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• Summer 2008, Volume 8, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for Your Airport: The Time is Now, (2) Targeting Priority Working Lands and Operations, and (3) What is LESA?

•   The Land Use Tracker Spring 2008 (8 pages, 1650 KB)

 


• Spring 2008, Volume 7, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Mitigation Planning for Natural Hazards, (2) The Transportation Aspect of Disaster Planning, (3) With Growing Hope: A Study of the August 2007 Kickapoo Flood in the Village of Gays Mills, and (4) Disaster Planning and Recovery Resources.

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2008 on the web
•   The Land Use Tracker Spring 2008 (12 pages, 644 KB)

 

• Winter 2007, Volume 7, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for Community Food Systems, (2) Can Eating Local “Save the Environment?", (3) Farming Subdivisions: Problematic or Promising?, and (4) Community Gardens: For Now or Forever?.
   
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2007 on the web
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• Fall 2007, Volume 7, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) The Impact of Wisconsin's Public Participation Requirement on Local Comprehensive Plans, (2) Mapping Meaning and the Meaning of Maps, (3) Is Your Community Planning to Protect Its Drinking Water?, and (4) Plan Commission Workshops.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2007 on the web
  •  The Land Use Tracker Fall 2007 (12 pages, 1961 KB)

• Summer 2007, Volume 7, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Dakota County Program Aims to Preserve Farmland and Natural Areas, (2) The First Year of the Livestock Facility Siting Law, (3) Regulatory Approaches to Conservation Subdivisions in Wisconsin, (4) Legal Update: Zoning Boards May Consider Zoning Official Mistake, (5) Leadership Program Aims to Ease Workforce Challenges in Wisconsin’s County Zoning Offices, and (6) CLUE Workshops.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2007 on the web
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• Spring 2007, Volume 6, Issue 4
  This edition of the Land Use Tracker takes a closer look at some of the programs and ideas highlighted during the Growing Wisconsin: A Workshop on How to Sustain Our Working Lands.  Individual articles include:  (1) Wisconsin Working Lands Initiative, (2) Garber and Robertson: Frequently Asked Questions, (3) State and Local Steps for Successful Farmland Preservation, (4) The Pension Protection Act of 2006, (5) TDR Program One of Many Protection Practices Used in Western Wisconsin, (6) Farmland Protection Strategies in Southern Wisconsin, and (7) Northeast Wisconsin Considers Itself the “Heart of the Wisconsin Dairy Industry”.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2007 on the web
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• Winter 2006, Volume 6, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Status of Comprehensive Planning and Educational Needs in Wisconsin; (2) Designing Communities for Active Lifestyles; (3) Shoreland Protection Rule Revisions Move Forward:  Focus Groups Finalize Recommendations; and (4) New Publications for 2006.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2006 on the web
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  Fall 2006, Volume 6, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Sustainable Communities:  Lessons from Wisconsin and Sweden; (2) Regional Collaboration:  a Framework for Solving Complex Planning Problems; (3) Adopting More Stringent Standards for Livestock Facility Siting; and (4) Effort to Update Shoreland Protection Rules Enters New Phase:  Groups to Focus on Areas Criticized in Original Proposal.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2006 on the web
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• Summer 2006, Volume 6, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Planning on the Cutting Edge Requires Fine Honing - What-if in Waupaca County; (2) New Technology for Manure Management; and (3) Regulatory Options Under the Livestock Facility Siting Law and Rule.
  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2006 on the web
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• Spring 2006, Volume 5, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Honing an Old Land Use Tool:  Regulating Rural Land Division at the Town Level; and (2) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin:  Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?  Part III.
  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2006 on the web
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• Winter 2005, Volume 5, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin: Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?; (2) L-THIA – Three Versions, Three Groups, Three Projects; (3) Is Municipal Financing of Storm Water Projects Failing?; and (4) Legal Update: New Quorum and Alternate Requirements for Zoning Boards.
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2005 on the web
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• Fall 2005, Volume 5, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Retirements In County Zoning Offices Spur New Ideas For Facilitating Workforce Succession; (2) CLUE Initiates Parcelization Study; (3) Legal Update: New Court Decisions Regarding Conditional Use Permits and New Court Decision Impacts Zoning Boards; (4) Staff Update; and (5) New Publications.
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2005 on the web
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• Summer 2005, Volume 5, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Do Wisconsin’s "Smart Growth" Plans Conform to Smart Growth Principles?; (2) CLUE-in on Technology - Web Mapping for Comprehensive Planning; and (3) Legal Update - Nonconforming Structures.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2005 on the web
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• Spring 2005, Volume 4, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin:  Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?; (2) Fostering Outreach Education and Public Involvement with GIS; (3) Sustainable Sweden Workshop Visits Ashland; and (4) Legislative Updates.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2005 on the web
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• Winter 2004, Volume 4, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Tapping the New APA Energy Policy Guide to Make Wisconsin's Smart Growth Law Even Smarter; (2) The Role of Energy in Comprehensive Planning; (3) The Wildland-Urban Interface and the Farmland-Urban Interface in Wisconsin; (4) CLUE Offers Plan Commission Workshops.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2004 on the web
  •  The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 (12 pages, 939 KB)
     

• Fall 2004, Volume 4, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Smart Forestry for Smart Growth Planner's Toolbox:  Incorporating Forests and Forestry into Local Comprehensive Plans; (2)  Free On-line Course for Local Officials and Woodland Owners; (3) Considering Noise Impacts of Transportation Facilities;  (4) Connections 2030:  The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Long-Range Plan;     (5) Wisconsin Coastal Management Grants; and (6) Coastal Planning Guide Published. 

