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Site plan approved for Radue Homes office building

By Kevin Boneske
Staff Writer


ASHWAUBENON – A site plan for Radue Homes to build a new 7,344-square-foot office and garage at 2585 S. Broadway was approved Tuesday, Dec. 3, by the village Site Plan Review Committee.

The single-story structure for Radue Homes will be built on the south side of the parcel, which is located south of the Brown County Transfer Station and west of the Bay Harbor condominium development that has a berm to be separate from the office and garage.

This drawing depicts the planned single-story, 7,344-square-foot office and garage for Radue Homes at 2585 S. Broadway in Ashwaubenon.

The site plan calls for the exterior materials to include a mix of brick, fiberglass wall panels with concealed fasteners and vertical siding to accent the windows on the north and east elevations.

Community Development Director Aaron Schuette said the submitted Radue Homes plans indicate a future phase of development with a parking lot and a second building on the north side of the parcel.

However, Schuette said at this time the developer is not planning to go ahead with that portion, which likely would result in more than an acre of total land disturbance and then require a storm water management plan, etc.

Rooftop screening

Plans from Wisconsin Public Service for additional heating, ventilation and air conditioning equipment and duct work, to replace some existing rooftop units as well as some existing units installed in the interior of WPS’s service garage at 2850 S. Ashland Ave. focused during the meeting on a village requirement the rooftop equipment be screened from view.

With the maximum height above the roof of a new unit being 8 feet, Building Inspector Eric Baumann said the placement of 7-foot screening with a slatted fence at the building perimeter would conceal a rooftop unit and accompanying duct work, as well as the eight exhaust fans.

However, representatives from WPS appearing before the committee questioned the need for the screening and whether it could even work, given the possible wind load on top of the roof.

Village President Mary Kardoskee said making an exception for WPS to not require the screening could result in others also not wanting to meet that requirement.

“That would be my concern,” she said. “How do you do it for one and not any others? We do have people who are needing to put screens up.”

If it could be shown with a structural analysis the building could not support the wind load with the screening, Schuette said the committee could grant an exception to the requirement.

“That I believe may qualify for that exception unique to the property itself,” he said.

The committee approved WPS’s request to install the additional HVAC equipment and duct work on the condition the company conduct a structural analysis of the building to determine if it can support the screening, and if not, provide the committee documentation to determine whether to grant an exception to the requirement.

Concealed fasteners

The committee discussed another village requirement related to using metal wall panels with concealed fasteners for an addition at 999 Ashwaubenon St.

Schuette said village inspection staff last year discovered exposed fasteners, which are not allowed under the village code, were used on the addition.

To resolve the matter, the committee approved allowing 10-foot sections of formed metal channels to be glued on to cover up the screws.

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