Regional planners reopen long-range look at southeast Wisconsin

With the arrival of Foxconn to southeast Wisconsin, regional planners are working to update an advisory growth and development plan adopted just two years ago.

Foxconn wasn’t yet on the radar when the Southeast Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission — whose seven-county region includes Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha counties — finalized “Vision 2050,” a long-range plan for land use development and transportation in the region....

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Ken Notes: I would love to see multi-jurisdictional plans for land use development and transportation by region across the state. These could identify and protect watersheds and environmentally sensitive lands add address potential larger projects that would require support from more than one community. I would point to the landfill plan in the Fox valley that shares land fill sites across the region as a good example of working together. Regional efforts can be very good for the environment.