City of Milwaukee - File #: 040330

• File #: 040330
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 7/7/2004
• In control: PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE
• Final action: 7/27/2004
• Title: Resolution declaring eight vacant, tax-deed lots in the vicinity of North 38th Street and West Galena Street surplus to municipal needs and authorizing their sale to West End Development Corporation, or assigns, for residential construction, in the 15th Aldermanic District. (Department of City Development)
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: HOUSING, SURPLUS PROPERTY

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
8/5/2004	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
7/27/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
7/14/2004	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	5:0
7/12/2004	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/12/2004	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/9/2004	0	PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
7/9/2004		PUBLIC WORKS COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
7/7/2004	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
040330
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
Resolution declaring eight vacant, tax-deed lots in the vicinity of North 38th Street and West Galena Street surplus to municipal needs and authorizing their sale to West End Development Corporation, or assigns, for residential construction, in the 15th Aldermanic District. (Department of City Development)
Analysis
This resolution will result in the sale of eight vacant, tax-deed lots for residential construction.
Body
Whereas, West End Development Corporation has offered to purchase for $1 each eight vacant, tax-deed lots at 1621 and 1625 North 36th Street, 1518, 1522 and 1526 North 38th Street and 3831, 3935 and 3939 West Galena Street for assemblage into buildable lots for construction of single-family homes that will be sold to qualified owner-occupants; and

Whereas, The Department of City Development (“DCD”) recommends acceptance of said offer with closing contingent upon DCD approval of final site and building plans; and

Whereas, These lots will be sold “as is” without representations or warranties including, but not limited, to soil quality and subsurface condition; and

Whereas, After assemblage of the lots through certified survey maps, West End Development Corporation will transfer one buildable lot on North 38th Street to Habitat For Humanity, Inc., for construction of a single-family, owner-occupied home; and

Whereas, The City Plan Commission has determined that there is no municipal need for said lots; now, therefore, be it

Resolved, By the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee, that said lots are declared surplus to municipal needs and that the offer from West End Development Corporation is accepted; and, be it

Further Resolved, That the Commissioner of DCD, or assigns, is authorized and directed to perform such acts as necessary to carry out the intent of this resolution with the proceeds from the sale credited to the Reserve For Tax Deficit...