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…
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, November 7, 2011
Proposals for electrical service upgrade could affect Underwood Parkway as well some residential areas.
- THE NEIGHBORHOOD FILES
- Jim Price
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Monday, November 7, 2011
Preserve Our Parkway, a new organization concerned about proposals for new power lines on the west side of Wauwatosa, is hosting a community meeting tonight to educate neighbors about the impact of the plans on Underwood Creek Parkway, Underwood Creek and residential areas. The meeting will be in the Underwood Elementary School Gym, 11132 W. Potter Road, with an open house format from 5 to 7 p.m. and a presentation beginning at 7. American Transmission Company (ATC) is proposing an electric system reinforcement project that involves construction of a new We Energies substation adjacent to the existing Milwaukee County Substation at North 93rd Street and Watertown Plank Road, and construction of two separate 138,000-volt transmission lines …
Monday, September 12, 2011
Wauwatosa residents are among Milwaukee Montessori families opposed to overhead transmission lines.
- GOVERNMENT
- Jim Price
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Monday, September 12, 2011
A controversial plan with an option for massive new overhead power lines leading to the County Grounds met Monday with strong grass-roots resistance and a staunch political foe whose rallying cry is, "Bury the lines." Parents from the Milwaukee Montessori School, 345 N. 95th St. in Milwaukee, held a press conference at the Wauwatosa Civic Center an hour before American Transmission Co. convened an open house meeting on the project Monday afternoon. Vincent Lyles, a Wauwatosa resident who has two children at the school, said 20 percent of the 430 children enrolled live in Tosa, and that hundreds more families that live in Tosa immediately north of the school would also be affected. "The current plans have the lines running right along our …
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Medical Center, UWM officials say above-ground power lines would be a move backward on innovation campuses.
Some 430 invitations will go out this week for a Sept. 12 open house where the public can learn about the 138,000-volt electric power transmission lines proposed to traverse western Wauwatosa to serve its developing Highway 45 corridor. Although there seems to be little debate about the need for the new lines, whether segments of the new lines are built overhead – towering some 60 to 80 feet above ground – or buried underground is another matter. Key stakeholders who would be served by the new lines describe overhead towers as incongruous with the innovative businesses and development springing up in area. Environmentalists cite concerns about a proposed overheard transmission route that would hug Underwood Creek and follow a portion of …
Mike in Tosa
10:16 am on Friday, July 20, 2012
So, it sounds as the investigation to the idea of dropping them on North Ave has been squelched. more ›