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Wisconsin
Price County Smart Growth Committee Votes to Dissolve
Disappointed in its bid for $174,000 from the state's 2003
Comprehensive Planning Grant to help Price County and its 11
municipalities launch Smart Growth planning, the county's Smart
Growth Committee voted 6-5 to dissolve itself, if the county board
concurs, but promised to discuss with municipal officials whether
they want to work on Smart Growth plans without state aid. On one
side, reports Bee writer Meredith Hueckman, committee
members Jan Kardas and Randy Hueckman insisted that Smart Growth
was ''forced down our throat'' and would fail in court. On the other
side, members Bill Ave'Lallemont and Marie Fojtik stressed that
without a plan ''there will be chaos'' and that ''we have been
spinning our wheels instead of moving forward.'' According to the
Wisconsin Department of Administration, the writer notes, the state
had $3 million for this year's Smart Growth grants, received 41
collective applications from 321 communities for a total of $4.6
million, and awarded 13 collective grants for 182 communities.
Ashland and Price counties were next on the list, but the money was
gone. The Agricultural and Natural Resources Agent of Price County
of University of Wisconsin-Extension, Mark Kopecky, said he would
like to help in Smart Growth planning if communities can do it with
their own money. He also pointed out that they can suspend action
until next year and seek 2004 Smart Growth grants. -- The Bee
2/19/2003
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