Events
Community & Economic Development Committee Meeting
The Community and Economic Development Committee hears matters relating to community development, block grants, job development, business improvement districts, city public relations, industrial land banks and revenue bonds, emerging business enterprises, recreation, cultural arts and the library system. The Community and Economic Development Committee meetings start at 9:00 pa.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted. Agenda
Mar 7th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Public Works Committee Meeting
The Public Works Committee is responsible for physical services provided by the city such as street and alley maintenance, waste collection, disposal and recycling, sewer, water and flood control projects, assessments, public buildings, land and waterways. Public Works Committee meetings start at 9:00 a.m. and are held in the Room 301-B, City Hall, unless otherwise noted. Agenda
Mar 7th, 2009 by Dave Reid
City Plan Commission Meeting
The City Plan Commission (CPC) is the City’s official planning body established under State statute and is responsible for master planning activities. The CPC advises the Common Council on a variety of land development issues including zoning map changes, revisions in the zoning ordinance, subdivision approvals, business improvement districts, street and alley vacations, public land disposition and acquisition, new streets and the approval of development plans in certain overlay districts. City Plan Commission (CPC) meetings start at 1:30 p.m. and are held in the First Floor Boardroom at the Department of City Development, 809 North Broadway, unless otherwise noted. CPC Agenda March 9th, 2009
Mar 7th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Milwaukee Green Roof Symposium
The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to learn from local and national experts about the general design and implementation of green roofs. Regional case studies will be featured and afternoon focus group sessions will allow attendees the chance to identify with relevant city officials the local research needs and obstacles to implementation. Input gathered from participants of this workshop will help guide the further development of green roof policy options in the Milwaukee area. Location: Milwaukee School of Engineering 1025 N. Broadway Tuition for this workshop is $199 per person. Register online at www.greenroofs.org For further information on the symposium, please contact Jennifer Sprout, Director, Green Roofs for Healthy Cities at 416-971-4494, ext. 229 (jsprout@greenroofs.org).
Mar 7th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Southwest Side Area Plan
We Need Your Input We want to hear from you about how you would like your neighborhood to look and feel in the future. Please attend an Image Preference Survey. The Image Preference Survey (IPS) is a planning technique that helps us understand how you would like your neighborhood to look and feel in the future. We will show about 75 neighborhood images (some from the Southwest Side and some from other places). You will be asked to rate each image based on your preferences for the design of residential and commercial development, public space and parking areas. We will then have a discussion about the desirability of different types of development. Results from the IPS will be used in developing recommendations for the Southwest Side Area Plan. Location: Alverno College Kellogg Room A 3400 S. 43rd St. Contact: Space is limited, please RSVP to Karen at 286.8543
Mar 4th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Southwest Side Area Plan
We Need Your Input We want to hear from you about how you would like your neighborhood to look and feel in the future. Please attend an Image Preference Survey. The Image Preference Survey (IPS) is a planning technique that helps us understand how you would like your neighborhood to look and feel in the future. We will show about 75 neighborhood images (some from the Southwest Side and some from other places). You will be asked to rate each image based on your preferences for the design of residential and commercial development, public space and parking areas. We will then have a discussion about the desirability of different types of development. Results from the IPS will be used in developing recommendations for the Southwest Side Area Plan. Location: Wilson Commons Chopin Community Rm 1400 W. Sonata Dr. Contact: Space is limited, please RSVP to Karen at 286.8543
Mar 4th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Regional Transportation Authority Public Panel Discussion
