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Milwaukee aldermen will ask county to withdraw from SEWRPC
Published June 17, 2008 - BizTimes Daily
Milwaukee Aldermen Robert Bauman and Jim Bohl plan to introduce a resolution at the next Zoning, Neighborhoods and Development Committee meeting, calling for Milwaukee County to withdraw from the Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission (SEWRPC).
The committee will meet on Tuesday, June 24, at 9 a.m. in Milwaukee City Hall.
SEWRPC was created in 1960 by the Wisconsin legislature as an agency charged with performing comprehensive planning activities for a seven-county region that includes Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, Kenosha, Washington, Ozaukee and Walworth counties.
SEWRPC is governed by a 21-member commission.
According to the resolution by Bauman and Bohl, Milwaukee County has more than 47 percent of the region's population, but is allocated only 14 percent of the votes on the SEWRPC commission. They said the City of Milwaukee has 30 percent of the region's population, but no votes whatsoever on the SEWRPC commission.
The resolution notes that SEWRPC's offices are located "in a suburban, office-park-type setting in Pewaukee, inaccessible by public transportation and far removed from the urbanized Milwaukee community that accounts for the majority of southeastern Wisconsin's residents and tax base."
The resolution states, "The time has come for Milwaukee County, as the tax base, population, employment and transportation center of the region, to withdraw from SEWRPC and establish its own one-county regional planning commission."
