Newsletters are sorted by date with the most recently published first.

• Winter 2011, Volume 11, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for High Water, (2) New GIS-Based Toolkit, (3) Solar Permitting Update, and (4) Calendar of Events

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2011 (8 pages, 1.2 MB)
    

• Fall 2011, Volume 11, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for Airports: The Role of Local Government, (2) Working with the New Impervious Surface Standard, (3) Comparing Zoning Systems through Spatial Modeling, and (4) Helping Wisconsin Residents Save Money through Water Efficiency

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2011 (12 pages, 2.5 MB)
  
   
  

• Summer 2011, Volume 11, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Solar Power: What Local Government Can Do, (2) Role of the Plan Commission, (3) Court Rules Zoning Amendment May Nullify Conditional Use Permit, (4) New Publications Focus on Shoreland and Wetland Zoning, and (5) Staff Update

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2011 (12 pages, 1.2 MB)
  
   
  

• Spring 2011, Volume 10, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Location Efficiency and Housing Type: Boiling it Down to BTUs, (2) Roles and Responsibilities of the Zoning Board, (3) Wind Siting Rules Suspended, and (4) State Budget Update

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2011 (12 pages, 944 KB)

 


• Winter 2010, Volume 10, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Creating a “Third Place”, (2) CLUE Offers Plan Commission and Zoning Board Workshops, (3) New Wind Energy Rules to Go Into Effect, (4) Platting Law Changes, (5) GIS Applications for Managing Working Lands and Operations, and (6) Meet the New DNR Shoreland Zoning Team.

• The Land Use Tracker Winter 2010 (12 pages, 2.1 MB)

 


• Fall 2010, Volume 10, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Principles of Community Placemaking, (2) Farming on the Edge: Land Use and Economic Impacts of Agricultural Land Conversion, and (3) Burning Biomass is a Hot Topic in Wisconsin, and (4) Staff Update

• The Land Use Tracker Fall 2010 (12 pages, 4.3 MB)

 


• Summer 2010, Volume 10, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) 2010 Updates to Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law, (2) Changes to Wisconsin's Platting Laws, and (3) State Shoreland Development Rules Updated

• The Land Use Tracker Summer 2010 (12 pages, 379 KB)

 


• Spring 2010, Volume 9, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Lawns: A Large Part of Wisconsin’s Landscape, (2) What Happened to the Phosphorous? Homeowner Information on New Turf Fertilizer Restrictions, and (3) 2009 Wisconsin Planning and Zoning Case Law Update

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2010 (12 pages, 379 KB)

 


• Winter 2009, Volume 9, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Creativity, Culture, Community, Commerce, (2) Planning for Arts and Culture, and (3) GIS Mapping of Cultural Assets: The Case of Madison

• The Land Use Tracker Winter 2009 (12 pages, 985 KB)

 


• Fall 2009, Volume 9, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Managing Controversy: The Case for Community Dialogue, (2) Urban Chickens Raise Unique Land Use Questions, and (3) Zoning Change Found by its Effect, Not its Label

• The Land Use Tracker Fall 2009 (12 pages, 453 KB)

 


• Summer 2009, Volume 9, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Are We Drinking Our Land Use Habits?, (2) Landscape Features that Drive Parcelization (3) Wisconsin Joint Finance Committee Completes Budget Work; Adopts Working Lands Initiative, and (4) Status of County GIS Mapping.

• The Land Use Tracker Summer 2009 (12 pages, 2.4 MB)

 


• Spring 2009, Volume 8, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) The Roots of Landscape Change: Parcelization, (2) Capital Improvement Plan Factsheet (pull out), and (3) State Budget/Federal Stimulus Highlights.

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2009 (12 pages, 1.4 MB)

 


• Winter 2008, Volume 8, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Livable Communities: A Blueprint for Small Communities, (2) Planning for Walkable/Bikable Communities, (3) Planning for Third Places, and (4) Miskowiak to Spearhead GIS Center at UWSP.

