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File #: 161372    Version: 0
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 2/7/2017 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: Final action: 9/26/2017
Effective date:    
Title: Substitute resolution amending a special privilege to Spirit of Milwaukee Incorporated to construct and maintain one additional gateway sign in the street median of West Oklahoma Avenue east of South 74th Street, in the 11th Aldermanic District.
Sponsors: ALD. BORKOWSKI
Attachments: 1. Application.pdf, 2. Proposal, 3. Sign, 4. Layout
Number
161372
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
160256
Sponsor
Alderman Borkowski
Title
Substitute resolution amending a special privilege to Spirit of Milwaukee Incorporated to construct and maintain one additional gateway sign in the street median of West Oklahoma Avenue east of South 74th Street, in the 11th Aldermanic District.
Analysis
This resolution amends a special privilege to Spirit of Milwaukee Incorporated to construct and maintain one additional gateway sign in the street median of West Oklahoma Avenue east of South 74th Street.
Body
Whereas, Spirit of Milwaukee Incorporated, the applicant, in cooperation with the Department of Public Works, is proposing to install gateway signage at several prominent locations within medians of various streets in order to present a more attractive and welcoming image to people entering the City of Milwaukee; and

Whereas, Each of the signs will have a corporate sponsor, that will pay the cost of fabricating and maintaining its sign and maintaining the median on which the sign will be located; and

Whereas, The applicant had requested permission for gateway signs in street medians located at South Howell Avenue north of West Grange Avenue; West Kilbourn Avenue west ofNorth 6th Street; West Fond duLac Avenue east oflnterstate Highway 43; West Capitol Drive west of North 100th Street; and the roundabout at West Canal Street and North 25th Street; and

Whereas, Permission for said signs was granted under Common Council Resolution File Number
160256;and

Whereas, The current request is to construct and maintain a gateway sign in a street median'-east of South 74th Street in West Oklahoma Avenue; and ,.

Whereas, Said new gateway sign may only legally encroach into the public right-of-way by granting of a special privilege resolution adopted by the Common Council; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council ofthe City of Milwaukee that Common Council Resolution
File Number 160256 is hereby rescinde...

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