Published: March 15, 2010
Tags: Carol Holden, DNR, in-line pond, Jonathan Ela, Kaukauna, League of Wisconsin Municipalities, Neumeier, retention, rule, runoff, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Witynski
By Sean Ryan
The detention pond design municipal officials say is the cheapest way to satisfy state requirements would be outlawed under the latest proposed runoff rules.
“You just start adding things up higher and higher if you don’t have that option on the table,” said John Neumeier, engineer and GIS specialist for Kaukauna.
The Wisconsin Department of [...]
Published: February 24, 2010
Tags: Cudahy, DNR, foreclosure, Fritts, Iceport, McCue, property, Rail, redevelopment, Sportsites LLC, spur, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Comments: 2
By Sean Ryan
The city of Cudahy, which owns the former Iceport property, is studying whether to build a railroad spur through the site to attract development.
“I’d like to see manufacturing on that site,” said Mayor Ryan McCue.
The city bought the foreclosed 31.2-acre site at sheriff’s auction in June and plans to redevelop the land. The [...]
Published: February 17, 2010
Tags: Charter Street power plant, Clean Air Act, David Miller, DNR, Feyerherm, lawsuit, pollution, power plant, Sierra Club, Steffes, UW System, UW-Eau Claire, UW-La Crosse, UW-Madison, UW-Stevens Point, UW-Stout, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Paul Snyder
A Sierra Club lawsuit seeking the results of a state review of four campus power plants could be the beginning of a massive drain on the budgets of university building projects.
The Sierra Club wants to know whether projects completed since 1995 at University of Wisconsin System power plants on the campuses of UW-Eau [...]
Published: February 11, 2010
Tags: 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Fitzgerald, global warming bill, Gunderson, Hiniker, Huebsch, jobs, Le Monds, Montgomery, power plant, PSC, Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, renewable energy, Todd Stuart, Wisconsin Department of Commerce, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Industrial Energy Group
Comments: 1
By Paul Snyder
Critics of Wisconsin’s clean energy bill are calling for a sharper focus on specific job creation numbers and a detailed explanation of how much the proposal will cost.
“The cost is something we need to know and taxpayers need to know,” said state Rep. Jeff Fitzgerald, R-Horicon. “I don’t think anybody’s against green jobs, [...]
Published: February 5, 2010
Tags: development, groundwater, Lake Michigan, Madison, McNeely, Milwaukee, Pardee, Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission Environmental Justice Task Force, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Center for Economic Development, Wade, water, Waukesha, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Sean Ryan
Planners are going by instinct and best guesses as they try to chart the effect water prices will have on development and population trends in Waukesha.
The city has two options: Strike a deal to get its water from Lake Michigan or drill wells to tap into groundwater supplies.
According to Waukesha estimates, it would [...]
Published: January 20, 2010
Tags: 1000 Friends of Wisconsin, Botz, Bruskewitz, DNR, global warming bill, Governor’s Task Force on Global Warming, Hiniker, Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization, Marcus, MPOs, Plale, regional transportation planning, Schaeffer, Smart Growth Greater Madison, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Legislature, WisDOT
Comments: 2
By Paul Snyder
A bill in the Wisconsin Legislature has the broad purpose of slowing global warming, but regional planners are fighting the provision they fear will eventually give the state control over local development.
Eileen Bruskewitz, a member of the Madison Metropolitan Planning Organization, said MPOs should not have to take state orders to reduce greenhouse [...]
Published: January 15, 2010
Tags: Ambs, Capital Area Regional Planning Commission, Dane County, Dietzen, DNR, Faga, Holcomb, Mazomanie, Miller, regional planning, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Paul Snyder
Development fights killed one Dane County regional planning group, and the village of Mazomanie is sharpening the blade for another’s execution.
“They’ve got to learn to work with us,” Lowell Holcomb, Mazomanie’s village president, said of the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission. “They just have to. They’ve just slammed the door in our face [...]
Published: December 9, 2009
Tags: Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation, Duchniak, Lake Michigan, McAvoy, Milwaukee, Oak Creek, poverty, Race & Civil Liberties Project of the American Civil Liberties Union of Wisconsin Foundation, Racine, Rotker, water, Waukesha, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Sean Ryan
Before selling water to Waukesha, Milwaukee should force its neighbor to the west to make housing more affordable and transit more available, according to organizations skeptical of the deal.
“It can’t be platitudes,” said Peter McAvoy, vice president of environmental health for the Sixteenth Street Community Health Center. “It can’t just be rhetoric.”
Waukesha Water [...]
Published: December 9, 2009
Tags: AGC, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Associated General Contractors, California, Department of Natural Resources, diesel, DNR, emission, Goss, grant, heavy equipment, Lawent, Perry & Shaw Inc., retrofit, Shaw, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Wisconsin Department of Transportation, Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association
Comments: 1
By Sean Ryan
Builders nationwide are fighting a proposed California rule requiring reductions in diesel emissions from construction equipment.
Industry groups fear California’s rule will set a standard for other states to adopt.
But in Wisconsin, regulators are content partnering with, rather than policing, builders.
“It’s always good to stay ahead of regulations,” said Jessica Lawent, air management specialist [...]
Published: December 8, 2009
Tags: Bartolotta, Bartolotta Restaurant Group, Bartolotta Restaurant Group LLC, Cudahy, Discovery World at Pier Wisconsin, Eric Reinelt, Finance & Personnel Committee, Michael Cudahy, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee Board of Harbor Commissioners, Milwaukee Lakefront Development Advisory Commission, Pieces of Eight, Preserve our Parks, Public Trust Doctrine, Reinelt, Specialty Restaurants of Wisconsin, Specialty Restaurants of Wisconsin Inc., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences, Wisconsin Constitution, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
By Sean Ryan
The plan to open a restaurant on the Milwaukee lakefront site of the former Pieces of Eight is poised to move forward even though it probably violates the Wisconsin Constitution.
“We are not going to keep them from reopening the restaurant with the current footprint as long as they don’t put a high-rise on [...]
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