The Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone (NC)

The Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone (NC) is intended to provide a vehicle to initiate and implement programs for the revitalization or conservation of older areas or districts possessing distinctive features, identity, or character worthy of retention and enhancement. 

A Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone takes effect through a Neighborhood Conservation Plan adopted by the Common Council. The Neighbohood Conservation Plan establishes standards and conditions for development consistent with the purposes of the plan and may include changes in land use controls and development standards. In order to recieve a permit for a project in a Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone, projects must conform to the standards set forth in the Neighbohood Conservation Plan. An applicant may apply for a deviation from a performance standard or design standard of a Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone if a specific standard cannot be met.

Note: Please email copies of your application and affidavit to PlanAdmin@milwaukee.gov.
We will provide you with instructions on how to pay the application fee online.

You may mail the original documents to:
Dept. of City Development - Planning Administration
809 N. Broadway, 2nd Floor 
Milwaukee, WI  53202

Applications and Procedures

• Request to Deviate from Performance or Design Standards within Overlay Zone
• Processing Schedule

More Information

• General information about Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zones
• Information about establishing a Neighbohood Conservation Overlay Zone
• Limitation on permit issuance

To establish a Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone please contact Planning Administration at planadmin@milwaukee.gov

Approved Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zones

• Bay View / South Shore Drive
• Brewers Hill / Harambee
• Historic Mitchell Street