Council approves bluffland protection rules
Three years of research, discussion and public hearings will officially come to an end next month. Last night the Winona City Council passed the proposed bluffland protection ordinance, but with a couple of modifications. Language concerning what defines a blufftop was changed. The original document defined a blufftop as the highest point of a one hundred foot segment where the average slope is greater than 25 percent. However, the slope restriction was increased to 18 percent. Those changes will be adopted for the final version of the ordinance. Council members Tim Breza and George Borzyskowski voted against the document because of the final changes. Both faulted the document for being too limiting to development, a move that would hinder any expansion of the city's tax base. The city council could vote to officially adopt the proposal next month.
