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The Zoning, Neighborhoods & Development Committee met Tuesday, October 27, 2026, in Room 301-B of Milwaukee City Hall. The meeting was scheduled for 9:00 a.m., convened at 9:07 a.m., and adjourned at 11:13 a.m. Members present were Chair Ald. Robert J. Bauman, Vice-Chair Ald. Russell W. Stamper II, Ald. Milele A. Coggs (joining remotely), Ald. DiAndre Jackson, and Ald. Scott P. Spiker. The committee considered 16 items, including an ordinance on expired Board of Zoning Appeals approvals, an accessory dwelling unit design-package agreement, data center policy and dashboard resolutions, a downtown Planned Development zoning change, a Tax Incremental District amendment, and ten City-owned property sale-backs.
Committee for Tuesday, October 27, 2026, at 9 05 A.M. I'm Alderman Bauman, Chair of the Committee. We're also joined by the Vice Chair Alderman Stamper to my right. To my far left is Alderman Spiker. Uh to his right is Alderman DeAndre Jackson. Uh to my immediate left is our staff assistant Chris Lee. And Alderwoman Cogs is joining us on the big board. So we have a full compliment. First item on the agenda is uh file 260563. The substitute ordinance relating to notification by the Board of Zoning Appeals of expired appeals. There's a proposal for a substitute. Is there a motion to amend the file by introducing a substitute? Okay. Uh hearing no objection, substitute A is before us. Uh this is sponsored by Alderman's Perez, Westmoreland, Jackson, and Alderwoman Taylor. Uh would the sponsors like to take the leading order or let the okay. Well, I'll start. I just want to thank you and committee members for the opportunity today. Um for some time we have been convening um different departments, whether it's licensing BOSA uh DNS and uh wanting to make sure that we can have a streamlined approach. Uh oftentimes uh there's a very strict and hard rule that before you come apply for your license, whether it's food dealer or liquor license, that you make sure you have the occupancy for BOSA. Sometimes um some of those sneak through without having a boza. But what we realized in the process too is that we have many expired occupancies and many for years, and uh we believe by codifying um this to make sure that that we all know DNS knows and um our offices know of occupancies that have been expired within 15 days of being expired. We have an opportunity to um work with uh property owners and business owners uh in order to to fix this because um I've had I had one I can give you an example. I had someone from 2018, a mechanic that had been expired and um doing business all that time. The terms of condition weren't being followed about parking on the street with vehicles they were repairing, there were landscaping issues, and we kept wondering what was going on, and when we looked into it, uh they had been uh their occupancy had a had been expired four years, and then um DNS did their enforcement and they kind of ate the fines until they rectified the situation. And so um it was very costly to them, very costly to the neighborhood with complaints and um and time and resources of departments going out and following up on a daily basis because of the expiration. So we believe that codifying this at least for the issues in my district will will help believe that those efforts. Okay, very good. I don't know if any of the other sponsors want to mention anything. Anyone else I've just got some questions, but I'll wait. Okay. Uh to to the board. Ms. Gara is here. Good morning. Good morning. How is this gonna work in practice? Uh do you think? Um so we have been working with ITMD. We have um we use a cellar and so a sala. We have a field where it lists the expiration date. So any time something is approved through the board, we're able to indicate in that field when it expires. Um so we were able to work with ITMD to get a report drafted out where we can pull these items and then send out the report to the alder and to DNS. So we'll because there's probably a lot of that going on, right? There yes, unfortunately.