Center for Land Use Education 

The Center for Land Use Education has had an on-going series called Wisconsin Land Use Megatrends. This project is designed to help Wisconsin decision-makers – from legislators and local officials to landowners and recreationalists – make informed decisions about the future of Wisconsin. Below are the topics we have focused on; each image is a link to the publication.

Farmland Preservation Survey and Focus Groups

Please click here for the final survey results.

Please click here for the Focus Group Report.

Fact Sheets and Resources

• Living In The County (PDF, 5 MB)
• Bonus Lot Preservation Plan (Word, 114 KB)
• TIF Fundamentals for Towns (PDF, 50 KB)
• Open Meeting Law (PDF, 181 KB)
• Extraterritorial Zoning (PDF, 56 KB)
• Extraterritorial Platting (PDF, 79 KB)
• Official Mapping (PDF, 23 KB)
• Boundary Agreements (PDF, 30 KB)
• Examples of Intergovernmental Cooperation (Word, 60 KB)
• Cell Towers (PDF, 58 KB)

Links

• Metropolitan Builders Association
• Land Conservation Partnership
• 1000 Friends of Wisconsin
• Ozaukee Washington Land Trust
• UWEX Local Government Center
• Washington County Planning Dept.
• UWEX Center for Land Use Education
• Wisconsin Historical Society
• Washington County Historical Society
• Washington County Register of Deeds
• Wisconsin League of Municipalities
• Wisconsin Towns Association

Presentations

• Implementing a Community Plan (12 pages, 271 KB)
• Multi-Use Trail Development (26 pages, 3600 KB)
• Intergovernmental Cooperation (29 pages, 194 KB)
• Groundwater in Washington County(17 pages, 1 MB)
• Agriculture Element (24 pages, 1024 KB)
• Cultural & Historical Resources Element (38 pages, 1154 KB)