Number
190186
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference
180244, 181520
Sponsor
ALD. STAMPER, PEREZ AND RAINEY
Title
Resolution approving a Commercial Parking Lot Beautification Pilot Program.
Analysis
The resolution authorizes the Department of Administration-Environmental Collaboration Office to create a Commercial Parking Lot Beautification Pilot Program. Common Council file 180244 directed the Environmental Collaboration Office to create such a program. This program would provide grants to commercial parking lot owners for pavement removal and landscape edge improvements that meet or exceed the landscape code as recently updated in file 181520. The program will be targeted to the Neighborhood Strategic Planning Area. At least $30,000 will be used for this program as part of the broader Neighborhood Investment Beautification Program
Body
Whereas, The Common Council appropriated a $100,000 for a Neighborhood Investment Beautification Program Special Fund in the 2019 Budget to the Department of Administration-Environmental Collaboration Office, in addition to funds appropriated in 2018; and
Whereas, The Common Council’s objective in appropriating these funds is to improve the appearance of the City of Milwaukee, with a specific focus on the City’s most challenged neighborhoods; and
Whereas, The Environmental Collaboration Office and its neighborhood beautification partners want to beautify Milwaukee’s neighborhoods while simultaneously promoting sustainability, commercial corridor economic development and resident quality of life; and
Whereas, the Common Council approved a Neighborhood Beautification Plan in 2018 that directed the Environmental Collaboration Office to establish a pilot program for landscape beautification grants on private parking lots in order to enhance the appearance of Milwaukee’s commercial corridors; and
Whereas, the Common Council recently approved an ordinance relating to landscaping and screening requirem...
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