Element: Utilities and Community Facilities
What is this element and how is forestry connected to it?
This element addresses the current and future need of
utilities and community facilities within a community.
As Wisconsin becomes more urbanized, there are more
pressures placed on both urban and rural forests.
This issue helps to address some of these pressures,
including fragmentation of forests from the expansion of utility
corridors to serve increasing populations,
the potential devastating effects of exotic and
invasive species, increased pressure on forests
for recreation, as well as the need for more comprehensive
forest fire prevention strategies and facilities
as more people move in to rural areas.
Use the tools below to develop goals, objectives, and policies that address this element.
Consider Related Issues
Fire in the Wildland Urban Interface
Forest Health
Forest Fragmentation
Forest-based Recreation
Healthy Urban Forests
Statutory Language
Wis. Stats. s. 66.1001(2)(h) Utilities and Community Facilities Element
A compilation of objectives,
policies, goals, maps and programs to guide the
future development of utilities and community facilities
in the local governmental unit such as sanitary
sewer service, storm water management, water supply,
solid waste disposal, on-site wastewater treatment
technologies, recycling facilities, parks, telecommunications
facilities, power-generating plants and transmission
lines, cemeteries, health care facilities, child
care facilities and other public facilities, such
as police, fire and rescue facilities, libraries,
schools and other governmental facilities. The element
shall describe the location, use and capacity of
existing public utilities and community facilities
that serve the local governmental unit, shall include
an approximate timetable that forecasts the need
in the local governmental unit to expand or rehabilitate
existing utilities and facilities or to create new
utilities and facilities and shall assess future
needs for government services in the local governmental
unit that are related to such utilities and facilities.
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