Community Development: Comprehensive Plan

In the year 2000 the State of Wisconsin passed a State Statute, Section 66.1001(3) requiring that municipalities must have a Comprehensive Plan that meets the State definition by January 1, 2010 if it wants to take any action that effects land use after that date. The Plan Commission began work on such a Comprehensive Plan in May of 2002. The Planning Commission undertook a comprehensive analysis of the existing conditions, relevant studies including data collection and analysis, and provided a document entitled “Working Paper” Existing Conditions and Planning Issues - Urban Area and Extraterritorial Area. Shortly after, the City Council adopted a Public Participation Plan to encourage the public to participate in the formation and review of the Comprehensive Plan.

Throughout the preparation of the Comprehensive Plan, the City was committed to active public outreach and participation in formation and review of the Comprehensive Plan. There were numerous public meetings, newsletters, and a document entitled “Public Outreach, Issues and Identification.” Summary of public meetings and survey responses, sketch plans consisting of text and maps that illustrate development alternatives that were guided by concerns raised by residents at public meetings and in surveys was presented at public meetings for review and comment. Throughout the process proper public notices were provided for each of the meetings through the local newspaper, newsletters, cable television, radio, City website and announcements at public meetings, and posting at City Hall.

Having considered the input provided by the State, Counties, Towns, City staff, and comments heard at public meetings, the Planning Commission passed, approved and adopted on June of 2005, the City of River Falls Comprehensive Plan and forwarded it to the City Council for their review and action. In July 2005, the City Council reviewed and adopted the City of River Falls Comprehensive Plan.

It should be noted that this is not the first Comprehensive Plan adopted by the City of River Falls. Since 1960 the City of River Falls has had Comprehensive/Master Plans for the City that have been reviewed and updated approximately every 8 to 10 years. This Plan is available at City Hall, the Public Library, and on the City website.

pdf Sketch Plan

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Fall 2003

Comprehensive Plan

(Final Document Approved Per Ordinance 2005-15, Adopted 7/26/2005, Published 8/4/2005)

Acknowledgements	Chapter 7 - Infrastructure
Table of Contents	Chapter 8 - Natural Resources
Chapter 1 - Introduction	Chapter 9 - Community Services & Development
Chapter 2 - Heritage Resource	Chapter 10 - Institutional
Chapter 3 - Land Use	Appendixes
Chapter 4 - Growth Management	Glossary
Chapter 5 - Character & Development
Chapter 6 - Transportation

Figures (Maps) in the Comprehensive Plan

Chapter 1	Chapter 7
Figure 1-1, Regional Location	Figure 7-1, Existing Water Distribution
Figure 1-2, Planning Boundary	Figure 7-2, Available Fire Flow Contours
Chapter 3	Figure 7-3, Proposed Water Improvements
Figure 3-1, Land Policy Overlays	Figure 7-4, Improved Fire Flow Contours
Figure 3-2 Growth of the City	Figure 7-5, Current Sanitary Sewer Service Area
Figure 3-3 City of River Falls Zoning Map	Figure 7-6, Current Sanitary Sewer Flow Diagram
Figure 3-4, Extraterritorial Zoning Map	Figure 7-7, Sanitary Sewer Service Area Overview
Figure 3-5, Sewer Service Area Map	Figure 7-8, Minor Watershed Boundary
Figure 3-6, Urban Area Boundary & Future Land Use	Figure 7-9, Power Plant Flow Chart (see Chapter 7, pg. 23)
Chapter 4	Chapter 8
Figure 4-1, Urban Sub-Areas	Figure 8-1, Soils
Figure 4-2, Staging Areas-Water System	Figure 8-2, Resource Protection Areas
Figure 4-3, Staging Areas-Sanitary System	Figure 8-3, Sensitive Resource Areas
Figure 4-4, Staging Areas-Water/Sanitary	Chapter 9
Chapter 5	Figure 9-1, School Sites and Property
Figure 5-1, Design Framework	Figure 9-2, Park and Conservancy Land
Figure 5-2, Design District	Figure 9-3, Fire & Emergency Response Areas
Chapter 6	Figure 9-4, Neighborhood Association Boundaries
Figure 6-1, Mobility and Access*
Figure 6-2, Functional Street Classification System*
Figure 6-3, Current Local Street Standards*
Figure 6-4, Bike & Pedestrian Accident Locations*
Figure 6-5, Bike and Pedestrian System*
* See Chapter 6 for Figures 6-1 through 6-5. They are included in the written chapter.

Community Development: Comprehensive Plan

Newsletters

Comprehensive Plan

Figures (Maps) in the Comprehensive Plan

Chapter 1

Chapter 7

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 5

Chapter 6