Number
010087
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
82-2097-a
Sponsor
ALD. JOHNSON-ODOM
Title
Resolution designating amended boundaries for the North 7th Street/West Garfield Avenue Redevelopment Project Area and declaring such area to be a blighted area in need of a redevelopment project. (DCD)
Analysis
If adopted by two-thirds vote of the Common Council membership, this resolution will expand the boundaries of the North 7th Street/West Garfield Avenue Redevelopment Project Area to include additional properties and enable the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee to proceed with the preparation of an amended Redevelopment Plan for the enlarged area.
Body
Whereas, In File No. 82-2097-a adopted on May 17, 1983, the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee ("Common Council") approved the North 7th Street/West Garfield Avenue Redevelopment Project Plan; and
Whereas, The Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee ("Authority") deems it desirable to expand the subject redevelopment area and to prepare an amended redevelopment plan for the area generally located between West Garfield Avenue, West Meinecke Avenue, North 4th Street and North 7th Street; and
Whereas, As a first step in the exercise of powers granted for the acquisition and disposition of real property in a project area, Section 66.1333, Wisconsin Statutes, as amended, requires that the Authority designate boundaries of a proposed project area to ascertain the names of the owners of record of the real property within such project area which are to be given official public notice and also to submit such boundaries to the Common Council for approval and for a declaration that such area is a blighted area in need of blight elimination and a redevelopment project; and
Whereas, On April 19, 2001, the Authority designated boundaries for the enlarged North 7th Street/West Garfield Avenue Redevelopment Project which qualifies as a "blighted area" under Section 66.1333(2m)(6), ...
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