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Ordinance amending Sections 15.10.010, 15.10.015, and 15.10.050 and Subsection 15.10.020 A. and creating Section 15.10.013 of the Wauwatosa Municipal Code to specify design approval processes for new single-family and two-family housing structures
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The Common Council of the City of Wauwatosa do ordain as follows:
Part I. Section 15.10.010 of the Wauwatosa Municipal Code is hereby amended to read in its entirety as follows:
A. "Nonresidential structure" means structures other than one- and two-family residential properties.
B. No building permit for any nonresidential structure for which a building permit is required shall be issued unless it has received the approval of the design review board. except that historically designated commercial structures or those located at historic sites or within historic districts shall be subject to design review by the historic preservation commission as described in Subsection 24.17.010 D.8. of this Wauwatosa Municipal Code.
C. The design review board shall consider the exterior architectural appeal, the site location and proposed location of the structure on the building site, the landscaping, topography and whether the structure to be altered or constructed shall be so similar to, or so at variance from, other structures already constructed or under construction in the immediate neighborhood of the applicable district if, in the board's opinion, it causes a substantial depreciation in the property value of the neighborhood within the applicable district.
Part II. Section 15.10.013 of the Wauwatosa Municipal Code is hereby created to read in its entirety as follows:
A. "Building, new" is defined in 15.04.020
B. No building permit for any new single-family or two-family residential construction for which a building permit is required shall be issued unless it has received the approval of the design review board, except that historically designated commercial structures or those located at historic sites or wit...
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