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Village of Athens zoning map, an updated zoning map was developed to reflect the latest land use regulations, community planning objectives, and growth patterns. The map serves as a critical tool for local government, and residents, ensuring clarity around zoning districts, permitted land uses, and development guidelines. This enhanced zoning map promotes better decision-making, more efficient land management, and clearer communication with stakeholders.
We have been creating economy overviews for all ten of our counties along with Centergy and Grow North regions. We have reports from 2018 to 2024 – More information is about EMSI reports HERE. We also have historic reports back to 2013 if you are intrerested.
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are an opportunity to make walking and bicycling to school safer for children in grades K-8, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. On a broader level, SRTS programs can enhance children’s health and well-being, ease traffic congestion near the school, and improve community members’ overall quality of life.
In 2018, the City of Wausau and the Wausau School District won a WisDOT SRTS planning grant to create a SRTS Plan.
In the fall of 2021, the City of Wausau and the Wausau School District began SRTS Planning with the assistance of the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (NCWRPC). The NCWRPC is guiding the Wausau SRTS Task Force through the planning process.
Data collection occurred in spring & summer 2022. Further analysis with the SRTS Task Force will occur throughout the 2022-2023 school year.
Plan development occurred in 2023.
Plan review and revision will occur throughout the 2023-2024 school year.
Plan adoption is anticipated in spring/summer 2024.
Implementation of the Wausau SRTS Plan can begin anytime thereafter into many years later.
Schools in Wausau SRTS Plan:
John Muir Middle School Thomas Jefferson Elementary Grant Elementary G.D. Jones Elementary Lincoln Elementary
Horace Mann Middle School Riverview Elementary Franklin Elementary Hawthorn Hills Elementary John Marshall Elementary
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are an opportunity to make walking and bicycling to school safer for children in grades K-8, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. On a broader level, SRTS programs can enhance children’s health and well-being, ease traffic congestion near the school, and improve community members’ overall quality of life.
Planning Process In 2022, the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and School District of Athens won a WisDOT SRTS planning grant to create a SRTS Plan for Athens Elementary. In the fall of 2023, the Village and Athens Elementary began SRTS Planning with the assistance of the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (NCWRPC). The NCWRPC guided the Athens Elementary SRTS Task Force through the planning process.
Athens Elementary SRTS Task Force Joy Redmann, Athens Elementary Principal Jamey Handschke, Buildings and Grounds Supervisor Andrea Sheridan, Superintendent Tanner Nowacki, Evening Custodian Julie Weideman, Parent Carla Nowak, Kindergarten Teacher Kathy Luther, Grade 2 Teacher Beth Steinke, Business Office Manager Bridget Kottke, Parent Officer Aaron Stencil, Athens Police Department Lisa Czech, Clerk, Village of Athens Fred Heider, Planner, North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
School Data Athens Elementary -Parent Survey Results Map 3 – Site Assessment (Not available yet.) Map 4 – Transportation (Not available yet.) Map 5 – School Routes (Not available yet.) Map 6 – Recommendations (Not available yet.)
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are an opportunity to make walking and bicycling to school safer for children in grades K-8, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. On a broader level, SRTS programs can enhance children’s health and well-being, ease traffic congestion near the school, and improve community members’ overall quality of life.
Planning Process In 2022, the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and School District of Spencer won a WisDOT SRTS planning grant to create a SRTS Plan for Spencer Elementary and Spencer Middle/High School. In the fall of 2022, Spencer and Spencer Public Schools began SRTS Planning with the assistance of the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (NCWRPC). The NCWRPC guided the Spencer SRTS Task Force through the planning process.
Spencer SRTS Task Force Mike Endreas, District Administrator Paul Hensch, Village Administrator/Clerk/Treasurer Barb Wesle, Spencer School Board Brooke Krause, Spencer PTA/Parent Brad Bauer, Spencer Police Department Edward Ikert, Spencer Elementary School Principal Fred Heider, Planner, North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Safe Routes to School (SRTS) programs are an opportunity to make walking and bicycling to school safer for children in grades K-8, and to increase the number of children who choose to walk and bicycle. On a broader level, SRTS programs can enhance children’s health and well-being, ease traffic congestion near the school, and improve community members’ overall quality of life.
In 2022, the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and Weston Elementary won a WisDOT SRTS planning grant to create a SRTS Plan for Weston Elementary. In the fall of 2022, Weston Elementary began SRTS Planning with the assistance of the North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (NCWRPC). The NCWRPC is guiding the Weston Elementary SRTS Task Force through the planning process.
Weston Elementary SRTS Task Force
Kelly Ziegelbauer, Principal Jason Jablonski, DCE Buildings and Grounds Chris Nichols, DCE Finance Department Tiffany Wurz, Parent Greg Schremp, School Resource Officer Karen Wegge, DCE K-12 Physical Education/Health Curriculum Coordinator Yee Xiong, DCE School Board member Michael Wodalski, Village Director of Public Works Fred Heider, Planner, North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission
Every few years, NCWRPC updates basic demographic and economic development information in the form of County Profiles, which provide a snapshot of current economic trends and opportunities for economic growth. Included is a map of business park locations where acreage is available as well as contacts for various economic development agencies and programs.
Federal transit law requires that any projects selected for funding under the Section 5310 Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities (formerly titled Elderly and Disabled Capital Assistance Program) must be derived from a “locally developed, coordinated public transit-human services transportation plan”. This requirement was implemented as part of the SAFETEA-LU legislation and the requirement continues under the new transportation legislation, FAST Act (Fixing America’s Surface Transportation). The purpose of the coordinated planning process is to have stakeholder involvement in the assessment of elderly and disabled transportation, and to provide strategies and goals to improve those transportation alternatives. These coordinated plans were last completed in 2019 and are due to be updated for 2023.
This report is intended to update and replace the previous, Urban Area Sewer Service Plan for the City of Stevens Point and surrounding urban area. These types of plans are also known as areawide water quality management plans.
The general purpose of this areawide water quality management plan, herein referred to as Sewer Service Area Plan, is to maintain a twenty-year sanitary sewer service boundary for the Stevens Point Urban Area and an institutional structure for implementing the Plan and managing the extension of sanitary sewage services within this urban area. The urban sanitary sewer service area boundary identifies the geographic land area within which sanitary sewer service could be made available by the year 2040 in a cost effective, environmentally acceptable manner.
EMSI / Lightcast delivers economic reports to regional planners who want expert analysis and detailed, hard-to-find data. Our consultants combine EMSI’s comprehensive labor market data and seasoned economic analysis to produce reports that analyze a broad range of workforce, education, and economic development issues. Unlike other consulting groups, we mine our own data and tailor it to create effective reports that communicate to all audiences. EMSI’s custom economic analysis includes the following major types:
Impact studies (education, workforce, and industry)