Volunteers are needed for the Sept. 25
Bay View Beach cleanup, 9-11am. Meet at Bay View Park stairs. Sponsored by Bay View Neighborhood Association’s Environment & Transportation Committee.
Jackson Square Apartments
Jackson Square Apartments
Jackson Square Apartments
Jackson Square Apartments
Jackson Square Apartments
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup
The High Cost of Free Parking makes the American Planning Association’s 100 Essential Books of Planning, and for good reason. Not because it is a particularly easy read, but because it will challenge the way you think about parking, that is assuming you think about parking.
This book spells out how to make our cities better, by charging the right price for street parking. Donald Shoup, the author, makes the argument that in high demand parking areas, the problem isn’t that there isn’t free parking or that there isn’t enough parking, the problem is that street parking is priced incorrectly. He argues for “three reforms–charge fair-market prices for curb parking, return the resulting revenue to the neighborhoods that generate it, and remove the zoning requirements for off-street parking.” The first reform, would adjust on-street parking rates so as to meet demand while always leaving a space or two available on the street for customers. The second reform, would allow the new funds raised by charging market rates to stay within the district to pay for improvements and maintenance, making the rate structure desirable to local business owners and residents. Finally, the third reform would eliminate regulations that require parking which would allow the market to determine the number of parking spots for a project rather than an arbitrary regulation.
To learn more about market based pricing of parking, and an entirely new approach to parking management that cities, such as San Francisco, are actually implementing today, this book is required reading.
Weber’s Greenhouses located at 4215 N. Green Bay Ave. is planning a 4 Season Harvest – Full Moon Festival on Friday September 24 and Saturday September 25. We would like you to participate. This event is FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Friday Night is from 6 – 11pm and will be a huge party to kick off the event featuring the Milwaukee Band the EX-CLEAVERS (New Age Punk Rock) for those of you who know them. This will cost $5, and we have tickets for early sale. BYOB. There will also be kegs from The Ale House.
Saturday will run from 10am – 6pm and will feature guest speakers including…
Tony from Lamborganics – A delightful man who is in the worm farm business. We will be giving away free samples of his castings.
Franz from Weber’s AKA The Germanator – I will discuss alternative energy for the poor urban farmer and other strategies for a more sustainable Milwaukee. I too will be giving away free samples of vegetable starts in celebration of the 4 season harvest.
Urban food production and four season harvest demonstration and resources:
Low cost energy strategies for the urban environment:
City Hall
200 East Wells St.
Common Council Chambers
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Join author Charles Damaske as he provides an historic overview of Milwaukee’s past interurban rail lines and some city service via the Milwaukee Street Car Line. This program includes information on the Burlington Line, East Troy Line, Lakeside Line, Milwaukee Northern Line, Rapid Transit Line, Watertown Line, West Junction to Waukesha Line, and the Milwaukee – Racine – Kenosha Line. Damaske is the author of Along the Right-of-Way, a series of books exploring events that occurred along the service routes of the Milwaukee Electric Railway & Light Company.
For more information on this program and the Franklin exhibit, go to http://www.mpl.org/file/franklin_exhibit.htm.
Friday, September 10 – 2:00-4:00 p.m.
Central Library, 1st Floor Meeting Room
The 10th Annual Community Development Summit will be held on the morning of Tuesday, October 12, 2010 at the Italian Conference Center in Milwaukee.
“Foreclosure: Impacts and Opportunities” will provide an update of the foreclosure situation in Milwaukee and innovative approaches currently being utilized to address the issue.
This year’s event will also feature keynote speaker John Taylor, President & CEO of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC).
Registration details to follow to stay tuned!
Questions? Contact us at (414)562-9904 Web: http://www.uedawi.org/
Alderman Zielinski is holding a neighborhood meeting to discuss the Port of Milwaukee Redevelopment Plan on Wednesday, September 1st, 6 p.m. at the Port of Milwaukee, 2323 S. Lincoln Memorial Dr.
The City of Milwaukee approved the boundary for the Port Redevelopment Plan in March 2009 and directed the Department of City Development to prepare a draft of the Plan. A map of the boundary is available online at: http://www.mkedcd. org/planning/ Port/index.html
Station Gateway Plaza
The preparation of the Downtown Plan Update has involved various public input sessions, countless hours of community and stakeholder input, resident surveys, the involvement of the business community, and the work of city staff. The process is still ongoing and the presentation before the City Plan Commission for approval was the next step in the process.
As previously reported the plan update spells out eight catalytic projects designed to increase density, improve connectivity throughout downtown, and create a sense of place. The eight catalytic projects, would as City of Milwaukee Planning and Development Manager Greg Patin, explained build on the catalytic projects from the 1999 plan.
Surprisingly, at the commission meeting there was some opposition. Pat O’Brien, President of the Milwaukee Development Corporation and the President of the M7, argued that the plan should focus on the remaining catalytic projects from the 1999 plan, that the plan should focus on demand generators, and it should prioritize catalytic projects. Vanessa Koster, City Planning Manager, responded to the critisim saying “We don’t prioritize catalytic projects” and indicated that this will allow the market to respond and drive the projects. She added that “we have many pearls downtown,” and that “this plan strings them all together.”
Broadway Connection
Wispark President Jerry Franke, spoke of a need to create a matrix to guide development, specifically to prioritize TIF use, and that the area laid out in the downtown plan was to far reaching.
Alderman Bauman spoke last saying that he was surprised about there being any controversy, stating that “this is a land use plan, this is not a statement of the City of Milwaukee TIF policy.” He added later that he was glad to hear that the M7 and the MDC are interested in demand generators in downtown Milwaukee. In fact he hoped to hear soon that the M7 has changed their position regarding UWM’s expansion in Wauwatosa, and that he looked forward to the subsequent article by Tom Daykin entitled “M7 calls for demand generators in downtown Milwaukee… like the Engineering School.”
Despite calls for the City of Milwaukee to set TIF policy within the land-use plan, the Downtown Plan Update moved forward with unanimous support from the City Plan Commission.
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