“I think the ordinance was maybe intended for big parking lots,” S. C. Swiderski LLC Business Development Manager Jacqui McElroy said in asking the Stanley Plan Commission for a parking variance at a site the company is planning apartments for in the East Business Park. The parking variance McElroy and the company she represented, along with Nathanael Popp was asking for had to

do with local city ordinance

13-2-74 (2) (c), whereby “No more than _fteen (15) parking

spaces shall be permitted in a continuous row without being interrupted by landscaping unless otherwise approved by the Plan Commission.” In addition, S. C. Swiderski sought a variance to allow for placement of a dumpster along the southwest side of the property, otherwise prohibited by ordinance 13-1-22 (o), which delimits such “rubbish contain-

See SWIDERSKI, Page 3

A company-provided drawing of one of the three mutlifamily apartment buildings planned by S.C. Swiderski of Mosinee in Stanley’s East Business Park.

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ers” from being located “in the

front or street side yard.”

Dotting its i’s and crossing its t’s, Swiderski received both variances from the Stanley Plan Commission, granted in two separate motions Monday, December 21.

As such, new apartments could be coming soon to the

East Business Park in Stanley, or rather three 16-unit buildings, with two parking spaces per unit, one in a garage, the other next to one of the apartment buildings. Onetime mayor and Stanley Plan Commission member David

Jankoski sought clari_cation from McElroy.

“So if everybody has two cars there’s enough parking space?” he asked, receiving an answer in the af_rmative.

Plans submitted by the company further stipulate that the three separate units utilizing

eight different apartment _oor

plan designs will have eight one-bedroom, 32 two-bedroom, and eight three-bedroom units come Fall 2022, or 48 units total.

Rent is penciled in on the site plan as potentially being $750-$1200, with water, heat, and internet included. The units will also have private entrances, “in-unit laundry,” and range from 702 square feet all the way up to 1,165 square feet.

With completed multifamily apartments in Antigo, Eagle River, Rice Lake, Stevens Point, Edgar, Marathon City, Weston, Wisconsin Rapids, Waupaca, and Wausau and Plover alongside other locations, McElroy went on to say that the start-to-_nish construction/rental company designs and builds each of its properties, before sticking around to oversee rental operations with an on-site presence. Given that Stanley and Wisconsin is known for white frozen water crystals this time of

year, there’s an added bene_t:

in-house snow removal by the

soon-to-be local landlord. Not all were as convinced though.

Jankoski had at least one more

question on Monday’s Plan Commission meeting.

“I have one question,” he

said. “Who’s the enforcer…to

make sure they do it the way

they say they’re going to do it?,” with landscaping at Dollar General being referenced

as an example of things that hadn’t exactly gone quite to plan, or so it seemed.

Now in the design stage,

the _rst apartment building in Stanley’s East Business Park