Sponsor
Alderman Wiser
Title
ZOrd. 001-15
Ordinance adopting an amendment to a document titled “A Comprehensive Plan for the City of Racine: 2035” (Comprehensive Plan) to adopt and incorporate therein a document titled “Uptown Neighborhood Strategic Development Plan” (Uptown Plan).
The Common Council of the City of Racine do ordain as follows:
Part 1: Pursuant to Section 62.23 of the Wisconsin Statutes, the City of Racine is authorized to prepare and adopt certain amendments to the Comprehensive Plan as defined in Sections 66.1001(1)(a) and 66.1001(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes; and
Part 2: On January 14, 2015 the Plan Commission forwarded a recommendation to the Common Council that an ordnance be prepared, that a community open house before the Plan Commission be scheduled, that public hearing be before the Common Council be scheduled, and that a resolution and ordinance be prepared for an amendment to the Comprehensive Plan to effectuate the adoption and incorporation therein of a document titled “Uptown Neighborhood Strategic Development Plan” (Uptown Plan), and that the community open house be scheduled for February 25, 2015 and the public hearings before the Common Council be scheduled for March 3, 2015; and
Part 3: The Plan Commission of the City of Racine conducted a community open house on February 25, 2015 to solicit opinion and educate the public on a proposed amendment to Comprehensive Plan to adopt and incorporate therein the Uptown, and
Part 4: The Plan Commission of the City of Racine, on February 25, 2015 by a majority vote of the commission recorded in its official minutes, recommended to the City Common Council approval of a resolution and ordinance adopting and incorporating the Uptown Plan as an amendment to the Comp Plan; and
Part 5: The Common Council has duly noticed and conducted a public hearing on the amendment to Comprehensive Plan, in compliance with the requirements of Section 66.1001(4)(d) of the Wisconsin Statutes.
Part 6: The Common Council of the City of Racine, Wisconsin, does, by the enactment of this ordinance, formally amendment the document titled “A Comprehensive Plan for the City of Racine: 2035” to adopt and incorporate therein the document titled “Uptown Neighborhood Strategic Development Plan”, pursuant to Section 62.23 and Section 66.1001(4)(c) of the Wisconsin Statutes.
Part 7: The design guidelines contained in the document titled “Uptown Improvement Plan, Racine Wisconsin” as adopted by the Common Council on May 7 , 2005 and incorporated in Chapter 114 the Municipal Code of the City of Racine on July 5, 2005 through Ord. No. 11-05, shall remain in full force and effect, except where in conflict with the Uptown Plan as hereby adopted.
Part 8: This ordinance shall take effect upon passage by a majority vote of the members-elect of the City Common Council and publication or posting as required by law.