Advertisement Amy Zietlow has requested a conditional-use permit for a 6,200-square-foot facility that will include three classroom studios and a massage room.
A love of physical activity is one reason Zietlow and her husband, Steve, wants to launch the new center. “Our family really enjoys working out,” she said.
The new center will not have exercise equipment, however. “We are not having equipment,” she said. “We’ll use the body for strength training and lots of movement. We’ll just have group classes.”
Shake N’ Shed Fitness would offer classes in Hip Hop Hustle, Piyo, Zumba, kickboxing, exercises for babies and pre/postnatal exercise programs and classes for people with special needs.
The Zietlows’ daughter was born with schizoencephaly, a brain disorder that has left her paralyzed on one side of her body. Her condition helped inspire them to offer classes for people of all ages with varying degrees of disability.
“It’s something my husband and I have always wanted to do,” Zietlow said. “This opened up the opportunity for us, and I have wonderful teachers coming in that we’re really proud of.”
“It will be a family-oriented business with children’s classes and a wide variety of classes that people will love and want to be there,” Zietlow said.
The proposal will be subject to a public hearing at the Nov. 25 Plan Commission meeting.
Subcommittee members also moved to protect Onalaska’s eastern boundary by authorizing the city’s attorney to draft an ordinance to clarify how decisions would be made under extra-territorial plat review.
Extra-territorial plat review authority is granted under state law. Cities of a certain size have the right to approve or reject development applications lying three miles outside their borders. Villages such as West Salem have the right to approve or reject development lying one and a half miles outside their borders.
The request by four property owners in the town of Hamilton to annex to West Salem, if approved, would affect those rights of Onalaska’s.
According to Land Use and Development Director Jason Gilman, an existing ordinance does not spell out the criteria the city will use to make decisions.
“We are shoring up that part of the code so that when we make decsions about extra-territorial subdivisions, we use those criteria to make those decisions.” He also said the ordinance will guide the city’s actions so they are in concert with the comprehensive plan.
Subcommittee member Skip Temte moved to have the idea go to the full Plan Commission. “This is a very necessary step on our part to protect ourselves since (Hamilton and West Salem) have been unwilling to discuss this in negotiations. This is in our best interest.”
