The Monroe City Plan Commission met on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, at 5:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers. Alder Matt Sheaffer chaired the meeting. Present were Commissioners Ron Spielman, Dave Wartenweiler, Jesse Duff, and Ron Markham; absent were Mayor Miller and Louis Armstrong. The meeting included a workshop on tax incremental financing, approval of a certified survey map, updates to the zoning code for in-home daycares, and adoption of a public participation plan for a comprehensive plan amendment. The meeting adjourned at 5:53 PM.
TID 101 Workshop: Greg Johnson from Ehlers presented an overview of Tax Incremental Financing (TIF) districts, covering how TIDs work, the 12% value limitation (Monroe at 6.21% as of 2026), types of TIDs, the "but for" test, and recent legislative changes including a new residential TID effective after October 1, 2026, focused on owner-occupied single-family or duplex workforce housing with strict eligibility requirements. Commissioners asked questions about minimum size, land acquisition restrictions, and affordable housing definitions. No action was taken; the presentation served as a reference for future TID proposals.
Certified Survey Map for Cheese Louise: Director of Public Works Al Gerber presented a request to combine four lots on the north side of 30th Street between 9th and 11th Avenues into one parcel for future development, leaving one separate lot for Mineral Engraving. The commission voted unanimously to approve and recommend the CSM to the Common Council.
Ordinance Repealing and Recreating Zoning Code 5-2 (In-Home Daycare): Administrator Rindy explained that state licensing now allows in-home daycares to serve up to 12 children (previously 8). The city code is being updated to align with state regulations, and the CMU district classification for in-home daycare is changed from conditional use to permitted use to avoid conflicts with state law. The commission voted unanimously to recommend approval to the Common Council.
Comprehensive Plan Amendment Public Participation Plan: Shannon Hayden from Vandewalle & Associates presented the first step for a comp plan amendment necessitated by a rezoning request inconsistent with the future land use map. The public participation plan outlines how public testimony will be collected, and it includes language allowing its use for future amendments. A public hearing is anticipated in September. The commission voted unanimously to adopt a resolution recommending the public participation plan to the Common Council for adoption.
It's uh five o'clock. I'd like to call the Monero City Planning Commission to order if the administrator would call a role, please. Yes, Mayor Miller. Alder Schaefer. Here. Ron Spielman. Dave Hortonweiler. Here. Jesse Duff. Here. Louis Armstrong. And Ron Markham. Here. Okay, we have quorum. Any correction of the minutes from July 8th, 2026. Hearing none, we'll move on to the business. C1 TID 101 workshop by Ailers. Planning Commission and Common Council members. Yes, so we have Greg Johnson here with others to kind of give uh an overview of TIDS for everyone. Good afternoon. Included in the packet was our TID presentation. Just want to say there's a lot of content in there. This is really intended to be a reference guide for future as you need it. TIFFs, there's a lot of detail involved with TIFF district, so we just wanted to provide some a comprehensive resource, but I I'm not gonna dwell on on all the content. We'll just kind of give it an overview. But appreciate the opportunity to be here this afternoon. So we'll kind of start with what uh taxicramal financing districts is and how the tool is used. So you'll hear two terms used kind of interchangeably. So first is TIFF, which is taxicromal financing. That refers to the term and the tool that is defined in statute, which I'll talk about this afternoon. And then you'll refer to a TID, which is a tax accrement district. That's specifically where the tool is deployed in a particular community. So a taxicremel finance district is is it's really an economic development tool that is used by municipalities to help promote development or redevelopment within a defined geographic area. And how a TIF district works financially is when a TIFF district is created, you'll identify a an area where you want to uh use taxocromal financing that is called the TID district. And all the properties within that TIF district have a taxable value at the time the district is created. That is called the base value of the district. So all the taxing jurisdictions, the city, the county, the school district, the technical college, all continue to clear cluck their share of tax revenue on that existing value, just like they would do prior to a TID district being created. And so that that base value, there's no loss of tax revenue from what was collected at the time the district was created. The financial benefit of a TIF district occurs when that value within the district's boundary increases, whether that's due to new construction, a redevelopment project, appreciation, or a combination of a multiple multiple of those factors. That increase in value is called the incremental value, and the city retains the taxes collected on all of that incremental value. And when the TIF district remains open either for its maximum life or recovers and enough revenue to pay for all of its project costs, the TID district closes, and all that value returns to the tax rolls. So really what the TIFF district is it's a financial partnership uh between the city and the other taxing jurisdictions because the county, the school district, and the technical college, when a TIFF district is TIFF district is created, they are agreeing to forego their share of tax revenue on that increase in value, that incremental value with the expectation that that investment of those tax dollars is gonna result in valuation increases that would not occur but for the use of the TIFF district. So it's really that long-term partnership that at the end when the district closes or reaches the end of its maximum life, there's going to be more taxable value there than there would have been if the TID had not been utilized. And then when the district closes, all the taxi jurisdictions benefit is all that uh taxable value returns to the tax rolls. So a SICBO example, if you had four parcels, the cumulative value of those parcels was five million dollars. That's the base value. Over time, that value increases to 15 million. So the incremental value is 10 million dollars, the difference between the increase and the base, the uh 10 million of incremental value gets returned to the tax rolls, and the TID closes, all the tax insurance sections go back to collecting their share of tax revenue. So, really the financial benefit of a TIFF district is you can capture tax revenue from a defined geographic area, take revenue from development and redevelopment projects, and use that tax revenue directly, invest back into infrastructure or other projects necessary for that development to materialize. Before I keep going on, those are kind of the financial fundamentals of a TID.