you. Any questions for staff from commissioners? All right. Councilmember Stein. Move to approve. Motion approved by council member Stein. Is there a second? Second, Councilmember Newberry. All in favor, please signify by saying aye or raise another hand. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? See none of that motion carries.