• The Land Use Tracker Winter 2008 (12 pages, 492 KB)

 


• Fall 2008, Volume 8, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Governor's Task Force on Global Warming: Proposed Policies for Energy Efficient Communities, (2) Land Use Impacts of Renewable Energy, (3) Wisconsin's Energy Independent Community Partnership, and (4) Climate Change Summit: Wisconsin Communities Take Action.

• The Land Use Tracker Fall 2008 (12 pages, 757 KB)

 


• Summer 2008, Volume 8, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for Your Airport: The Time is Now, (2) Targeting Priority Working Lands and Operations, and (3) What is LESA?

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2008 (8 pages, 1.6 MB)

 


• Spring 2008, Volume 7, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Mitigation Planning for Natural Hazards, (2) The Transportation Aspect of Disaster Planning, (3) With Growing Hope: A Study of the August 2007 Kickapoo Flood in the Village of Gays Mills, and (4) Disaster Planning and Recovery Resources.

• The Land Use Tracker Spring 2008 (12 pages, 644 KB)

 

• Winter 2007, Volume 7, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Planning for Community Food Systems, (2) Can Eating Local “Save the Environment?", (3) Farming Subdivisions: Problematic or Promising?, and (4) Community Gardens: For Now or Forever?.
   
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2007 (12 pages, 482 KB)
  
  

• Fall 2007, Volume 7, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) The Impact of Wisconsin's Public Participation Requirement on Local Comprehensive Plans, (2) Mapping Meaning and the Meaning of Maps, (3) Is Your Community Planning to Protect Its Drinking Water?, and (4) Plan Commission Workshops.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2007 (12 pages, 2.0 MB)

• Summer 2007, Volume 7, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Dakota County Program Aims to Preserve Farmland and Natural Areas, (2) The First Year of the Livestock Facility Siting Law, (3) Regulatory Approaches to Conservation Subdivisions in Wisconsin, (4) Legal Update: Zoning Boards May Consider Zoning Official Mistake, (5) Leadership Program Aims to Ease Workforce Challenges in Wisconsin’s County Zoning Offices, and (6) CLUE Workshops.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2007 (12 pages, 4.6 MB)
     

• Spring 2007, Volume 6, Issue 4
  This edition of the Land Use Tracker takes a closer look at some of the programs and ideas highlighted during Growing Wisconsin: A Workshop on How to Sustain Our Working Lands. 

  Articles include:  (1) Wisconsin Working Lands Initiative, (2) Garber and Robertson: Frequently Asked Questions, (3) State and Local Steps for Successful Farmland Preservation, (4) The Pension Protection Act of 2006, (5) TDR Program One of Many Protection Practices Used in Western Wisconsin, (6) Farmland Protection Strategies in Southern Wisconsin, and (7) Northeast Wisconsin Considers Itself the “Heart of the Wisconsin Dairy Industry”.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2007 (12 pages, 1.7 MB)
     

• Winter 2006, Volume 6, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Status of Comprehensive Planning and Educational Needs in Wisconsin; (2) Transfer of Development Rights; (3) Designing Communities for Active Lifestyles; (4) Shoreland Protection Rule Revisions Move Forward:  Focus Groups Finalize Recommendations; and (5) New Publications for 2006.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2006 (12 pages, 1.5 MB)
• Fall 2006, Volume 6, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Sustainable Communities:  Lessons from Wisconsin and Sweden; (2) Regional Collaboration:  a Framework for Solving Complex Planning Problems; (3) Adopting More Stringent Standards for Livestock Facility Siting; and (4) Effort to Update Shoreland Protection Rules Enters New Phase:  Groups to Focus on Areas Criticized in Original Proposal.
• The Land Use Tracker Fall 2006 (12 pages, 1.3 MB)
   
