BROWN COUNTY, WI (WTAQ) – Community members are being asked to put on their thinking caps and bring their ideas to a public meeting tomorrow.
An open meeting will be held at the Neville Public Museum starting at 6 PM to discuss the future plans of Renard Island.
“We’re looking for ideas, we’re asking people to come with their ideas,” says Brown County Port & Resource Recovery Director Dean Haen.
He explains the current situation.
“Most recently Brown County put in a causeway and took ownership of the causeway and the island,” explains Haen. “Now the county has 55-acres of waterfront property.”
He believes the entire community has a unique opportunity.
“How often do you have 55 acres of waterfront property that you have a say in how you are going to use it in the very near future?”
A planning and design consultant team for the Island’s end-use plan, SmithGroup, will be meeting with stakeholder focus groups throughout the day and will host the public meeting in the evening.
Potential end-use goals could include a mix of recreational projects such as fishing piers and recreational trails.
The Island was constructed in 1978 and it was an area that held 2.7 million cubic yards of contaminated dredged sediment until 1997.
