City of Milwaukee - File #: 100771

• File #: 100771
• Version: 2
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 10/12/2010
• In control: ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
• Final action: 12/21/2010
• Effective date: 1/13/2011
• Title: A substitute ordinance relating to zoning regulations for cash-for-gold businesses, pawn shops, currency exchanges, payday loan stores and title loan stores.
• Sponsors: ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. BOHL
• Indexes: BANKS AND LENDING INSTITUTIONS, SECONDHAND DEALERS, ZONING

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
1/12/2011	2	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
1/5/2011	2	MAYOR	SIGNED
12/21/2010	2	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
12/17/2010	2	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED; Minutes note: Proposed Sub. A accepted at the ZND meeting of 12/17/10 - LME
12/17/2010	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	SUBSTITUTED; Minutes note: Proposed Substitute A accepted. Individuals present: Ed Richardson - Dept. of City Development Ald. Jim Bohl Catherine Cooper - legislative aide to Ald. Witkowski Jeff Osterman - Legislative Reference Bureau	Pass	5:0
12/17/2010	2	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	5:0
12/3/2010	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/3/2010	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
12/3/2010	1	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
11/17/2010	1	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED; Minutes note: This file is being published on 11-17-10 and 11-24-10 for a CPC meeting on 12-6-10 at 1:40 p.m.
11/11/2010	1	CITY CLERK	Sponsor added; Minutes note: Ald. Bohl added as sponsor on 11/11/10 as a result of e-mail request - LME
10/27/2010	1	CITY CLERK	DRAFT SUBMITTED
10/14/2010	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
10/14/2010	0	ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE	REFERRED TO
10/12/2010	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
100771
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference

Sponsor
ALD. WITKOWSKI AND BOHL
Title
A substitute ordinance relating to zoning regulations for cash-for-gold businesses, pawn shops, currency exchanges, payday loan stores and title loan stores.
Sections
295-201-94 cr
295-201-443 rc
295-201-525 am
295-203-5-h rn
295-203-5-h cr
295-203-5-i rn
295-203-5-i cr
295-203-5-j rn
295-203-5-k rn
295-203-5-L rn
295-203-5-m am
295-203-5-m rn
295-203-5-n rn
295-403-2-a (table) am
295-503-1 (table) am
295-603-1 (table) am
295-603-3-0 am
295-603-3-a am
295-703-1 (table) am
295-703-3-0 am
295-703-3-a am
295-803-1 (table) am
295-803-3-0 am
295-803-3-a am
295-903-2-a (table) am
295-905-2-a (table) am
295-905-2-c-0 am
295-905-2-c-1 am
Analysis
Currently, the zoning code classifies a pawn shop or a business primarily engaged in buying used gold or jewelry as a “secondhand store”. This ordinance creates new, separate zoning-code terms - “cash-for-gold business” and “pawn shop” - to identify these types of establishments.

The ordinance provides that a cash-for-gold business or a pawn shop shall be classified as a special use in the following zoning districts: all commercial districts; all downtown districts except C9A (high-density residential); the IM (industrial-mixed) and TL (institutional) districts. Cash-for-gold businesses and pawn shops shall be prohibited uses in all other zoning districts.

This ordinance further provides that no special use permit for a currency exchange, payday loan agency, title loan agency, cash-for-gold business or pawn shop shall be granted by the board of zoning appeals unless the board finds, in addition to the customary findings for all special uses, that:

a. No other currency exchange, payday loan agency, title loan agency, cash-for-gold business or pawn shop is located within 1,500 feet of the proposed use.

b. The proposed use will not be located within 150 feet of a single-family or 2-family residential zoning district.
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