• Summer 2006, Volume 6, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Planning on the Cutting Edge Requires Fine Honing - What-if in Waupaca County; (2) New Technology for Manure Management; and (3) Regulatory Options Under the Livestock Facility Siting Law and Rule.
  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2006 (12 pages, 4.1 MB)
     
• Spring 2006, Volume 5, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Honing an Old Land Use Tool:  Regulating Rural Land Division at the Town Level; and (2) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin:  Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?  Part III.
  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2006 (12 pages, 4.3 MB)
     
• Winter 2005, Volume 5, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin: Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?; (2) L-THIA – Three Versions, Three Groups, Three Projects; (3) Is Municipal Financing of Storm Water Projects Failing?; and (4) Legal Update: New Quorum and Alternate Requirements for Zoning Boards.
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2005 (12 pages, 2.7 MB)
     
• Fall 2005, Volume 5, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Retirements In County Zoning Offices Spur New Ideas For Facilitating Workforce Succession; (2) CLUE Initiates Parcelization Study; (3) Legal Update: New Court Decisions Regarding Conditional Use Permits and New Court Decision Impacts Zoning Boards; (4) Staff Update; and (5) New Publications.
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2005 (12 pages, 1.5 MB)
     

• Summer 2005, Volume 5, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Do Wisconsin’s "Smart Growth" Plans Conform to Smart Growth Principles?; (2) CLUE-in on Technology - Web Mapping for Comprehensive Planning; and (3) Legal Update - Nonconforming Structures.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2005 (12 pages, 731 KB)
     

• Spring 2005, Volume 4, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Comprehensive Planning in Wisconsin:  Are Communities Planning to Protect Their Groundwater?; (2) Fostering Outreach Education and Public Involvement with GIS; (3) Sustainable Sweden Workshop Visits Ashland; and (4) Legislative Updates.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2005 (12 pages, 5.2 MB)
     

• Winter 2004, Volume 4, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Tapping the New APA Energy Policy Guide to Make Wisconsin's Smart Growth Law Even Smarter; (2) The Role of Energy in Comprehensive Planning; (3) The Wildland-Urban Interface and the Farmland-Urban Interface in Wisconsin; (4) CLUE Offers Plan Commission Workshops.

  •  The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 (12 pages, 939 KB)
     

• Fall 2004, Volume 4, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Smart Forestry for Smart Growth Planner's Toolbox: Incorporating Forests and Forestry into Local Comprehensive Plans; (2) Free On-line Course for Local Officials and Woodland Owners; (3) Considering Noise Impacts of Transportation Facilities; (4) Connections 2030: The Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Long-Range Plan; (5) Wisconsin Coastal Management Grants; and (6) Coastal Planning Guide Published.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 (12 pages, 515 KB)
  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2004 Insert (2 pages, 3.6 MB) 

• Summer 2004, Volume 4, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) The Wisconsin Planning Experience:  Results From the Community Planning Survey; (2) Standards of Review for Conditional Uses; (3)  Wisconsin Supreme Court Distinguishes Between Area and Use Variances and Changes the Standard for Area Variances; and (4) Legislative Update:  Revisions to Wisconsin's Comprehensive Planning Law.

  •  The Land Use Tracker Summer 2004 (12 pages, 771 KB)
     

• Spring 2004, Volume 3, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) Connecting Land Use and Transportation in Your Comprehensive Plan; (2) Conditional Uses; and (3) E-Mail: Important Considerations for Local Officials.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2004 (PDF, 12 pages, 1.0 MB)
     

• Winter 2003-04, Volume 3, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) Meaningful to Citizens-Functional for Planning:  Using Public Participation Tools to Accomplish Planning Tasks; (2) Watersheds and Comprehensive Planning; (3) CLUSTER Project; and (4) Economic Development Planning Guide Published.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003-04 (PDF, 12 pages, 1.1 MB)
  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003-04 Insert (PDF, 2 pages, 87 KB)
     
