As a minor programming note, it has been longer than we usually plan between newsletters. Part of the reason is we were very busy training and taking first place at the Riverwest 24 (in our hearts if not in reality). The good news is that because of that delay, this
The City of Milwaukee's Growing MKE plan was discussed in our last newsletter, and the final draft has been published. A provision that would have allowed multi-family apartments in RT3 and RT4 zoning districts was removed, unnecessarily weakening the plan. The City Plan Commission will be hearing testimony
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Growing MKE The City has published their Growing MKE Draft Plan. The plan is well-researched, comprehensive, based on extensive outreach over the last year, and lays out in detail what the plan seeks to achieve, and how the proposed solutions will help get us there. At a high level, the
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The big news this month is the United States Department of Transportation awarded Milwaukee a $36 million Reconnecting Communities Grant to rebuild 6th Street between North Avenue and National Avenue (2.6 miles) to include safer infrastructure for walking, biking and transit. This project is one of the "Catalytic
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Apologies for a bit of a delay between newsletters. We highly encourage you to spend some time reviewing the 2024 Traffic Calming and Bikeway Projects map released by DPW. You can see the full map here, thanks to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, which also wrote about the projects. Some projects
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Happy New Year! Isn't it a little late for that? Well, it's kind of rude of you to point that out, and in any case, there's more than one New Year. In the Jewish tradition, there's more than one new year. There