Milwaukee zoning committee backs housing and development items
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The committee recommended passage or adoption of several housing, zoning, and tax increment district measures, including new affordable housing projects, a zoning cleanup, and amended financing for Reed Street Yards and the Bronzeville Arts & Tech Hub. It also held two rental inspection items and a data center pause proposal for later consideration.
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The committee advanced multiple proposals that could shape housing and development in Milwaukee, including plans for affordable homes, workforce housing, and related tax increment district funding. It also approved a zoning fix for a mixed-use parcel on South Muskego Avenue and a zoning change tied to Bader Philanthropies’ properties. Two rental inspection proposals, a housing-policy communication, and a proposed pause on data centers were postponed for later discussion.
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- Held a resolution to designate an area in the 15th aldermanic district as a rental property inspection program district.
- Held an ordinance to establish a rental property inspection program.
- Held a communication on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and its impact on the City's tax-foreclosed housing inventory and related housing policies.
- Recommended passage of a zoning correction for 1993 South Muskego Avenue to Local Business, LB2.
- Recommended passage of a zoning change for properties at 410 West Concordia Avenue and 3301 and 3307 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue to Detailed Planned Development for Bader Philanthropies.
- Recommended adoption of Amendment No. 4 to the Tax Incremental District No. 75 project plan, authorizing up to $17,200,000 in expenditures.
- Recommended adoption of Tax Incremental District No. 135 for 25 workforce housing units on West Historic Mitchell Street.
- Recommended adoption of Amendment No. 1 to Tax Incremental District No. 121 for the Bronzeville Arts & Tech Hub commercial component.
- Recommended adoption of Tax Incremental District No. 136 for 95 affordable single-family homes in Amani.
- Recommended adoption of Tax Incremental District No. 132 for up to 200 affordable rental units at 5825 West Hope Avenue.
- Recommended adoption of a lease option and future lease for a portion of 5825 West Hope Avenue for municipal- or community-related purposes.
- Recommended adoption of an amended ground lease involving University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee properties at 2185 North Prospect Avenue and 1925 East Kenilworth Place.
- Recommended adoption of sale-backs to former owners for four City-owned tax-deeded properties.
- Held a one-year pause on new data center applications until zoning rules are amended.
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ZONING, NEIGHBORHOODS & DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
Amended 7/24/26 - Previous item 3, CCFN 260493, removed.
Agenda
- Substitute resolution relating to the designation of an area in the 15th aldermanic district as a rental property inspection program district.
- A substitute ordinance relating to the establishment of a rental property inspection program.
- Communication from the Department of City Development, the Department of Neighborhood Services, and the Office of the City Attorney relating to the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act and its impact on the City’s tax-foreclosed housing inventory and related housing policies.
- A substitute ordinance correcting the mixed zoning of the parcel located at 1993 South Muskego Avenue, on the west side of South Muskego Avenue, north of West Rogers Street, in the 8th Aldermanic District and assigning the zoning of Local Business, LB2, to the property.
- A substitute ordinance relating to the change in zoning from Two-Family Residential, RT4, and Local Business, LB2, for the properties located at 410 West Concordia Avenue and 3301 and 3307 North Vel R. Phillips Avenue to Detailed Planned Development, DPD, and the 1st Amendment to the DPD known as Bader Philanthropies to add the subject sites to the DPD that currently includes 3300 North Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, on the north side of West Concordia Avenue, east of North Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
- Resolution approving Amendment No. 4 to the Project Plan for Tax Incremental District No. 75 (Reed Street Yards) and authorizing expenditures, in the 12th Aldermanic District.
- Substitute resolution approving a Project Plan and a Development Agreement, authorizing expenditures and creating Tax Incremental District No. 135 (1101-1113 West Historic Mitchell Street), in the 12th Aldermanic District.
- Resolution approving Amendment No. 1 to the Project Plan and authorizing expenditures for Tax Incremental District No. 121 (Bronzeville Arts & Tech Hub), in the 6th Aldermanic District.
- Substitute resolution approving a Project Plan and a Development Agreement, authorizing expenditures and creating Tax Incremental District No. 136 (Amani Homeownership Initiative), in the 6th, 7th, and 15th Aldermanic Districts.
- Substitute resolution approving a Project Plan and a Development Agreement, authorizing expenditures and creating Tax Incremental District No. 132 (Midtown Commons), in the 2nd Aldermanic District.
- Substitute resolution approving a term sheet authorizing the City of Milwaukee to enter into a lease with AFS Milwaukee, LLC, for a portion of the property at 5825 West Hope Avenue, in the 2nd Aldermanic District.
- Resolution authorizing the Redevelopment Authority of the City of Milwaukee to enter into an amended Ground Lease with Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System operating as the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the properties at 2185 North Prospect Avenue and 1925 East Kenilworth Place, in the 3rd Aldermanic District.
- Resolution authorizing the sale-back to former owners of the City-owned tax-deeded property located at 920 South 33rd Street, in the 8th Aldermanic District.
- Resolution authorizing the sale-back to former owners of the City-owned tax-deeded property located at 2976 North 21st Street, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
- Resolution authorizing the sale-back to former owners of the City-owned tax-deeded property located at 3269-83 North 11th Street, in the 6th Aldermanic District.
- Resolution authorizing the sale-back to former owners of the City-owned tax-deeded property located at 2859 North 22nd Street, in the 15th Aldermanic District.
- A substitute ordinance relating to a temporary pause in the establishment and development of data centers.
- This meeting will be webcast live at www.milwaukee.gov/channel25.
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- Meeting convened at 9:06 a.m.
- Meeting adjourned at 12:18 p.m. Chris Lee, Staff Assistant Council Records Section City Clerk's Office
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