City of Milwaukee - File #: 031614

• File #: 031614
• Version: 3
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/2/2004
• In control: ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 11/3/2004
• Effective date: 11/20/2004
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to zoning regulations for currency exchanges, payday loan agencies and title loan agencies.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL, ALD. DAVIS, ALD. MURPHY, ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. DUDZIK, ALD. WADE
• Indexes: BANKS AND LENDING INSTITUTIONS, ZONING

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
12/17/2013	1	COMMON COUNCIL	DRAFT SUBMITTED
11/26/2013		COMMON COUNCIL	REFERRED TO
11/19/2004	3	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
11/11/2004	3	MAYOR	SIGNED
11/3/2004	3	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
10/20/2004	3	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Wade added as co-sponsor.
10/19/2004	3	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE; Minutes note: Ald. Bohl appeared and address the Committee. Ald. Wade made Journel/Sentinel articles a part of the record. Prevailed. Ald. Murphy made map a part of the record. Prevailed. Ald. Wade made Ald. Bohl's service requests part of the record. Prevailed. Ald. Bauman made letters from Burleigh Street Community Dev. Corp., Villard Ave. Business Assoc. and Brady Block Assoc. a part of the record. Prevailed. Ald. Wade requested to be added as co-sponsor.	Pass	5:0
10/18/2004	3	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Dudzik added as co-sponsor.
10/14/2004	3	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Bauman added as co-sponsor	Fail
10/14/2004	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/13/2004	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/13/2004	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
10/13/2004	3	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Murphy and Ald. D'Amato added as sponsors
10/8/2004	3	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
10/1/2004	2	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED; Minutes note: This file is being published on 10/01/04 and 10/08/04 for a CPC Mtg. on 10/18/04 at 3:15 p.m.
7/29/2004	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
3/3/2004		ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
3/2/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number

031614

Version

SUBSTITUTE 3

Reference

Sponsor

ALD. BOHL, DAVIS, MURPHY, D'AMATO, BAUMAN, DUDZIK  AND WADE

Title

A substitute ordinance relating to zoning regulations for currency exchanges, payday loan agencies and title loan agencies.

Sections

295-311-2-h cr

Analysis

This ordinance requires any new currency exchange, payday loan agency or title loan agency to be located:

1.  At least 1,500 feet from any existing currency exchange, payday loan agency or title loan agency.

2.  At least 150 feet from any single-family or 2-family residential zoning district.

Body

Whereas, The city of Milwaukee has witnessed a proliferation of payday loan agencies and similar businesses that make non-traditional, short-term consumer loans; and

Whereas, "Convenient cash" businesses (i.e., check-cashing businesses, payday loan stores, etc.) have been the locations of several violent crimes in the city of Milwaukee, including two incidents in November, 2003, that left one person dead and two others wounded; and

Whereas, "Convenient cash" businesses, because of the frequency of cash transactions and the amount of money exchanged, are attractive to criminals seeking to make a "quick buck" by committing robberies; and

Whereas, For these reasons, the Common Council finds that the health, safety and welfare of Milwaukee residents should be protected by legislation limiting the geographic concentration of payday loan business and similar establishments and the proximity of such establishments to residentially-zoned areas; now, therefore, be it

The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1.  Section 295-311-2-h of the code is created to read:

295-311.  Appeals.

2.  SPECIAL USE PERMITS.

h.  Additional Findings for Currency Exchange, Payday Loan Agency or Title Loan Agency.  No special use permit for a currency exchange, payday loan agency or title loan agency shall be granted by the board unless the board finds, in addition to the findings required by par. d, that:

h-1.  No other currency exchange, payday loan agency or title loan agency is located within 1,500 feet of the proposed use.

h-2.  The proposed use will not be located within 150 feet of a single-family or 2-family residential zoning district.

LRB

APPROVED AS TO FORM

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Legislative Reference Bureau

Date:_____________________

Attorney

IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE

IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE

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Office of the City Attorney

Date:____________________

Requestor

Drafter

LRB04099-4

JDO

10/08/04