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File #: 050088    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/3/2005 In control: ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
On agenda: Final action: 6/14/2005
Effective date: 7/1/2005    
Title: A substitute ordinance relating to enforcement of codes against historic structures.
Sponsors: ALD. BAUMAN
Indexes: HISTORIC PRESERVATION, HISTORIC STRUCTURE
Attachments: 1. Fiscal Note.pdf, 2. Historic Plan Commission Letter.PDF, 3. Notice Published on June 30, 2005.PDF
Number
050088
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
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Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to enforcement of codes against historic structures.
Sections
200-11.5 am
308-81-7-g am
308-81-12-0 am
308-81-12-a am
Analysis
Currently, except in cases where a structure poses an immediate threat to public health and safety, the commissioner of neighborhood services shall stay enforcement of building maintenance and razing regulations, against any vacant historically designated structure, provided that the owner of the structure has obtained a mothballing certificate or a mothballing permit.

This ordinance, deletes the word, "vacant" with respect to the enforcement of building maintenance and razing regulations.

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

Part 1. Section 200-11.5 of the code is amended to read:

200-11.5. Enforcement of Codes Against Historic Structures. Except in cases where a structure poses an immediate threat to public health and safety, the commissioner shall stay enforcement of chs. 218 and 275 of this code and s. 66.0413, Wis. Stats., against any [[vacant]] structure which has local or national designation as an historic structure, or which is part of a local or national historic site or district, provided that the owner of such structure has obtained a mothballing certificate from the historic preservation commission, in accordance with the provisions of s. 308-81-12, and, subsequently, a mothballing permit from the department of city development upon payment of the fee provided in s. 200-33 and in compliance with any rules and regulations of the commissioner.

Part 2. Section 308-81-7-g of the code is amended to read:

308-81. Historic Preservation Commission.

7. FUNCTIONS, POWERS AND DUTIES.
g. Issue mothballing certificates to allow enforcement of the city's building maintenance and condemnation codes against [[vacant]] historic stru...

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