Number
150276
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Resolution creating an Arena Land Use Planning Task Force.
Analysis
This resolution creates an Arena Land Use Planning Task Force to provide expertise and recommendations to the Common Council relating to the Milwaukee Bucks’ proposed planned development and the proposed development agreement between the City of Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Bucks and/or affiliated entities. The Task Force shall consist of five members appointed by the Common Council President who shall represent various disciplines, including architecture, civil engineering, land use planning, real estate finance and economics. The Common Council President shall also designate the chair of the Task Force.
The Arena Land Use Planning Task Force shall present its observations, findings and recommendations on the proposed planned development and proposed development agreement between the City of Milwaukee and Milwaukee Bucks and/or affiliated entities to the Common Council within 30 days of adoption of this resolution, and upon submission of the report, be automatically dissolved.
Body
Whereas, The Milwaukee Bucks have proposed a master plan for a real estate development that will include a new NBA arena and be located on approximately 24 acres of largely public lands in the Westown area of Downtown Milwaukee; and
Whereas, The master plan for this development calls for a new basketball arena as well as bars, restaurants, entertainment venues, retail businesses, hotels, office buildings, residential buildings, plazas, parking structures and surface parking lots, and will most likely involve street vacations, new streets, street reconstruction, landscaping, pedestrian amenities, public transit infrastructure and utility relocations; and
Whereas, This master plan represents one of the largest planned developments in the history of Downtown Milwaukee - one for which the scale, scope and complexity of the project offer ma...
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