LAKE GENEVA, WISC. (EXCERPTS FROM LAKEGENEVANEWS.NET) – Goat grazing may now officially occur on the former Hillmoor Golf Course property.
Members of the Lake Geneva City Council unanimously approved a conditional use permit, March 27, to allow for husbandry land use on the former Hillmoor Golf Course property, 333 E. Main St.
The Lake Geneva Plan Commission unanimously recommended the conditional use permit, March 20. The husbandry land use allows for goat grazing to occur on the former Hillmoor Golf Course property, which the city recently purchased for about $6 million.
“This is something we don’t see every day in the city,” Jackie Mich, associate planner for Vandewalle & Associates, Inc., said during the March 20 plan commission meeting. “It’s an agricultural use, and it’s any use that involves onsite grazing or use of animals.” 
Mich said the conditional use permit will remain valid up until a year after the goats are no longer on the property.
City officials plan to use about 50 goats to graze about 10 acres of land on the property during the spring or summer.
Members of the city council approved a contract with Vegetation Solutions LLC of Richland Center, Dec. 27, 2022, to provide goat grazing services on the former golf course.
Mayor Charlene Klein said the goats will be on the property for seven to 10 days to graze an area that once was a driving range. She said the goal is to convert that area back into a driving range at least temporarily.
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