Number
071361
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
An ordinance relating to costs and fees for official street renamings and honorary street namings.
Sections
81-116.5 cr
81-117 rc
113-3-4-b am
113-3-4-e-5 cr
113-3-4-e-6 cr
Analysis
This ordinance requires the applicant for an official street renaming to pay all postage costs relating to the postcard survey of residents, businesses and property owners that is required to process a street renaming application. It also provides that the common council shall not conduct a public hearing on a proposed street renaming until all postcard survey-related postage costs have been paid.
This ordinance further codifies an existing department of public works policy to not refer a proposed official street renaming or a proposed honorary street naming to the common council for a public hearing until the applicant has paid all costs for fabrication and installation of the new street signs that will be required for the official renaming or honorary naming of a street.
Finally, this ordinance creates a $100 application fee for a request for an honorary street naming.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:
Part 1. Section 81-116.5 of the code is created to read:
81-116.5. Street Naming, Honorary. The application fee for an honorary street naming shall be $100.
(See s. 113-3.)
Part 2. Section 81-117 of the code is repealed and recreated to read:
81-117. Street Renaming. 1. The application fee for an official street renaming shall be $100.
2. The applicant shall pay all postage costs relating to the postcard survey of residents, businesses and property owners that is required in conjunction with an application for an official street renaming.
(See s. 113-3.)
Part 3. Section 113-3-4-b of the code is amended to read:
113-3. Naming of Public Buildings, Facilities and Streets.
4. PROCEDURE.
b. Following submission of a naming, renaming or honorary street naming proposal, and, in the case of an official street renaming, the application fee required by ch. 81, the relevant city department or agency shall evaluate the proposed name in terms of the criteria contained in this section. In the case of an official street renaming, the department or agency shall also conduct a postcard survey of residents, businesses and owners of property along the street >>, with all postage costs relating to the survey to be borne by the applicant<< . An official street renaming proposal shall not be given further consideration by the city unless the results of the postcard survey indicate that at least 50 percent of all property owners, residents and businesses along the street support the proposal. One postcard shall be sent to each owner of property along the street and to each address along the street, including each individual apartment, unit, room or suite number. No postcard survey shall be required if the renaming is initiated by the city and the renaming is necessary to eliminate a threat to public safety, such as but not limited to a situation where 2 streets have the same name and identical addresses exist or could be created.
Part 4. Section 113-3-4-e-5 and 6 of the code is created to read:
e-5. In the case of a proposed official street renaming or a proposed honorary street naming, the common council committee hearing shall not be scheduled until the applicant has paid, to the relevant city department or agency, all costs of fabricating and installing the new street signs.
e-6. In the case of a proposed official street renaming, the common council committee hearing shall not be scheduled until the applicant has paid, to the relevant city department or agency, all postage costs relating to the postcard survey required by par. b.
LRB
APPROVED AS TO FORM
__________________________
Legislative Reference Bureau
Date:______________________
Attorney
IT IS OUR OPINION THAT THE ORDINANCE
IS LEGAL AND ENFORCEABLE
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Office of the City Attorney
Date:______________________
Requestor
Department of Public Works - Infrastructure Services Division
Drafter
LRB08010-1
JDO
01/16/2008