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 on the web
  •  The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 (12 pages, 515 KB)
  •  The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 Insert (2 pages, 3,558 KB)  As this file is very large, it is also available as two separate files below:
    •  Wisconsin's Forest Cover map (958 KB)
    •  Managed Forest Lands map (2,532 KB)
       

• Summer 2004, Volume 4, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) The Wisconsin Planning Experience:  Results From the Community Planning Survey; (2) Standards of Review for Conditional Uses; (3)  Wisconsin Supreme Court Distinguishes Between Area and Use Variances and Changes the Standard for Area Variances; and (4) Legislative Update:  Revisions to Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2004 on the web
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• Spring 2004, Volume 3, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Connecting Land Use and Transportation in Your Comprehensive Plan; (2) Conditional Uses; and (3)  E-Mail:  Important Considerations for Local Officials.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2004 on the web
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• Winter 2003-04, Volume 3, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Meaningful to Citizens-Functional for Planning:  Using Public Participation Tools to Accomplish Planning Tasks; (2) Watersheds and Comprehensive Planning; (3)  CLUSTER Project; and (4) Economic Development Planning Guide Published.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003-04 on the web
  •   The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003-04 (12 pages, 1,149 KB)
    •   The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003-04 Insert (2 pages, 87 KB)
       
• Fall 2003, Volume 3, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Integrating the Local Economy and natural Resources in the Planning Process Part II; (2) Comprehensive Planning:  Ready, Set, Go?, Part II; (3)  Legal Q & A on Comprehensive planning Law; and (4) Top 10 Myths and Facts About Wisconsin's "Smart Growth" Law.
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2003 on the web
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2003 (16 pages, 836 KB)
     

• Summer 2003, Volume 3, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Integrating the Local Economy and natural Resources in the Planning Process; (2) Comprehensive Planning:  Ready, Set, Go?; (3)  Engaging Local Citizens: A Smart Growth Workshop overview; and (4) Gordie Boucher Case Overturned in Extraterritorial Subdivision Regulation Decision.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2003 on the web
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• Spring 2003, Volume 2, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) 2003 Comprehensive Planning Grant Awards Program; (2) Smart Growth:  A Solution to Sprawl?; (3)  Guides to the Planning Elements; (4) CLUE Launches New Comprehensive Planning Education Project; and (5) A recent court opinion about expansion of nonconforming uses...

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2003 on the web
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• Winter 2003, Volume 2, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) To Play the Game You Need to Know the Rules - Town-County Relationships in Zoning Administration; (2) Land Use Planning Publications; (3)  Defining and Characterizing Sprawl; (4) SWCS Annual Meeting - "Keeping the Land in Land Use Planning"; and (5) A link to the "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003 on the web
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003 (12 pages, 977 KB)
    

• Fall 2002, Volume 2, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Siting Rural Development - to Protect Lakes and Streams and Decrease Road Costs; (2) Wildlife and Habitat in a Comprehensive Plan; (3)  Link to "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2002 on the web
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2002 (10 pages, 805 KB)
     

• Summer 2002, Volume 2, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) An Innovative Tool for Managing Rural Residential Development:  A Look at Conservation Subdivisions; (2) Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling:  Agricultural Use Value Assessment; (3) Court of Appeals Upholds Rules for Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment; (4) Impervious Surface - An Environmental Indicator; and (5) Link to "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2002 on the web
  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2002 (10 pages, 781 KB)
     

• Spring 2002, Volume 1, Issue 4
  Articles include:  Managing Rural Residential Development, Moratoria and Takings, Public Lands and Proprety Taxes:  What is the Relationship?, and Land Use Education Course Group Offered This Summer at UWSP.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2002 on the web
  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2002 (8 pages, 449 KB)
     

• Winter 2002, Volume 1, Issue 3
  Articles include:  Critical Issues in Undertaking Community Surveys; Rain and Snow, Where Do They Go and What do They Take With Them?; Who's Who in the Planning World; What Changes Invalidate a Nonconforming Use?; and Planning for the Citizen Planner.

  • Winter 2002 web version
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2002 (12 pages, 1023 KB) - Please note that this document is quite large and may take as long as 5 minutes to download using a slower modem. You may want to download and save this document to your local PC by using your mouse to right click on the above link and selecting "Save Target As", this will also allow you to view the download's progress.

   

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