CLUE Workshops

Please contact us if there is interest for a Plan Commission or Board of Adjustment/Appeals workshop in your region.

New Publications from CLUE

Wisconsin Land Use Megatrends: Energy
This publication is intended for local government officials and others interested in investigating the connections between energy and land use. Statewide trends related to renewable and nonrenewable energy are explored together with building, transportation and community design approaches to reduce energy use.

Planning Implementation Tools Fact Sheet
Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)
A CIP is a community planning and fiscal management tool used to coordinate the location, timing and financing of capital improvements over a multi-year period. Capital improvements refer to major, non-recurring physical expenditures such as land, buildings, public infrastructure and equipment.

Conferences/Events

  UWEX Land Use Planning and Zoning Series
January 7, 2009 – Putting Sustainability to Work in your Government
February 4, 2009 – Land Use and the First Amendment

Wisconsin Local Food Summit
January 8-9, 2009 – Hotel Mead, Wisconsin Rapids

UWEX Building Communities Webinar Series
January 20, 2009 – Comprehensive Community Planning and Sustainability
Presenter: Anna Haines, Director, Center for Land Use Education, UW-Stevens Point
This webinar will focus on infusing sustainability concepts (the three E's of Economy, Environment and Equity and The Natural Step principles) into the elements of the comprehensive plan. How to create goals, objectives and policies that reflect sustainability will be discussed along with resources to assist with sustainability planning efforts.
For more information, visit the UW Extension Webinar Series website.

  Working Lands Workshop schedule

News

The Capital Times, December 3, 2008
Fitchburg action preserves community garden
By Samara Kalk Derby

The Capital Times, December 2, 2008
Despite slumping real estate market, Madison's newest cohousing project nearly full
By Mike Ivey

Barron News Shield, November 28, 2008
Citizens give input into Comprehensive Plan