As a community. we will soon be given a choice to urge our representatives to either support or oppose the creation of a permanent Regional Transportation Authority. (RTA). In order to inform our neighbors, The 3rd District Neighborhood Association is sponsoring a panel discussion and public forum on this all important issue for all citizens of South Eastern Wisconsin. Panel: Ken Yunker – South Eastern Wisconsin Planning Commission Sharon Robinson – City of Milwaukee Representative to the RTA Kerry Thomas – TransitNow Donna Brown – Department of Transportation City of Milwaukee, The Connector Project Location: St Mark’s Episcopal Church Belleview Place and Hackett Ave. Flyer
Mar 4th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Great Lakes Urban Exchange Annual Conference
The post-industrial cities of the Great Lakes region are too similar to remain isolated from one another. GLUE is building the collaborative networks that our cities need, and enabling the exchange of information and ideas across those networks. In mid-March, GLUE is bringing the best part of its exchanging to the Cream City. Who: 75 young urbanists from old cities who are tired of business as usual and want to connect What: Hear from urban policy experts, plan transit activism, learn about movement-building, and figure out how to collaborate towards the future health and prosperity of our cities Where: Milwaukee—on the shores of beautiful Lake Michigan When: Thu., March 12 – Sat., March 14 Why: Because the success of each of our cities is directly tied to the success of all of our cities Let’s steer it. Planned events include: a tour of Growing Power; speeches from Milwaukee Common Council President Willie Hines, CEOs for Cities CEO Carol Coletta, and John Austin from Detroit’s New Economy Initiative and the Brookings Institution; policy drill-down sessions with the Northeast-Midwest Institute and Smart Growth America; community journalism training with the Allied Media Project; an art walk in the Third Ward; and of course, at least one brewery tour. Conference participants will walk away educated about policy innovations, energized by success stories, activated within the growing urban movement, and able to boast about Milwaukee’s assets. About GLUE: Information on GLUE at GLUEspace.org Conference agenda, details and registration at glueconference2009.wordpress.com GLUE is a project of the Tides Center Email at glueteam@gluespace.org Flyer
Mar 4th, 2009 by Dave Reid
Public Open House for the Near South Side Plan
Public Open House for the Near South Side Plan March 17, 2009 3:00 – 7:00 PM, short presentations at 3:30 pm and 5:30 pm At The Harley-Davidson Museum At the crossroads of 6th and Canal Street Museum Entrance Peace Room, 3rd Floor http://www.mkedcd.org/planning/plans/NearSouth/
Mar 3rd, 2009 by Dave Reid
a Christian Mandate to Engage with the Urban Environment
Eric O. Jacobsen will be speaking and leading a public discussion on From the Garden to Jerusalem: a Christian Mandate to Engage with the Urban Environment Eric O. Jacobsen bio: senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Tacoma graduate of Princeton Seminary (M.Div.) and Fuller Seminary (Ph.D.) author of Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith (Brazos/Baker Books) At the Urban Ecology Center Thursday evening March 5 6:30-8:30 pm Contact person: Joyce Tang Boyland Questions: 964-3227 or jtangb@gmail.com RSVP: theboylands@gmail.com Flyer
Mar 3rd, 2009 by Dave Reid
Grace for Public Spaces
Keynote speaker David Greusel, AIA architect of two award-winning downtown major-league ballparks (Principal at HOK Venue) will speak and lead discussions on the built environment, neighborhoods, the discipline of place, and building consensus. Subsidiary speakers: Eric Jacobsen, author of Sidewalks in the Kingdom, will speak on the theme of “Love Thy Neighborhood.” Jill Florence Lackey, founder of Urban Anthropology, Inc., and Grace La, of La Dallman Architects, will each speak on how public space has transformed a community, and the process by which this was achieved. This event will be focused on equipping people to work with others to enliven local communities, with particular attention to the role of physical and social spaces. There will be discussion of the impact of the built environment on human life, and gracious ways of preserving what is good and addressing what is broken in our public spaces. Besides informative and thought-provoking lectures, significant opportunities will be provided to establish collaborations and develop relationships. Marquette Alumni Memorial Union, Ballroom E (NE corner of 16th and Wisconsin) Friday 6 March 8:30 – 5:00 and Saturday 7 March 8:30 – noon Questions to Joyce Tang Boyland: jtangb@gmail.com, 964-3227 RSVP to Laura.Furey@marquette.edu, 288-6010 Flyer
Mar 3rd, 2009 by Dave Reid
Taxes, Trains and Brains
Dave Wetzel will present his discussion: Taxes, Trains and Brains March 15, 4pm, at Outpost Natural Foods Community Room, 2826 S. Kinnickinnic Ave. Questions\RSVP Contact Bill Sell at: email: sunrise@bikethehoan.com phone: 414-272-3787
Mar 3rd, 2009 by Dave Reid