• Fall 2003, Volume 3, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Integrating the Local Economy and Natural Resources in the Planning Process Part II; (2) Comprehensive Planning:  Ready, Set, Go?, Part II; (3)  Legal Q & A on Comprehensive Planning Law; and (4) Top 10 Myths and Facts About Wisconsin's "Smart Growth" Law.
• The Land Use Tracker Fall 2003 (PDF, 16 pages, 836 KB)
   

• Summer 2003, Volume 3, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Integrating the Local Economy and natural Resources in the Planning Process; (2) Comprehensive Planning:  Ready, Set, Go?; (3)  Engaging Local Citizens: A Smart Growth Workshop Overview; and (4) Gordie Boucher Case Overturned in Extraterritorial Subdivision Regulation Decision.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2003 (PDF, 12 pages, 918 KB)
     

• Spring 2003, Volume 2, Issue 4
  Articles include:  (1) 2003 Comprehensive Planning Grant Awards Program; (2) Smart Growth:  A Solution to Sprawl?; (3)  Guides to the Planning Elements; (4) CLUE Launches New Comprehensive Planning Education Project; and (5) A Recent Court Opinion About Expansion of Nonconforming Uses.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2003 (PDF, 12 pages, 1.7 MB)
    

• Winter 2003, Volume 2, Issue 3
  Articles include:  (1) To Play the Game You Need to Know the Rules - Town-County Relationships in Zoning Administration; (2) Land Use Planning Publications; (3)  Defining and Characterizing Sprawl; (4) SWCS Annual Meeting - "Keeping the Land in Land Use Planning"; and (5) A link to the "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2003 (PDF, 12 pages, 977 KB)
    

• Fall 2002, Volume 2, Issue 2
  Articles include:  (1) Siting Rural Development - to Protect Lakes and Streams and Decrease Road Costs; (2) Wildlife and Habitat in a Comprehensive Plan; (3)  Link to "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2002 (PDF, 10 pages, 805 KB)
     

• Summer 2002, Volume 2, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) An Innovative Tool for Managing Rural Residential Development:  A Look at Conservation Subdivisions; (2) Wisconsin Supreme Court Ruling:  Agricultural Use Value Assessment; (3) Court of Appeals Upholds Rules for Private Onsite Wastewater Treatment; (4) Impervious Surface - An Environmental Indicator; and (5) Link to "What's New at the Center" web page.

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2002 (PDF, 10 pages, 781 KB)
     

• Spring 2002, Volume 1, Issue 4
  Articles include:  Managing Rural Residential Development, Moratoria and Takings, Public Lands and Property Taxes:  What is the Relationship?, and Land Use Education Course Group Offered This Summer at UWSP.

  • The Land Use Tracker Spring 2002 (PDF, 8 pages, 449 KB)
     

• Winter 2002, Volume 1, Issue 3
  Articles include: (1) Critical Issues in Undertaking Community Surveys; (2) Rain and Snow, Where Do They Go and What Do They Take With Them?; (3) Who's Who in the Planning World; (5) What Changes Invalidate a Nonconforming Use?; and (6) Web-Based Community Planning for the Citizen Planner.

  • The Land Use Tracker Winter 2002 (PDF, 12 pages, 1.0 MB)
    

• Fall 2001, Volume 1, Issue 2
  Articles include: (1) Nonconformities Project: Coming Soon... A Guide to Developing Policies for Nonconforming Uses, Structures and Lots; (2) Tips for Successful Grant Writing; and (3) Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Variance Standard.

  • The Land Use Tracker Fall 2001 (PDF, 10 pages, 430 KB)
     

• Summer 2001, Volume 1, Issue 1
  Articles include:  (1) Land Use Education Center Established; (2) Legislative Update: Palazzolo v. Rhode Island and Fabyan v. Waukesha County Board of Adjustment; (3) How to Hire a Planning Consultant; (4) Better Meeting Management: Conduct of Zoning Board Hearings.  

  • The Land Use Tracker Summer 2001 (PDF, 12 pages, 335 KB)