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DCD's Planning Division and Development Center help developers building new projects, small business owners expanding their businesses, and homeowners making property improvements.

Commission

City Plan Commission (CPC)

·	Check the status of CPC actions

Quick Links

Development Center (permits & zoning)

ePermits

·	Check status of plan submitted to Development Center for review

Board of Zoning Appeals

Zoning Code

Census data

Mayor's Design Awards

Planning glossary pdf

Plans/Studies

·	All plans and studies

·	Comprehensive planning

·	Citywide Policy Plan

·	Presentation on comprehensive planning in Milwaukee

·	Area plans

Downtown

Fond du Lac and North

Menomonee Valley

Near North

Near South

Near West

Northeast

Northwest

Southeast

Southwest

Third Ward

Washington Park

West

·	Find your area plan

·	Area plan maps

·	Area plan catalytic projects

Design Guidelines

·	Urban Design Resources
·	Streetscape Guidelines
·	Milwaukee River
·	Third Ward
·	Westown

Development Incentive Zones (active)

·	5th / Layton

·	938 W Layton

·	The Brewery Project

·	East End Menomonee Valley

·	Holt Plaza

·	Loomis Centre

·	Midtown Center

·	North Ave Commerce Center

·	Port of Milwaukee

·	Reed Street Yards

·	South 27th / Howard

·	Towne Corporate Park of Granville

Neighborhood Conservation Zones

·	Bay View / South Shore Drive

·	Brewers Hill / Harambee

Redevelopment Plans

·	20th and Brown pdf

·	Avenues West

·	Beerline B

·	Bronzeville

·	Capitol / 35th pdf

·	King and Reservoir pdf

Park East

·	Port of Milwaukee

Other Plans and Studies

·	Havenwoods

·	Industrial land analysis

Lakefront

·	UWM neighborhood

Organization

Development Center

Long Range Planning

Planning Administration

Applications and Procedures

Zoning Change

·	Check status of zoning change

·	Application form pdf

·	Affidavit for zoning change pdf

·	Application procedure pdf

·	Processing schedule

·	Check the zoning of a property

Planned Development

·	Detailed submittal checklist pdf

·	General submittal checklist pdf

·	Application form pdf

·	Affidavit for zoning change pdf

·	Project description and owner's statement of intent pdf

·	Processing schedule

·	Minor modification to planned development pdf

·	Minor modification to planned development application pdf

Site Plan Review Overlay District

·	Application form pdf
·	Application form to deviate from performance or design standards pdf

·	Riverwalk site plan review overlay district information pdf

Development Incentive Zone

·	General information pdf

·	Application form pdf

·	Processing schedule

Neighborhood Conservation
Overlay Zone

·	General information

·	Procedures

·	Permit process

·	Review certificates

Land Division

·	Check status of land division

·	Certified survey map application pdf .

·	Certified survey map: application procedure pdf

·	Subdivision creating 5 or more parcels: application procedure pdf

·	Subdivision application pdf

Street or Alley Vacation

·	Check status of vacation

·	Application form pdf

·	Application procedure pdf

Group Residential

·	Adult Family Homes (AFHs) pdf

·	Community Living Arrangements (CLAs) pdf

Zoning Districts

Zoning Code

·	Zoning Code on-line

·	Check the zoning of a property

·	City Code of Ordinances

River Overlay Zone

·	Milwaukee River Greenway Site Plan Review Overlay Zone

Interim Study Overlay Zone (IS)

·	What is IS zoning?

Flood Plain Overlay Zone revisions

·	Lincoln Creek

·	Valley Park

·	Check a property's flood plain status

Redevelopment Zoning (RED)

·	What is RED zoning?

·	RED variance application pdf

Areas zoned RED:

·	Beerline B

·	Eastern end of Menomonee Valley Plan area (6th/Canal)

Park East

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