Number
180898
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
031312, 100247, 161076
Sponsor
ALD. STAMPER
Title
Resolution directing the Department of City Development to update the Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan, part of the City of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan, and authorizing a transfer of funds from the Capital Improvements-Advance Planning Fund to a subaccount for the Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan Update, in the 4th, 6th, 7th and 15th Aldermanic Districts.
Analysis
This resolution directs the Department of City Development to prepare an area comprehensive plan for the Fond du Lac and North Area that, upon approval of the Common Council, will replace the existing Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan as part of the City of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan and authorizes a transfer of funds from the Capital Improvements-Advance Planning Fund to a subaccount for the Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan Update.
Body
Whereas, Section 66.1001, Wisconsin Statutes, requires that all cities adopt a comprehensive plan and specifies that comprehensive plans shall be updated no less than once every ten years; and
Whereas, On March 19, 2004, the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee (“Common Council”) adopted File No. 031312 that approved the Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan as an element of the Comprehensive Plan of the City of Milwaukee (“City”); and
Whereas, The Fond du Lac and North Area Comprehensive Plan is the oldest of the 14 area comprehensive plans, which are part of the City’s overall comprehensive plan; and
Whereas, The City’s procedures for comprehensive planning call for the creation of plan updates, based on emerging land use issues and opportunities, neighborhood input and other factors; and
Whereas, The Fond du Lac and North Area is in need of an updated area comprehensive plan to guide investment, development and land use decisions for the next ten to twenty years; and
Whereas, Th...
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