Plan Commission Minutes 20260311CITY 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
UNAPPROVED
I , ue cap or
USKEGO
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