Number
101028
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
100235
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN
Title
Substitute resolution rescinding Common Council File Number 100235, a resolution approving the Downtown Area Comprehensive Plan Update as an element of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan.
Analysis
This resolution rescinds Common Council File Number 100235, a resolution approving the Downtown Area Comprehensive Plan Update as an element of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan.
Body
Whereas, On October 12, 2010, the Common Council adopted File Number 100235, a resolution approving the Downtown Area Comprehensive Plan Update as an element of Milwaukee’s Overall Comprehensive Plan; and
Whereas, The City of Milwaukee, and its private partners in the comprehensive planning process, invested a substantial amount of money and time in preparing the Downtown Area Comprehensive Plan Update, including:
1. $50,000 appropriated from the Advance Planning Fund capital account to fund the Downtown Plan Update (CC File 071125, adopted January 15, 2008). The estimated total cost of the Plan Update - including both City and private funding -- was up to $150,000 (per file 071125).
2. Almost three years devoted to developing the Downtown Plan Update, from plan initiation in November, 2007, until Common Council review and approval in September/October, 2010. Countless hours were dedicated to this project by members of the Contract Management Team, which consisted of both public-sector participants (representing the City’s Department of City Development, Department of Public Works and Milwaukee Economic Development Corporation) and private-sector members representing the Downtown Milwaukee Business Improvement District, the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce, the Greater Milwaukee Committee and the Milwaukee Development Corporation.
3. An 18-month-long public-input portion of the planning process that included a public-private steering committee, on-line and hard-copy survey...
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