From: Gary Rosenberg Sent: Friday, July 15, 2016 10:54 AM To: Lee, Chris; Marcoux, Rocky; Bauman, Robert; Mayor Tom Barrett; doughagerman@gmail.com; Dettmann Mary Subject: Remonstrance to reject change in zoning in re Detailed Planned Development, 1550 N. Prospect DATE: JULY 15, 2016 TO: Honorable Members City of Milwaukee, Zoning, Neighborhoods, & Development Committee c/o Chris Lee clee@milwaukee.gov CC: Dept of City Development Commissioner Rocky Marcoux rocky.marcoux@milwaukee.gov Alderman Robert Bauman rjbauma@milwaukee.gov Mayor Tom Barrett mayor@milwaukee.gov Doug Hagerman (1522 representative) doughagerman@gmail.com Mary Ertl Dettmann (1522 association president) famdett@wi.rr.com FROM: Gary David Rosenberg, Unit 502 1522 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee, 52302 Fellow, Geological Society of America Gary.Rosenberg@sbcglobal.net RE: Remonstrance to reject the change in zoning to a new Detailed Planned Development for a multi-family residential development at 1550 North Prospect Ave. The proposed building at 1550 N. Prospect is out of scale with the neighborhood; it is way too large for the property; it will be built too close to the buildings on its south and north sides, (respectively, 1522 N. Prospect and 1560 N. Prospect); the density of occupants is excessive; provisions for entry and exit, as well as for parking on the premises and contiguous portions of Prospect Ave, are grossly inadequate for resident density and visitor autos as well as for trucks servicing the enormous number of residents and routine maintenance projects on and deliveries to the property; the consequent impact and burden on street parking and traffic flow along Prospect Avenue, already challenging during rush hour and holiday events, can reasonably be expected to intensify with as well as jeopardize the eventual extension of the city’s fixed-rail streetcar along Prospect; the developer has offered no provisions to indemnify owners/residents of adjacent buildings for damage to their property consequent to pounding in pilings of extraordinary size for the extraordinarily large building on soft, unconsolidated, easily erodible substrate; the developer has made no effort to employ a professional, certified environmental geological engineering firm to evaluate the consequent effects of construction of such a huge “product” (the developer’s term for the massive building) upon erosion and disruption of ground water flow (although my professional geologist colleagues inform me such provisions for monitoring and compensating for damage are routine when adjacent buildings are offices and other businesses); the construction of a 4-story parking garage above grade is unprecedented for the lower Prospect neighborhood; the building will project to an unprecedented extent beyond the edge of the soft-sediment bluff above the Oak Leaf Trail. /2 -2- DATE: July 15, 2016 TO: City of Milwaukee, Zoning, Neighborhoods, & Development Committee FROM: Gary David Rosenberg The Milwaukee Zoning Code of Ordinances, Zoning 295, is clearly stated to encourage development that is compatible with its surroundings, and in particular to “maintain safe pedestrian and vehicular circulation…prevent and control erosion, sedimentation, and other pollution… enhance the streetscape and pedestrian environment… maintain a compatible scale of development….and encourage reinvestment in established urban neighborhoods while protecting their unique characteristics…” In short, the proposed building promises only to violate every one of these principals by radically and adversely transforming the scale of the lower Prospect neighborhood and thereby to harm the quality of life that the present zoning has for decades facilitated. Therefore, the developer’s zoning request should be summarily rejected. Gary David Rosenberg Fellow, Geological Society of America Unit #502 1522 N. Prospect Ave. Milwaukee, WI 53202 Gary.Rosenberg@sbcglobal.net