Powered Up Baraboo is a local non-profit organization that promotes the use of energy efficiency, the use of renewable energy, and other practices which reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Baraboo and Sauk County area.
The City of Baraboo 2040 Comprehensive Plan will guide development in Baraboo for the next twenty years. By advocating for policies that stop urban sprawl and promote walkability and bikeability of city streets, we reduce the need for cars (and accompanying harmful greenhouse gas emissions) and promote citizen health.
PUB is suggesting that you ask that a new “phase 1” prioritizing infill development be added to the plan for future development (see pages 171 to 175).
In addition, you could urge that a TIF policy be created to focus on infill development (and not give tax incentives to developers who want to build on undeveloped greenfield areas).
The Comprehensive Plan will be voted on by the Plan Commission at their meeting scheduled for September 17 at 5:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building. The Common Council will vote on the plan at a subsequent meeting. (This schedule could change.) City residents, as well as those who shop/work/attend school in Baraboo, are welcome to give written comments and also speak in the public comment time at the Plan Commission and/or Common Council meetings.
Send your comments to Nate Day, Senior Planner at SEH (Short Elliot Hendrickson): nday@sehinc.com
Climate Action Workshop
What actions should people, corporations, and nations take to help substantially lower global temperature and prevent further climate disasters?
Join us at the Carnegie-Schadde Memorial Public Library on Thursday, September 26 at 6:30 pm, when Dave Kinzer, a trained facilitator in the En-ROADS Climate Simulation software, will present a free climate workshop to give participants hands-on experience in changing factors affecting our global temperature and seeing the effect one or more of these changes will have on the climate. Workshop participants will see global climate results in real time as they adjust variables such as energy supply subsidies, energy efficiency, land use changes, and fossil fuel taxes. They will discuss ideas for how such changes can be made. Participants will come away with concrete ideas for their own evidence-based climate action. This free program is co-sponsored by Powered Up Baraboo and the Carnegie-Schadde Memorial Public Library.
Baraboo Comprehensive Plan
Open House
On Thursday, September 5, concerned citizens of Baraboo turned out for the open house session at the Carnegie-Schadde Memorial Public Library to learn more and express their opinions about the draft of the Comprehensive Plan.
The Comprehensive Plan will be voted on by the Plan Commission at their meeting scheduled for September 17 at 5:15 p.m. at the Municipal Building. The Common Council will vote on the plan at a subsequent meeting. (This schedule could change.) City residents, as well as those who shop/work/attend school in Baraboo, are welcome to give written comments and also speak in the public comment time at the Plan Commission and/or Common Council meetings. (See "Your Input is Requested" above for ideas of possible areas of comment.)
Do you know someone who might be interested in receiving the PUB CONNECTIONS newsletter and favors working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the Baraboo and Sauk County area? Leave a message at the PUB website contact page.
