STATE EX REL. ANDERSON v. TOWN OF NEWBOLD

No. 2018AP547.

954 N.W.2d 323 (2021)

2021 WI 6

STATE of Wisconsin EX REL. Michael ANDERSON, Petitioner-Appellant-Petitioner, v. TOWN OF NEWBOLD, Respondent-Respondent.

Supreme Court of Wisconsin.

Opinion Filed: January 27, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

For the petitioner-appellant-petitioner, there were briefs filed by Timothy B. Melms , Mary M. Hogan , and Hogan & Melms, LLP, Rhinelander. There was an oral argument by Timothy B. Melms and Mary M. Hogan .

For the respondent-respondent, there was a brief submitted by Daniel L. Vande Zande , Sam Kaufman , and Vande Zande & Kaufman, LLP, Waupun. There was an oral argument by Daniel L. Vande Zande .

An amicus curiae brief was submitted on behalf of Wisconsin Association of Lakes, Inc., Big Portage Lake Riparian Owners Association, Blue Lake Preservation Association, Ballard-Irving-White Birch Lakes Association, Inc., Deer Lake Improvement Association, Wildcat Lake Association, Lake Katherine Association, Inc. and Plum Lake Association by Christa O. Westerberg and Pines Bach LLP, Madison.

An amicus curiae brief was submitted on behalf of Wisconsin Towns Association by Joseph Ruth , Shawano.

An amicus curiae brief was submitted on behalf of Wisconsin Realtors Association and Wisconsin Builders Association by Thomas D. Larson , Madison. There was an oral argument by Thomas D. Larson .

ANN WALSH BRADLEY, J., delivered the majority opinion of the Court in which ROGGENSAKC, C.J., ZIEGLER, DALLET, and KAROFSKY, JJ., joined. HAGEDORN, J., filed a dissenting opinion, in which REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J., joined.


¶1 The petitioner, Michael Anderson, seeks review of a published court of appeals decision affirming the circuit court's order upholding the Town of Newbold's denial of Anderson's attempt to subdivide his property.1 Anderson's proposed subdivision was denied by the Town because the two resulting...

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