Development law splits Milwaukee neighborhood

Milwaukee neighbors spar over zoning

Published: May 25, 2010
Tags: East Village Association, lower east side, Milwaukee, Milwaukee Plan Commission, Milwaukee Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee, overlay district, Peters-Weiland & Co.

Sean Ryan sean.ryan@dailyreporter.com Residents of Milwaukee’s lower east side are squabbling over zoning restrictions that discourage large developments in their neighborhood. City officials are considering lifting a zoning district in the area that discourages property owners from combining parcels to develop taller buildings and demolishing houses that are more than a century old. Henry Weiland, [...]

Development law splits Milwaukee neighborhood

Published: March 29, 2010
Tags: Bondar, Christopherson, development, east side, East Village Association, guidelines, Kovac, law, Milwaukee, repeal

By Sean Ryan A proposal to wipe out a five-year-old development law in a Milwaukee neighborhood is reigniting an argument over the best way to govern growth. The city in 2005 limited development in a lower east side neighborhood in which most of the buildings are old houses. The law was intended to discourage construction [...]

Milwaukee neighbors spar over zoning

Development law splits Milwaukee neighborhood

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