Wisconsin Dells Convention Hosting Stage II - New Nuisance Ordinance

The Village of Lake Delton has given the Kalahari Resort 10 million publicly collected dollars to build a convention center ( 212 thousand square feet) capable of serving large regional - national groups.  This is expected to attract a huge new population of shared customers in to the Wisconsin Dells area.  In a meeting on June 10, 2019 the Village of Lake Delton Board passed a new nuisance ordinance - with more transient people populating pockets of the Wisconsin Dells area this will be a new approach to addressing the nuisances this activity can create.

Wisconsin Dells is a community of transients.  Thousands of work experience travelers come through the J1VISA Program for about a 90 day stay in the Wisconsin Dells area.  Past tourism calculations indicate over 4 million tourists visited the Wisconsin Dells area in a one year period.

The community has discovered this coming and going can create situations on property that rise to the level of a legal nuisance.  Chronic complaints of noise, increase traffic, litter, trespassing, destruction of property, and other difficulties can contribute to the need for interventions by public services.  The Village of Lake Delton has crafted a new nuisance ordinance in anticipation of a higher need for public services - as the Wisconsin Dells area moves forward with stage II of the convention hosting industry.

Pictured is Kalahari Drive - to the left is a residential neighborhood, to the right is the Kalahari Resort - with a new convention center coming which assures larger than ever populations upon this parcel of land.  The Village of Lake Delton can sense that the coming drastic increase in the number of people in this area - can create situations that could rise to the level of a legal nuisance.

The new nuisance ordinance involves a cross- departmental plan as soon as a nuisance is identified.  The Village of Lake Delton is employing a shared cloud based data base to track the public services being consumed by the property identified as a source of the nuisance.  Interdepartmental expenses will be calculated to demonstrate the need for a plan to proceed with the identified nuisance.

Can you see how the placement of 600 work experience travelers on Lake Avenue may result in complaints that rise to the level of a legal nuisance.  The new nuisance ordinance has been written by the Village of Lake Delton for this very purpose.  The new nuisance ordinance encourages the community to be mindful of an escalating nuisance - and brings all the public service departments together to agree on a solution.

The Wisconsin Dells area is a global community and local ordinances are being forged to help adapt to these changes.  The Wisconsin Dells area has entered stage II of the convention hosting industry.