Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC review Vision 2050

SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN REGIONAL PLANNING COMMISSION is the strategic planning czar and traffic cop for implementation of growth planning in the state of Wisconsin.  It was put in place 1960 by Governor Gaylord Nelson.

Taking stock

If Milwaukeeans are to "climb-out" of the malaise of poverty and its burdens, it must be an intricate part of Vision 2050.

Milwaukee is the gateway, largest city and the only 1st Class city (population based) for the state of Wisconsin.

The status  is based on population, census count, growth, non-growth, stagnation patterns and not-included areas of the city of Milwaukee in strategic plannning and Smart Growth implementation.  So, why is Milwaukee mired in Enduring Concentrated Poverty?

Atonement & Assessment

Milwaukee Professionals Association LLC continues to review public policies that are in the past-present-interim and future that creates solutions in the Infrastructure that will have Milwaukeeans out of poverty - enduring concentrated poverty, such as seen in the city of Milwaukee.  

MPA LLC created in 2010 the initiative of AHOD - All Hands on Deck, You Not me.  It was changed to:  All Hands on Deck, WE CAN in late 2011.

The AHOD Initiative calls for re-defining, re-branding and UN-trapping Milwaukeeans, especially African American, other People of Color and the Work Challenged.

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The 2050 Vision needs components for UPscaling the three (3) populations above in the city of Milwaukee.  Milwaukee County, the county seat is located in the city of Milwaukee - one of the counties it is responsible for.

MPA LLC has adopted twelve of the present 15 guidelines given by Southeastern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. 

During the second phase of MPA LLC Atonement and Reparation, MPA LLC will continue its work on People, Land Use, Resources and Lifesyles; with key points of penetration on the issues of:

• INCARCERATION
• Employment
• Construction
• Transit 

This calls for dialog, research and support of issues that address the "need for" population quality of life concerns, barriers for employment, distance to employment, special issues of incarceration and re-entry and convenience of travel in and out of the city to employment sites.

This is in reference to the governmental responsibility of the federal dollars for state, county and local roadways for the travel and convenience of those who live in the city of Milwaukee with "needs for" travel to wherever the jobs are in the city and outside of the city.

We start with the following:

-  Smart Growth prerequisites 

-  WISDOT

    * Highway project I-94 west

    * Settlement from WISDOT to Milwaukee County

-  Transportation Improvement Program (2013-2016) Milwaukee County and city of Milwaukee due July 31, 2014

-  Population co-hort component method (pop report - No. 11, 5th ed.)

-  Household projections (pop. report - No. 11, 5th ed.)

-  Lack inclusion in commission writer 

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RECOMMENDED REGIONAL RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM: 1990

The original 1990 regional transportation plan recommended a motor bus-based rapid transit system to provide a high level of efficient, economical transit service within the most heavily urbanized portions of the Region. 

Buses operating in mixed traffic over a completed regional freeway system were expected to provide fast and regular service throughout the Milwaukee urbanized area. Within the East-West travel corridor in Milwaukee County, the plan proposed an exclusive busway that would parallel the East-West Freeway and avoid anticipated congestion on that freeway. While that busway was taken to preliminary engineering by the 

Milwaukee County Expressway and Transportation Commission, it was never built. That busway facility, 

however, became part of the originally approved national Interstate Highway System and, with the closeout of that system in the early 1990’s, became the basis for an award of $291 million in Federal transportation funds to the Milwaukee area. Over the years, that money has been used to retain consultants to study the development of light rail and other guideway transit technologies, to rebuild the Marquette Interchange, to remove the Park East Freeway, and to rebuild the 6th Street viaduct. The approximately $91 million remaining in 2010 were being programmed by Milwaukee County for the purchase of new buses, and by the City of Milwaukee for a proposed central area streetcar facility. The 1990 plan also proposed a supporting system of outlying park-ride facilities. 

By 2010, 18 of those facilities were in place. 

Its core plan remains the land use and transportation plan. Periodically, SEWRPC revisits the plan and recasts it to reflect changes in development, the economy, and technology. 

The present land use and transportation plan is the fifth iteration of the first and looks toward the year 2035. Nonetheless, it retains the basic principles of the first plan, including the protection of environmental corridors and agricultural lands, the preservation and development of parks and neighborhoods and the orderly, contiguous growth of established urban areas.
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