The City of Monroe Plan Commission met on March 11, 2026, at 5:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. The meeting addressed three main items: a zoning text amendment to allow more multi-family units by right in the MR-15 district, parking requirement reductions in NMU, MR-15, and MR-30 districts, and a continued conceptual discussion on allowing drive-through services in the Central Mixed Use (CMU) district. All votes were unanimous, and the commission provided direction to staff on the drive-through item.
It is five o'clock, and we'll call the City of Monroe Plan Commission to order. And at this time we'll have a roll call. Mayor Douglas here. Alder Schaefer. Here? Ron Spielman. Lewis Cruz. Bill Bentzke. Ben Voss. And Dave Whartonweiler. Here. So we have one. We have a quorum. All right. Are there any corrections of the minutes of the February 11th, 2026 meeting that you received? Hearing none, they will be approved as presented. Moving on to business. And that's requested by the zoning administration. So this is administrator Rindy and Shannon's also on the line to further, but these are from follow-up kind of points from previous meetings. The memo that Shannon did provide does touch on both of the agenda items, but we separated them out for separate action to be taken. But just so you know to refer to both. So the first one that we're talking about is the MR 15 and adding more principal uses for permitted by right for the number of units to allow townhouses for what we talked about of up to the eight units for townhouse multiplex and apartments. So that would be we'd be looking for you guys to recommend that on to council. It would first go to judici judiciary and ordinance, then to council for another public hearing that would be held prior to its full approval. And Shannon, if you have anything to add, I guess. No, I think you can write it. So and I guess to further clarify, like these were allowed by conditional or yeah, conditional use. This would be changing it that they're permitted by right for the up to eight units. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. Is there any further discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor say aye. Oppose no, and the clerk will call the roll. Mayor Douglas. Aye. Alder Schaefer. Aye. Ron Spielman. Aye. And Dave Whartonweiler. Aye. Okay. And that passes, and we'll move on to the uh discussion and possible recommendation to the common council regarding the City of Monroe zoning text amendments regarding parking requirements and NMU and MR 15 and MR 30 zoning districts. And that's requested by the zoning administration. So this is administrator Indy, and so this one goes a little. We talked about this a little bit further. Um the MR 15 kind of units was a little more recent.