The Waukesha Plan Commission held a special meeting on February 11, 2026, at 6:00 PM in City Hall Council Chambers to review the entire proposed Zoning Code update. Commissioners Joan Francoeur, Elizabeth Moltzan, Jack Wells, Shawn Reilly, R.G. Keller, Jennifer Wallner, and Heather Granger were present. The meeting focused on revisions made in response to prior feedback and allowed for further input on all chapters. No public comments were made at the start of the meeting, but two members of the public spoke later.
All right. 602. Okay, we'll call the Plan Commission meeting of Wednesday, February 11th. This is a special meeting to order. We're going to start with the Pledge of Allegiance. And Ray, right down here is going to help us. He's going to lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. So whenever you're ready, you can start. And to the Republic for which we'll do the justice for all. I think Ray will go on attend every meeting now. Okay. Next item is roll call. President of the plan from the Planning Commission is Wells, Walner, Frank Core, Riley, Keller, and Molton. Den Edge there. Also, we do have members of the Common Council. Am I missing anyone? Okay. So we do have a quorum. I did say Piper. Yeah. The next item is public comment. We if anyone, if you want to make comments at this point, please come up to the microphone and provide your comments. We will allow comments during the meeting also. But if you need to get out of here, now would be the time to make your comment. Okay. Zoning code update. Review drafts of the entire proposed zoning code. Who's starting that? Sure. Okay, Charlie. So at this point, I think all of you know our consultants from House Hill Vien and Birch Line Planning. They're here to present mostly changes that have been made to the zoning code in responses to in response to comments from the plan commission, from council members, and from both planning and planning department staff and from city attorney's office. As you know, the we've the whole code has been presented in parts so far over the last year. And now we have the whole the entire thing. So they'll they'll be presenting that. It'll mostly again just be changes that have been made, but you will also have the opportunity to make comments on any part of the code. So ahead. All right. So since you all um know this is our last uh joint meeting uh to review all the major changes we have done so far uh since last couple of weeks um throughout the chapters. So the purpose of tonight's meeting is just go through all the all those um chapter revisions and uh that reflects the revision we have received from the city staff, um the city attorney, and all the feedbacks you uh from you since um last year. Um just quickly to go through what uh we have done so far. So we have gone through all the chapter um comments and also we are on a draft final um draft and a zoning code. Um at this point, we are almost about to end the code, but generally we include the subdivision standards as a part of the all the chapters, but um this is like a unique situation at this moment, so we are gonna include the subdivision standards later at the phase and just adopt the code. First, the the chapter one is general provisions. Uh we have not done any major changes to the chapters, so I'm just gonna skip over and move on to the next chapter. So the next chapter is zoning districts. So one of the major changes we have done is uh revising the names for base districts. Um re uh revise the name for residential neighborhood districts to make sure they kind of like more aligned towards their purpose uh from RN1, RN2, RN3, and RN4s. The RN1 is more towards um large lords and low density development. Uh R and two is more towards um the missing middle housing, RN3 is including like the smaller scale multi-unit and uh missing middle development.