Wednesday, November 28, 2012
In last opportunity for challenges before the Public Service Commission rules, almost all in a large turnout of citizens demands power lines be buried.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Hundreds of Wauwatosa and Milwaukee residents filled the chambers of the Common Council on Tuesday in hearings before the Wisconsin Public Service Commission, and almost to a single person their message was: "Bury the lines." In a debate that has gone on for more than a year, this was the last public part. The decision on exactly where two new 138,000-volt power lines will be routed, and whether all or parts of them will be overhead or underground, now rests with the PSC. That decision will come in March, as the members of the PSC, their lawyers and advisers, pore through reams of technical documents and testimony. Early this year, residents of the Fisher Woods and Underwood Creek Parkway neighborhoods, as well a neighborhood in …
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Preserve Our Parkway has put out the word and garnered more than 600 signatures on a petition to keep lines out of Underwood Creek area.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012
The public had a large say in informing the city on a course in the long-simmering debate over the route of a new power line through west Wauwatosa. The public input steered the Common Council and City Attorney Alan Kesner to draft an ordinance opposing overhead lines on any route, and to ask the Wisconsin Public Service Commission in hearings to select a specific all-underground route from Walnut Road and North 120th Street to the County Grounds. Now, it is the general public's turn again. The PSC will convene public hearings on the transmission line routes, and how they are to be installed, at 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers at City Hall. One group of citizens has been marshalling forces toward this day for months. Preserve…
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Gale Klappa's support for Wauwatosa's preference could be key to getting the PSC to nod to the city's wishes for no more overhead transmission lines.
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- Jim Price
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
Less than a week before the city is scheduled to begin presenting testimony before the Public Service Commission on a perferred route for a power line through west Wauwatosa, it has in hand the potent supporting document it has been hoping for. Gale Klappa, the CEO of We Energies, co-signed a letter with Mayor Kathy Ehley and Common Council President Dennis McBride concurring in an all-underground route from West 120th Street to the County Grounds. Klappa's support is seen as a powerful message to the PSC and possibly critical to persuading the commissioners to choose the city's preferred but more expensive route over one proposed by American Transmission Co., which will construct the line. In June, City Attorney Alan Kesner recommended …
Wednesday, September 19, 2012
After months of debate, issue is still contentious and council cannot come out with a unanimous voice, settling for an 11-4 decision.
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- Jim Price
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
Wauwatosa will join Milwaukee County and other parties in recommending an underground route that would run in part down residential Walnut Road for one of two new power lines to supply growing County Grounds institutions. On an 11-4, vote Tuesday night, the Common Council approved the selection as the preferred route to be presented to the Wisconsin Public Service Commission (PSC), which has final say on where the new routes will go and how they will be installed – above or below ground. The lines will be built by American Transmission Co. (ATC) for We Energies, supplier of the power. ATC, as the applicant, has already begun testimony before the PSC. Wauwatosa and other "intervenors" opposed to the installations being proposed by ATC will …
Monday, August 20, 2012
The utility CEO signed a letter supporting underground alternatives for a power line in a different location. But Wauwatosa must first choose its own preferred route before it can hope for backing from utility company, city attorney says.
If Wauwatosa can somehow come to grips with controversy and pick a preferred underground route from the west for a new power line to the County Grounds, it could win an important endorsement. It might be the most important endorsement it could possibly get — from We Energies, the utility that would sell the power carried on that line. We Energies CEO Gale Klappa signed a joint letter Aug. 2 with Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Ald. Michael Murphy in support of underground alternatives only for a second power line from the south through a Milwaukee neighborhood. The letter made no mention of any preference for any route for the western approach through Wauwatosa, underground or overhead. But that could be because Wauwatosa has not yet made …
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Attorney Alan Kesner tells council that slowdown in the process offers a chance to improve an existing alternative but not time to go looking for new ones.
A two-month delay in the hearing process on power line routes will give Wauwatosa "more breathing room" to gather information, City Attorney Alan Kesner said. But he isn't counseling stretching the timeline to the new limit. Kesner told the Common Council on Tuesday night that it was not his wish or intention to open things up again for consideration of whole new alternative route proposals. Rather, he said, he, along with the city's legal and engineering advisers and expert witnesses, would be looking at "tweaks" to alternatives that have already been put on the table. The delay, in which Wauwatosa had no part, will allow time to explore modifications that might make a new western power route more palatable – if, in the end, the Wisconsin…
Monday, July 9, 2012
Discussion and any action on Walnut Road route through western Wauwatosa now expected to take place July 17 prior to regular Common Council meeting.
A discussion of the route of one of two new power lines in west Tosa – possibly the last public discussion – has been delayed a week, city officials said Monday. After a recommendation from the Community Development Committee was put off at its last meeting, on June 26, it was expected to revisited and likely acted on at the committee's next meeting, at 8 p.m. Tuesday. But Ald. Jeff Roznowski, the committee chairman, said Monday that the power line discussion had been taken off this week's agenda and would be dealt with the following Tuesday, July 17, before the regular meeting of the full council. The debate is now planned for a meeting of the Committee of the Whole at 6 p.m. the following week, prior to the regular 7:30 p.m. meeting of …
Friday, June 29, 2012
Walnut Road, Underwood Parkway residents' support for one another evaporates over issues of impact on homeowners in city attorney's recommended route.
Back in February, when Wauwatosa said "No" to both of two alternative power line routes to approach the County Grounds from the west, there was an almost celebratory, "one for all, all for one" atmosphere. People from across the city and from organizations beyond, public officials from Wauwatosa, Milwaukee and Milwaukee County – everybody spoke with one voice in support of the objections of the few, that no neighborhood should be subjected to the kind of imposition American Transmission Co. (ATC) was proposing. That unanimity has eroded, unraveling at the seams and pitting neighborhood against neighborhood. It has led one neighbor on Walnut Road to declare "We have been lied to and misled," and another to say "We're done" with supporting …
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Monday, June 25, 2012
Stakeholders' preferred alternative would go under street instead of through front yards, preserving trees.
In a memo to members of the Common Council, City Attorney Alan Kesner explained why he and other parties to the power line controversy in west Tosa now recommend a route very close to one the city had already officially opposed. But Kesner also warned that even though the modified alternative being proposed, which would follow residential Walnut Road, is less intrusive than the original ATC version, it is still deeply disliked by residents there. Basically, the new proposal asks that the power lines be put under the street instead of through residents' front yards. That would preserve their trees and lawns, and bury fears about electromagnetic fields farther from homes and under pavement. Nevertheless, a number of Walnut Road neighbors …
Monday, February 27, 2012
Preserve Our Parkway plans to submit at least three route alternatives.
A contentious proposal for high-voltage power lines has been filed with the Public Service Commission, setting in motion a nearly year-long review that will culminate with a decision on where and how the 138,000-volt power lines will be sited, a spokesperson with American Transmission Co. said. The project has stirred controversy not over the need for additional power but over how two 2-mile stretches of high-voltage lines will track through Wauwatosa and a portion of the city of Milwaukee to serve the growing institutions on the County Grounds. ATC will propose four route options and seeks PSC approval for two – one from the west and one from the south. The high-voltage lines will lead to a new WE Energies substation proposed for North …
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