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Milwaukee again postpones enforcement of mandatory deconstruction policy
A Milwaukee committee has once again decided to hit pause on an ordinance requiring contractors to deconstruct rather than demolish blighted houses in the city.
Milwaukee committee rejects policy to ban demolition of vacant properties
A Milwaukee committee balked on Tuesday at a proposal to ban the demolition of city-owned residential properties for the rest of the year, giving local officials more time to decide if they want to use part of the millions the city is expected to receive in federal COVID-19 aid for housing rehabilitation.
Milwaukee again pauses demolition ban, freezing deconstruction rules until 2022
A Milwaukee committee has decided again to postpone the enforcement of the city's deconstruction ordinance, which requires contractors to disassemble rather than demolish blighted homes.
City likely to cut ties with company in $1.2M deconstruction contract
In another wrinkle for Milwaukee's struggling deconstruction program, local officials are moving to cut ties with a company hired last year to take apart, rather than tear down, 50 blighted houses in the city.
Milwaukee extends deconstruction freeze, plans contractor training sessions
Milwaukee officials on Tuesday recommended maintaining a freeze on a policy that had previously required the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of certain dilapidated properties throughout the city.
Milwaukee council to try to override veto blocking $400K for blight removal
The Milwaukee Common Council plans on Tuesday to take up a budget veto that Mayor Tom Barrett used to block a $400,000 increase for blight removal.
After fits and false starts, Milwaukee officials mark city’s first deconstruction job
City officials celebrated Milwaukee's first deconstruction project on Thursday, admiring the work of a contractor taking apart a vacant house on the city's north side — some two years after a policy was enacted requiring blighted homes to be taken apart instead of torn down.
DECONSTRUCTION DYSFUNCTION? Officials see little progress on raze list
City staff and private contractors have taken down fewer than half of the blighted properties they had hoped to this year after Milwaukee officials put their struggling deconstruction policy on […]
City officials put deconstruction policy on hold until 2020 (VIDEO)
After sputtering in its inaugural year, a newly passed city policy requiring historic homes to be deconstructed rather than demolished is on-hold.
Milwaukee committee favors pausing deconstruction policy, after blight spread in 2018
After seeing the number of condemned properties increase in the city last year, Milwaukee officials voted on Tuesday to recommend postponement for a city policy requiring contractors to deconstruct rather than demolish historic houses.
Milwaukee officials considering pausing deconstruction policy until 2020
Milwaukee could pause its enforcement of a mandate requiring contractors to deconstruct, rather than demolish, historic homes after a assessment of the policy found that it struggled to get off the ground in 2018.
Milwaukee council dismisses deconstruction concerns, overrides mayor’s veto
The Milwaukee Common Council defeated a mayoral veto Tuesday that would have slashed cash from a city blight-removal policy often requiring the deconstruction, rather than demolition, of historic homes.
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