TOWN OF MUKWONAGO - The Mukwonago Town Board decided in a special
meeting Wednesday to fine a resident whose elaborate French gardens
it said could not be opened to the public $1,000 plus costs for
violating zoning ordinances.
Town Chairman Dave Dubey said Sherry Towns, the owner of
Millennium Gardens on Highway LO, scheduled five weddings knowing
what she was doing was illegal under the town’s zoning laws. Towns
has repeatedly petitioned for a conditional use permit to hold
events on her land, which is zoned for agricultural use.
The French gardens constitute 10 acres of her 111-acre property.
She was denied each of the three times she applied for a permit by
the plan commission. The last denial was also by the town board on
May 22.
Dubey said town officials know of five violations and only found
out after a resident requested the town take action against Towns in
the form of a cease-and-desist order. John Macy, the town’s
attorney, said the order would be one option the board could take,
but it would be extreme.
Instead, he advised the board to order Towns be issued citations
for violating the zoning laws.
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