Letter from Kolby Hirth to Plan Commission

Mary:

Please consider this a formal request of the Plan Commission for next Tuesday's meeting.

Please forward this e-mail to each Plan Commission member and to the Kraemer representative prior to next Tuesday's meeting.  I will send hardcopies, as most do not have published e-mail addresses.

Finally, please know that I appreciate your efforts and understand the challenge of this work, which is so often thankless.  If I can clarify anything to make its presentation easier, please don't hesitate to let me know.

--Kolby

 

Plan commission members:

I ask the Plan Commission members to individually speak for the record on how the plan submitted by the Kraemer Company protects the neighboring residential properties, because each member has an individual and separate vote.  It is well within the realm of a reasonable definition of public hearing.

 

The Kraemer Company did not submit a plan for mitigating negative visual impact on neighboring properties; i.e. for  berm construction and landscaping when they approached the Plan commission for rezoning in Spring Green area. 

 

Significantly, Mr. Jewell (of the Kraemer company) was not even acknowledged when he interrupted the Kraemer presentation to state that the Kraemer company would pay for professional landscaping.  That is, the Question-and-Answer session to the Plan commission continued as if the offer had not been proffered!  And not a single member of the commission asked for follow-up or requested submittal of landscaping plans at the next commission meeting.  This speaks to individual responsibility of Plan Commission members.

 

I recall Irv Snyder being abundantly helpful to the Kraemer representative in leading him towards stating how the planned operation would benefit farming.  Irv repeatedly guided him in his narrative, continually bringing him back to speaking of the extract as farm bedding sand.