Reminder: Wauwatosa To Vote On UWM/County Grounds 'Improvement' Tonight
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Wauwatosa's Common Council meets tonight at 7:30 p.m. in City Hall, 76th St. and North Ave., and will vote whether to approve UWM's unfunded plan to build a new engineering school and so-called innovation center on a big piece of the Milwaukee County Grounds.
The project will compromise open space and rare Monarch Butterfly migration habitat, pave more than 80 acres of public lands and add traffic and air pollution through what is essentially a sprawl extension of the main UWM campus located miles to the East.
If it is to be built - - an open question - - the plan's ever-changing design and parameters need refinement and firmer boundaries, but without a crowd at the meeting, the Council may bend to the heavily-lobbied joint private sector/UWM real estate steamroller.
Good Tosa blog about it, here.
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Judging from the community development committee meeting last week, the "UWM steamroller" is already unstoppable. The questions being asked by the aldermen have to do with details of the plan. No one on the council seems to be questioning the overall plan. The assumption seems to be that it will be done, despite the overwhelming public opposition expressed at the public hearing on the matter.
On the plus side, some good questions have been asked and there should be some serious debate about restrictions on development. We'll see tonight.
Same old story.
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