Opponents and proponents of a proposed Wal-Mart Supercenter will have a chance to speak their minds before the Muskego Plan Commission on Tuesday, June 3.

In anticipation of a large crowd, the public hearing will be in the old cafeteria at Muskego High School. The commission will take up the item on its regular agenda that night.

“They can approve it,” Adam Trzebiatowski, associate planner for the city, said. “Or, if they have more concerns, they can delay or deny it.”

If the commission does approve the plans it will be the last formal meeting Wal-Mart representatives have to attend to get city approval, Trzebiatowski said. The property, on the east side of Moorland Road south of College Avenue, will not need rezoning and no conditional-use permit will be needed.

Revised plans expected

If approved, Wal-Mart officials still will have to obtain building permits from the city and work with other levels of government for improvements on Moorland Road. The city Planning Department was expecting Wal-Mart to bring in revised plans late last week, Trzebiatowski said.

At the last Plan Commission meeting, commissioners had criticized the back of the store for its plain design, which gave it a big-box look. A line of trees, which would screen the 152,000-square-foot building from neighbors to the east, was said to need filling out with evergreen trees to provide year-round screening.

Commissioners also voiced concern about shielding neighbors in the Glenbrook subdivision from lights and loading dock noise.

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