Number
110693
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
110692
Sponsor
ALD. KOVAC
Title
Substitute resolution approving the boundary and design guidelines for the East Side Architectural Review District.
Analysis
This resolution approves the boundary and design guidelines for the East Side Architectural Review District, an area roughly coterminous with Business Improvement District No. 20 (East North Avenue). The architectural review board for this district - which will be administering the adopted design guidelines - is created by companion Common Council File Number 110692.
Body
Whereas, Consistent with s. 200-61-2 of the Milwaukee Code of Ordinances, the Common Council finds that the physical and architectural character of the Business Improvement District No. 20 (“BID 20”) area, which encompasses properties on both sides of East North Avenue between the Milwaukee River and North Prospect Avenue warrants special regulation with respect to the alteration, rehabilitation and construction of buildings, structures or sites because or the area’s significant historical, cultural, social and commercial attributes; and
Whereas, The Common Council further finds that to protect, promote and enhance the special physical and architectural character of the BID 20 area, it is essential that an architectural review board be created to review all applications for the alteration, rehabilitation or construction of buildings, structures and sites in the area; and
Whereas, Common Council File Number 110692 is an ordinance that creates an architectural review board for the BID 20 area - the East Side Architectural Review Board (“Board”); and
Whereas, Section 200-61-2-d and 4-c of the Code require that an architectural review board use Common Council-adopted design guidelines when reviewing applications for certificates of appropriateness for the alteration, rehabilitation and construction of buildings, structures and sites in the architectural review district; and
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