City of Milwaukee - File #: 230961

• File #: 230961
• Version: 1
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/31/2023
• In control: COMMON COUNCIL
• Final action: 11/21/2023
• Title: Substitute resolution releasing certain deed restrictions related to the 1984 conveyance of the property at 228 East Brown Street, now known as 232 East Brown Street, and authorizing the City of Milwaukee Department of City Development to enter into an agreement or agreements with the owner of the property at 232 East Brown Street in the 6th Aldermanic District.
• Sponsors: ALD. COGGS
• Indexes: AGREEMENTS, DEED RESTRICTIONS

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
11/22/2023	1	MAYOR	SIGNED
11/21/2023	1	COMMON COUNCIL	ADOPTED	Pass	15:0
11/13/2023	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR ADOPTION; Minutes note: Appearing: Amy Turim, Dept. of City Development Regina Kret, property owner Ald. Milele Coggs, 6th Ald. Dist. Ald. Coggs was in support.	Pass	5:0
11/6/2023	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
10/31/2023	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number

230961

Version

SUBSTITUTE 1

Reference

82-911, 82-911a, 82-911c, 050633

Sponsor

ALD. COGGS

Title

Substitute resolution releasing certain deed restrictions related to the 1984 conveyance of the property at 228 East Brown Street, now known as 232 East Brown Street, and authorizing the City of Milwaukee Department of City Development to enter into an agreement or agreements with the owner of the property at 232 East Brown Street in the 6th Aldermanic District.

Analysis

This substitute resolution releases deed restrictions placed on a property at the time of sale in 1984, and imposes new restrictions by mutual agreement of the parties, to be recorded at the register of deeds.

Body

Whereas, The City of Milwaukee (“City”) previously owned a vacant lot property known as 228 East Brown Street, now combined and known as 232 East Brown Street (“The Property”); and

Whereas, The City declared The Property surplus in 1982 and listed the Property for sale; and

Whereas, The City sold The Property in 1984 with a quit claim deed that contained certain restrictions (Recorded document number 5738475 at the Milwaukee County Register of Deeds); and

Whereas, The 1984 quit claim deed imposed restrictions that The Property be combined with the buyer’s property, the property could not be divided from the buyer’s property, and that The Property could not have a principal building erected on it without the approval of the Common Council of the City of Milwaukee; and

Whereas, The structure owned by the 1984 buyer has since been demolished, and

Whereas, The Property is now a vacant lot with no existing improvements; and

Whereas, The current owner of The Property, Chelsea W23, LLC (“The Owner”), would like to subdivide the property by certified survey map and build two two-unit (duplex) structures on The Property; and

Whereas, The Owner is still subject to the same deed restrictions as the 1984 buyer; and

Whereas, The Owner has met wi...