Planning Commission

The Planning Commission meets at City Hall every second Tuesday of each month at 7:00PM. The commission is comprised of five members appointed by the Mayor and approved by the City Council to serve a three-year term. Members of the Planning Commission are appointed in September. 

Duties of the Planning Commission include:

• To make or cause to be made, or to update annually, a Comprehensive Plan for the Edgerton Planning Area; to propose and recommend all revisions and amendments to the Comprehensive Plan to the Governing Body.
• To give notice of and conduct all public hearings pertaining to matters of zoning, planning, and subdivision.
• To recommend all actions, after hearing, concerning zoning text and map amendments, and conditional uses for consideration to the Governing Body.
• To review for final approval or disapproval all required site plans and preliminary and final plats.
• To add conditions to subdivision plats and zoning map amendments when, in the opinion of a majority of Planning Commissioners, such conditions are essential to the preservation of property values, the public health, safety and welfare, and the peaceful and quiet enjoyment of property.
• To grant area and bulk variances on preliminary subdivision plats when, in the opinion of a majority of the Planning Commissioners, such variations are essential to preserve natural resources, overcome practical difficulty, and serve the public interest.
• To hold an annual meeting in June of each year for the purpose of electing a Planning Commission Chair, a Vice Chair, and a Secretary.
• To hold an annual meeting for the purpose of reviewing the Comprehensive Plan and to update or amend the Plan as necessary.