NUMB:
980960
VERS:
ORIGINAL
REF:
960259
XXBY:
ALD. HENNINGSEN
TITL:
Resolution requesting the Special Privilege Board to review and modify its special privilege annual fee schedule with respect to special privileges for historic properties.
ANLS:
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This resolution requests the Special Privilege Board to review and amend its special privilege annual fee schedule to establish a new encroachment class and corresponding lower fees for properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places or designated as historic structures or sites by the City.
BODY:
Whereas, Section 245-12 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances regulates the granting of special privileges by the Common Council; and
Whereas, Section 245-12-3-c requires that the grantee of a special privilege pay an annual fee fixed by the Special Privilege Board, which consists of the mayor, the commissioner of public works and the city attorney; and
Whereas, The Special Privilege Board adopted an updated special privilege annual fee schedule on January 27, 1993; and
Whereas, The Common Council endorsed this fee schedule when it adopted File Number 922103 on May 4, 1993; and
Whereas, On July 12, 1996, the Common Council adopted File Number 960259, a resolution granting a special privilege to Milwaukee Turners, Inc., to renovate and maintain a building entrance in the public right-of-way adjacent to the Turners' property at 1034 North 4th Street; and
Whereas, Milwaukee Turners, Inc., is required by File 960259 to pay an annual special privilege fee of $611.69 for the encroachment of its entrance onto North 4th Street, even though the entrance has long been part of the Turners' building, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and even though Milwaukee Turners, Inc., a non-profit organization, expended considerable financial resources on renovating its building in an historically sensitive manner; and
Whereas, The Common Council find...
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