Sponsor
Alderman Wisneski
Title
Ordinance 8-12 - Access Corridor and Downtown Area Design Guidelines
An ordinance amending Access Corridor and Downtown Area Design Guidelines
The Common Council of the City of Racine, Wisconsin, do ordain as follows:
Part 1: Create 114-328(19), 114-428(20), 114-468(29), 114-488(19), 114-568(38) to read as follows: “Uses as described in Sec. 114-825(b).”
Part 2: In Sec. 114-637, Access Corridor Overlay District, Mapped Districts; delete the “State Street corridor district” and its description, in its entirety.
Part 3: Create 114-822(9) Downtown Area Design Guidelines, Purpose and Intent, to read as follows:
(9) Promote the use, development and maintenance of property adjacent to or proximate to the Root River in order to accomplish public safety, environmental protection, economic development, and public health and recreation objectives.
Part 4: In Sec. 114-823, Downtown Area Design Guidelines, Definitions repeal and recreate the definition of “downtown area” as follows:
Begin at a point being on the centerline of North Wisconsin Street approximately 190 feet north of the intersection of the centerlines of North Wisconsin Street and Hamilton Street; from said beginning point proceed east to the center line of Main Street, then north along said centerline to the centerline of Hubbard Street; then easterly along the Hubbard Street centerline to the west line of Michigan Boulevard; then southerly along said west line 200 feet; the east to a line being the western shore of Lake Michigan (including those lands found south of the easterly extended centerline of the Root River and north, and west, of the harbor’s south breakwater); then southerly along said line to a point on the extended centerline of Tenth Street; then west along said extended centerline to a point on the centerline of Wisconsin Street; then north along said centerline to a point on the centerline of Ninth Street; then west along said centerline to a poi...
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