The City of Manitowoc Plan Commission met on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 6:00 PM in Council Chambers and via Zoom. Six of eight members were present (Mayor Nickels, Koski, Hornung, Diedrich, Steinbrenner, Wetenkamp). The meeting lasted until 6:51 PM and included a public hearing on an official map amendment and a lengthy discussion on the Chapter 15 Zoning Code Rewrite. Routine items and certified survey maps were also addressed.
Are you ready? Sorry, Jenna you ready? Okay. All right. Well at six o'clock. We'll call the plan commission meeting to order at this time. All members except Alder Schlei and Greg Jagman are in attendance. Uh approval of minutes from September 15th. Motion to approve minutes of August 26, 2026 with uh edits as amended. And September 15, 2026. Those were good. Yeah. Okay, guys. Thank you. There's a motion. Is there a second? Yes. Second by Steinbrenner discussion. Seeing none, all those in favor. All right. Opposed. Motion carried unanimously. We have one public hearing. That is an amendment to the official map in the town of Manantwalk Rapids between Middle Road and Dutch Road. Paul. All right. The wizard behind the wall. Okay. So the area we have the yellow and black cross at or dash line. That would be the area of the official map amendment. It's basically the east-west running road to the north is middle road, the east-west road to the south is Dutch Road. This is roughly as a crow flies about a mile from the city limits. As you drive up Alverno and then turn left or west on to middle, it's about almost two miles. So that's the area. The request, well, and on the top two paragraphs on your report, that's a little bit new. Actually, I kind of did it for Brock's benefit because he's kind of new to official mapping. So that's a little bit of a background of like the state statutes, kind of what official mapping is, why we do it, stuff like that. So those first two paragraphs are just more background information on official mapping. Uh the request is from Kevin and Hannah Kore, and they're requesting an amendment to the official map to re remove a plan north-south street located along their western property line. Um the proposed removal extends from Middle Road to Dutch Road, and all other mapping official map designations in the area will remain unchanged. The Norr is re recently purchased uh the vacant property with plans to build a home, barn, and a horse arena. However, because of wetlands, you can kind of see them on the upper right. There's a big orange-brown color. That's wetlands basically centered on the property they purchased. Because with the wetlands, the house and structures have to be kind of offset to the west. Um so basically, and that's the high ground too that runs basically along that west property line in an official mapping. So when they go for a permit from the the town or the county, they have to look at it and kind of pretend that that official map is there and then base the setbacks off that official map. So therefore, with the official map, the setbacks, it just it it constricts the site. So that's basically the driving force for this request. Um the street site, the this area of the official map was added to the official map in 2003 as part of a citywide comprehensive uh mapping project.