Planning and Zoning

Select Forms & Applications for a complete list of all Zoning related applications.

Effective Adoption Dates of General Zoning Ordinance by Townships:

Buffalo (January 23, 2025)                  Moundville (April 28, 1975) 

Crystal Lake (June 25, 1986)              Neshkoro (July 20, 1990)     

Douglas (October 26, 1976)                Newton (September 2, 1992)             

Harris (April 3, 1974)                           Oxford (October 20, 2015)              

Mecan (November 19, 2009)               Packwaukee (June 9, 1992)      

Montello (April 16, 1990)                    Westfield (April 17, 1974)  

Unzoned townships include: Shields and Springfield.  (Except within Shoreland boundaries, where county zoning ordinances apply.)

Planning

Planning duties include the preparation and implementation of Comprehensive Planning and the Farmland Preservation program,

Zoning

Zoning duties include the administration of the County’s general zoning, floodplain, shoreland, private sanitation system (POWTS), subdivision, tourist rooming house, and wireless communication facilities ordinances. These ordinances are administered and enforced in those townships that have adopted county zoning.