If you buy a property that has sidewalks , you are well aware of their presence and that is acceptable!
The mayor talks about people with wheelchairs going to the store etc.
There are no stores within miles of the sidewalks, from Cold Spring to
Grange avenues. It goes from nowhere to nowhere.
If the people in Hales Corners & Greenfield want their track team
to run on the sidewalk, let them build it on the east side and that way
no one will have to cross 124th street multiple times to go to the gas
station or the beauty shop on Layton avenue.
If those non residents of New Berlin want more trails etc., they can advocate for those in their own cities and county.
There
is a letter on fill to the Mayor and Council from First Weber Realty,
disclosing that the side walk on the west side of 124th would reduce
the value of those properties from 10 to 20 percent on properties that
have their backs to 124th street.
Paul Koller, Assessor, has said that those properties that have their
backs to 124th street already have lower assessments than properties
deeper into the sub division.
We have reason to believe that there are no lower assessed valuations due to property backs being towards 124th Street.
We call on the New Berlin Assessors office to prove his statement or to rescind his comments.
We have no problem with City Engineer J P Walker making recommendations to the Department of Public works.
However New Berlin Citizens for Responsible Government have
stated numerous times that since he is a non-resident of the City
of New Berlin ( lives in Watertown), he should NOT be a VOTING member on the Department of Public Works committee.
Since
we have City Staff members who have made drawings and plans for 124th
street, the question arises as to the need to spend another $197,000 to
have a design company tell the city what it already has decided. That
money can be put to better use elsewhere.
Ralph Heun President NBCRG
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