Why Do We Oppose The Iola Car Show Sand Mine? Because Of Location, Location, Location!
We Do NOT Oppose The Iola Car Show. We Oppose The Proposed Sand Mine
This NoIolaSandMine.com website has been created for the home owners and residents of the Township of Scandinavia and the Village of Iola who oppose the proposed Iola Car Show sand mine. The goal of this site is to keep everyone informed about the facts of this sand mine and to keep everyone up-to-date on the latest meetings and developments.
Our mission statement is simple: We oppose the sand mine and we are asking the Iola Car Show and Faulks Bros. to withdraw this application for the 30-acre sand mine. We are asking for No Iola Sand Mine, PERIOD. We will detail this position with facts and provide all the reasons we believe that this proposed sand mine is a terrible idea for our beautiful community. We will win this argument with FACTS. We do NOT want any shovels in the ground.
Response Appeal Brief Filed In Kewaunee County
The plaintiffs in the appeal against the proposed Conditional Use Permit for a sand mine on the Iola Car Show grounds filed their response brief — the final one from all parties — on Wednesday, October 1st with Kewaunee County Judge Jeffrey R. Wisnicky.
The plaintiffs are appealing the decision made by the Waupaca County Board of Adjustment last October that allowed Faulks Bros. to receive a permit to mine 22 acres of sand on the Iola Car Show grounds. The plaintiffs include Ron and Laura Scott, Ken and Joanne Mentzel, and Greg and Chris Ambrosius.
The plaintiffs filed their original brief with Judge Wisnicky on July 1st, stating that “The County’s entire process surrounding the Faulks CUP application has been plagued by legal and procedural errors, and the Board’s review is no exception.”
Waupaca County then filed their brief with Judge Wisnicky on September 1st and Faulks Bros. filed a separate brief on September 2nd. Our response brief stated:
“In their briefs in response, the Board and Faulks provide conflicting arguments that manage to get the law wrong in different ways. The Board relies on case law that was superseded by 2017 Wis. Act 67 to claim it could rely on promises and speculation of the applicant to find applicable standards necessary to obtain a CUP were satisfied, despite the fact that Faulks never met its burden to demonstrate that it could meet all of the standards.
“By contrast, Faulks relies on an extreme view of Act 67 that is unsupported by statute or any court decision to claim it need not meet standards at all, as long as it agrees to satisfy conditions proposed for a CUP. Along the way, both the Board and Faulks misinterpret the law on comprehensive planning and Farmland Preservation. The Court should reject the Defendants’ erroneous interpretations of the law and the arguments that flow from them.”
You can read the entire second brief by clicking the second box below. The first box is the July 1st appeal brief.
Judge Wisnicky now has all the testimony he needs in front of him. There is nothing else that needs to be done. He will likely take a few weeks before rendering his decision. Stay tuned here for that all important decision.
Who Is Behind This Website?
Welcome to NoIolaSandMine.com. I am Greg Ambrosius and I will be managing this website.
I am identifying myself because I am passionate about this cause and I want you to know directly who is providing you the information and facts about the sand mine. Having an anonymous writer doesn’t give any credibility to the argument. And I will ask everyone who posts within the comments section on Facebook to provide their names so that we can all have a factual, transparent debate about this proposed sand mine.
Do You Know What The Town of Scandinavia Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan Is? It’s Time To Find Out
Does anyone know what the Town of Scandinavia Year 2030 Comprehensive Plan is?
Probably not, but it is VERY important to our discussion and I want everyone to understand it before we get much deeper into the facts. Please take the time to read this:
So in 2003, the state of Wisconsin tasked county leaders and municipal leaders around the state to come up with a 20-25 year plan that would give them direction and a plan when it came to community growth, land use decisions like this one and more. It’s basically a road map that helps the board decide a vision for the town’s future.
What Is The Substantial Evidence Of Harm? Reduced Property Values
I think we have a very good chance to prove “substantial evidence” of harm when it comes to our property values. Will the Township of Scandinavia and/or the Village of Iola allow this permit to go through if it KNOWS FOR SURE that property values will go down? Would they allow this permit to go through knowing that property values will go down by millions of dollars?
Let’s hope not. But first we have to prove that property values will go down and we are in the process of seeing how we can hire an independent assessor to do for us what was done in Packwaukee, Wisconsin earlier this year. Oh, and by the way, the Packwaukee mine was recently defeated.
“WE DO NOT OPPOSE THE IOLA CAR SHOW. We can’t say that enough. WE OPPOSE THE PROPOSED SAND MINE.”
— Greg Ambrosius, Iola resident
Contact
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