My 6 months at St. Croix County was focused on personally going through all seventeen Towns in County zoning, looking at each individual parcel, and determining which zoning was best for the Town based on the new zoning ordinance. These maps were presented first to internal staff, second to Town board members, and third to the public at a Public Open House on December 6th, 2018.

After showing each Town their proposed zoning and making changes necessary with their feedback, it was time to release one version of proposed zoning to the public. Rather than simply putting a webmap together and sharing it on the County website, we created a narrative to be read before the map is shown in order to educate and inform the public of our process and why the Town has the proposed zoning patterns that it does. You can view the project here at our Interactive Proposed Rezoning Story Map

Two resources which aided in determining the zoning designation for each Town was looking at their future land use and their growth projections which were from the Wisconsin state demographer. More Towns on the west are expected to grow faster than the east and had more rural residential in their future land use, while the east was projected to have slower growth and more agriculture land use.

St. Croix County Comprehensive Zoning Revision required 17 Towns in St. Croix County to be rezoned into new zoning districts. In order to show the Towns their proposed zoning, we made zoning comparison maps with their current zoning. These included a table of zoning changes and a description box to tell the Town how we concluded their zoning. These were presented at multiple meetings throughout Fall 2018 where the Towns were able to provide their feedback on their proposed zoning and the changes to the Zoning Code Chapter 17.

The County went from having one commercial zoning district and one industrial zoning district to having four commercial districts and two industrial districts. In order to properly rezone all current commercial and industrial parcels, I created a series of maps for each Town highlighting what the new proposed commercial and industrial zoning designations could be. I overlaid the districts on a 2017 aerial along with displaying its attribute table and listing its property class to help showcase why I made the rezoning designation. This process was done to analyze over 400 commercial and industrial parcels in St. Croix County and I presented my work to the Senior Planner, Land Information Administrator, and the GIS Analyst where the final zoning designation was confirmed.

After several annexations came through in 2018, the GIS Analyst at St. Croix County asked me to create a new basemap to be printed at poster size and hung on the wall of the Community Development office for all employees to be able to reference.

As requested by the Kinnickinnic River Land Trust, a parcel ownership map was created. This was done by dissolve parcel lines by owner and then labeling each sections of land.

The Town of Springfield on the Eastern edge of St. Croix County requested a smaller verison of the plat map that we made for the Kinni Land Trust. After using the same data and annotations as the original plat map, a Town sized plat map was created.

911 services for St. Croix County requested an updated Twin Cities Metropolitan base map in order to be better prepared for events that take place in the cities but bring people across the St. Croix River as well such as Super Bowl, Final 4, etc. This was my result for their request since their major concern was seeing interstates, U.S. highways, and State highways.

As requested by the Senior Planner, a map was created in order to show where in the county adult uses were allowed based off a set of new criteria. I created a model with all the requirements, ran it, and this is the result.