Plan Commission — Muskego, WI
Date: 2026-03-20

CITY OF MUSKEGO
PLAN COMMISSION AGENDA
03/11/2026
6:00 PM
Muskego City Hall, W182 S8200 Racine Avenue
Meeting Room 1
** SPECIAL MEETING **


CALL TO ORDER

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

ROLL CALL

STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE

NEW BUSINESS FOR CONSIDERATION

 RESOLUTION PC 010-2026 Approval and Recommendation of 2035 Comprehensive Plan and
 Municipal Code Chapter 380 Comprehensive Plan Amendments to Common Council for the City of
 Muskego.
 PC 010-2026 SUPPLEMENT.pdf
 2035 Comp Plan Document Link.pdf
 PC 010-2026 RESOLUTION.pdf

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APPROVED
CITY OF MUSKEGO
PLAN COMMISSION MINUTES
03/11/2026
6:00 PM
Muskego City Hall, W182 S8200 Racine
Avenue Meeting Room 1
** SPECIAL MEETING **


CALL TO ORDER

  Mayor Petfalski called the meeting to order at 6:00 PM.

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

  Those present recited the Pledge of Allegiance.

ROLL CALL

  Present: Mayor Petfalski, Alderman Madden and Commissioners Bartlett, Buckmaster, Cieslak, Graf and
  Planner Fahl.
  Absent: Commissioner Kubacki and Planner Trzebiatowski

STATEMENT OF PUBLIC NOTICE

  The meeting was noticed in accordance with the open meeting laws.

NEW BUSINESS FOR CONSIDERATION

 RESOLUTION PC 010-2026 Approval and Recommendation of 2035 Comprehensive Plan and
 Municipal Code Chapter 380 Comprehensive Plan Amendments to Common Council for the City of
 Muskego.

  Planner Fahl provided an overview of the Comprehensive Plan. Because the 2020 Plan was well done and
  suited the City well, this is an update to the 2020 Plan and includes updates to the statistics. This 2035 Plan is
  very similar to the 2020 Plan and went through and updated the goals and objectives of the plan that are very
  similar to those of the last 2020 Plan. A Comprehensive Plan culminates with a future land use map. There
  were three areas of change in land use from the 2020 Plan. Two of the changes include areas that were found
  through separate studies to be able to be serviced by the public sewer system. These areas were updated
  from low density and rural density residential to medium density residential. The third area of change is in the
  Racine Avenue commercial corridor where a property owner requested a change from medium density
  residential to commercial uses. Also included is a timeline of when the 2035 Plan was distributed to Common
  Council, Plan Commission and to the public. There was a Public Hearing held on March 10, 2026 where
  seven residents spoke. Their concerns were specific to the Eco-Industrial Desired Development Area (DDA).
  The DDA’s are areas pointed out where possible future development could occur. Staff recommended to
  remove the Eco-Industrial DDA and the Common Council agreed and recommended the Eco-Industrial DDAs
  be removed from the Plan text and map.

  Commissioner Graf asked what the logic was for the Eco-Industrial. Commissioner Buckmaster said that at
  the time there was a lot of comments relating to wanting to be green so this was a way to encourage green
  development and cutting-edge development. At the time, the community liked the idea but didn’t want to pay
  for it so much of the text was changed so that if someone wanted to be green, they could be green. The eco
  part was business and so adding business uses around the landfill made sense. Planner Fahl mentioned a
  previous comment about using methane from the landfill was an original idea. Commissioner Buckmaster
  explained that MMSD uses some of the methane to power their plants and the idea was that a business could
 follow what MMSD does, but it never took off. So there really isn’t a point in keeping that idea but a business
 could do this on their own, but would just do so with their own funds.

 Commissioner Graf asked what year this took place. Mayor Petfalski said 2009 and Commissioner
 Buckmaster said they finished in 2012. Mayor Petfalski added that this was during one of the biggest
 recessions we had where businesses were trying to find new avenues and sustainability was the new idea.
 Commissioner Buckmaster added that the eco ideas were removed from the residential areas but left in by the
 landfill as the thought was that the landfill area would benefit.

 Commissioner Bartlett asked if this was replaced with strictly industrial with no eco-overlay. Planner Fahl said
 that was correct and the change also applied by the quarry area where the land uses stayed the same and it
 was just the eco-industrial label was removed.

 Commissioner Buckmaster made a motion to approve Resolution PC 010-2026. Alderman Madden
 seconded. Commissioner Buckmaster made a motion to amend Resolution PC 010-2026 removing the ‘Eco-
 Industrial’ Desired Development Area in the text and map. Commissioner Graf seconded. Motion to amend
 Resolution PC 010-2026 passed unanimously. Motion to approve Amended Resolution PC 010-2026 passed
 unanimously.

ADJOURNMENT
 Commissioner Graf made a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Bartlett seconded. Motion to adjourn passed
 unanimously.


Respectfully Submitted,

Aaron Fahl, AICP
Planner