City of Milwaukee - File #: 041383

• File #: 041383
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/1/2005
• In control: ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 2/22/2005
• Effective date: 3/11/2005
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to declaring certain vacant boarded residential buildings, structures and premises nuisances.
• Sponsors: ALD. MURPHY, ALD. BOHL, ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. D'AMATO, ALD. HINES JR., ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. DONOVAN, ALD. PUENTE, ALD. ZIELINSKI, ALD. MCGEE JR., ALD. HAMILTON, ALD. WADE, ALD. DAVIS
• Indexes: BUILDING CODE, NUISANCES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/10/2005	1	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
3/3/2005	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
2/22/2005	1	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
2/15/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	AMENDED; Minutes note: Alderman Bauman moved to amend Part 2. Section 275-32-7.5-a. by deleting the following: "excepting hardware cloth having a wire mesh of not more than number 2." Prevailed.	Pass	4:0
2/15/2005	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	5:0
2/8/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/8/2005	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/1/2005	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
041383
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. MURPHY, BOHL, BAUMAN, D'AMATO, HINES, WITKOWSKI, DONOVAN, PUENTE, ZIELINSKI, MCGEE, HAMILTON, WADE AND DAVIS
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to declaring certain vacant boarded residential buildings, structures and premises nuisances.
Sections
275-32-7-0 am
275-32-7.5 cr
Analysis
This ordinance provides that when a residential building has been found to be vacant and boarded for at least 6 months, the commissioner may order the owner to elect and undertake within 30 days one or more courses of action which include unboarding the building, filing an application for a permit for repair, rehabilitation or demolition of the building, demonstrating that the building is being actively marketed for sale and filing an application for a mothballing certificate. If the owner fails to comply with the commissioner's order to elect and undertake within the time specified one or more of the courses of action, or if the commissioner finds upon reinspection that the owner has not completed the repair, rehabilitation or demolition of the building within 180 days or is not proceeding diligently in good faith to complete the sale of the building, the commissioner may declare the building a nuisance per se and the owner may be subject to the imposition of forfeitures, injunctive actions and other remedies available at law. This ordinance is null and void after February 28, 2009.
Body
Whereas, The Common Council finds that many buildings, structures and premises that are vacant and boarded are a blight on their neighborhoods, cause deterioration and instability in their neighborhoods and have an adverse impact upon adjacent and nearby properties; and

Whereas, The Common Council further finds that many buildings, structures and premises that were previously used as residential dwellings and have since become vacant and boarded have a significant and detrimental impact on the local housin...