WATERTOWN, WIS. (EXCERPTS FROM WDTIMES.COM) — The Watertown Plan Commission met recently to discuss its comprehensive zoning code rewrite. Associate Planner Sonja Kruesel of Vandewalle & Associates presented a comprehensive view and a new zoning map, explained its new mix of upzoning and downzoning.

“The Corridor Mixed-Use District allows for a greater mix of land uses than the General Business District used to,” she said. Upzoning increases the development density or uses of the land, such as having a smaller minimum lot area or reduced setbacks. Downzoning is the opposite, reducing permitted uses via the assigned district (for example, from commercial to residential).

You can read the WDTIMES.COM article here.

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