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Article: Ire grows at county's freeze on growth Sudden move halts plans in Caledonia and Mount Pleasant
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- December 13, 1998
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Opposition is mounting to a hastily drafted development
moratorium, approved by a Racine County panel last week, that
critics say was poorly devised and may have been enacted in violation
of open meeting laws.
The ban on large developments in Caledonia and Mount Pleasant,
adopted Monday by the County Board's Planning and Development
Committee,is aimed at halting subdivisions and other developments
that don't have municipal water and sewer service.
The committee wants to study water and sewer needs before any more
large developments are approved.
But County Executive Jean Jacobson already has asked the committee
to reconsider the vote at its next meeting Dec. 21. Builders and
developers also ...