Number
201288
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
080641, 161076
Sponsor
ALD. DIMITRIJEVIC
Title
A substitute resolution directing the Department of City Development to develop a Bay View Neighborhood Plan that will amend the Southeast Side Area Comprehensive Plan, part of the City of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan, in the 14th Aldermanic District, and authorizing a transfer of funds from the Capital Improvements Advance Planning Fund to a subaccount for the Bay View Neighborhood Plan.
Analysis
This substitute resolution directs the Department of City Development to prepare a Bay View Neighborhood Plan that, upon approval of the Common Council, will amend the Southeast Side Area Comprehensive Plan as part of the City of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan and authorizes a transfer of funds from the Capital Improvements Advance Planning Fund to a subaccount for developing the Bay View Neighborhood Plan.
Body
Whereas, Section 66.1001, Wisconsin Statutes, requires that all cities adopt a comprehensive plan and specifies that comprehensive plans shall be updated no less than once every 10 years; and
Whereas, On October 29, 2008 the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”) adopted Common Council File No. 080641, approving the Southeast Side Area Comprehensive Plan as an element of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Milwaukee; and
Whereas, The City’s procedures for comprehensive planning call for the creation of plan updates, based on emerging land use issues and opportunities, neighborhood input and other factors; and
Whereas, Since the adoption of the Southeast Side Area Comprehensive Plan, there has been increasing development activity in the Bay View neighborhood; and
Whereas, There is a need to build consensus around future development in Bay View that takes into consideration resident, business, and other stakeholder priorities; and
Whereas, The Bay View Neighborhood Plan will include recommendations related to land use,...
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