City of Milwaukee - File #: 051412

• File #: 051412
• Version: 0
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 2/7/2006
• In control: JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE
• Final action: 2/28/2006
• Title: Resolution requesting the United States Congress to pass federal legislation relating to the location of group living facilities.
• Sponsors: ALD. BOHL, ALD. PUENTE
• Indexes: FEDERAL LEGISLATION, LICENSED DWELLINGS, ROOMING HOUSES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
3/8/2006	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
2/28/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
2/20/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION	Pass	4:0
2/13/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/13/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/13/2006	0	JUDICIARY & LEGISLATION COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
2/7/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051412
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. BOHL AND PUENTE
Title
Resolution requesting the United States Congress to pass federal legislation relating to the location of group living facilities.
Analysis
With this resolution, the City of Milwaukee requests the United States Congress to pass federal legislation that would permit municipalities to balance the need to accommodate group living facilities in residential neighborhoods with the need to preserve the primarily owner-occupied residential character of those neighborhoods. The ability of Milwaukee and other municipalities to seek this balance has been curtailed by federal fair housing and anti-discrimination laws and related court cases, particularly cases challenging to local facility-spacing requirements.

This resolution also directs the City Clerk to send copies of the resolution to all members of Wisconsin’s congressional delegation
Body
Whereas, As of January, 2006, the City of Milwaukee contained 285 licensed community living arrangements, adult family homes and shelter care facilities; and

Whereas, License applications for an additional 66 group living facilities to be located in Milwaukee were pending as of January, 2006; and

Whereas, This proliferation of group living facilities is occurring not just in Milwaukee, but in communities across Wisconsin and the nation; and

Whereas, Group living facilities tend to locate in residential neighborhoods with affordable housing stock, thereby leading to concentrations of group living facilities in certain communities and an overall uneven distribution of facilities; and

Whereas, The concentration of corporate-owned group living facilities in certain communities can erode the owner-occupied, single-family character of those communities; and

Whereas, Until recently, the City of Milwaukee regulated the location of group living facilities by requiring that they be located at least 2,500 feet from one another or obtain special zonin...