Section 16.9675. Land activities.

  The department shall do all of the following:

(1)  Identify state land use goals and recommend these goals to the governor.

(2)  Identify state land use priorities to further the state's land use goals and recommend to the governor legislation to implement these priorities.

(3)  Study areas of cooperation and coordination in the state's land use statutes and recommend to the governor legislation to harmonize these statutes to further the state's land use goals.

(4)  Study areas of the state's land use statutes that conflict with each other and recommend to the governor legislation to resolve these conflicts to further the state's land use goals.

(5)  Identify areas of the state's land use statutes that conflict with county or municipal land use ordinances, and areas of county or municipal land use ordinances that conflict with each other, and recommend to the governor legislation to resolve these conflicts.

(6)  Establish a state agency resource working group that is composed of representatives of the departments of administration; agriculture, trade and consumer protection; commerce; natural resources; revenue; transportation; and other appropriate agencies to discuss, analyze, and address land use issues and related policy issues, including the following:

(a) Gathering information about the land use plans of state agencies.

(b) Establishing procedures for the distribution of the information gathered under par. (a) to other state agencies, local units of government, and private persons.

(c) Creating a system to facilitate, and to provide training and technical assistance for the development of, local intergovernmental land use planning.

(7)  Study the activities of local units of government in the land use area to determine how these activities impact on state land use goals, and recommend to the governor legislation that fosters coordination between local land use activities and state land use goals.

(8)  Identify procedures for facilitating local land use planning efforts, including training and technical assistance for local units of government, and recommend to the governor legislation to implement such procedures.

(9)  Gather and analyze information about the land use activities in this state of the federal government and American Indian governments and inform the governor of the impact of these activities on state land use goals.

(10)  Study any other issues that are reasonably related to the state's land use goals, including methods for alternative dispute resolution for disputes involving land use issues, and recommend to the governor legislation in the areas studied by the department that would further the state's land use goals.

(11)  Gather information about land use issues in any reasonable way, including the following:

(a) Establishing a state-local government-private sector working group to study and advise the department on land use issues.

(b) Holding public hearings or information meetings on land use issues.

(c) Conducting surveys on land use issues.

(d) Consulting with any person who is interested in land use issues.

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