Other Provisions of Official Map.
Milwaukee Code of Ordinances § 113-34
in effect113-34. Other Provisions of Official Map.
1. ALL NEW STRUCTURES TO BE SHOWN ON MAP. No public sewer or other municipal street utility or improvement shall be constructed in any street, highway or parkway until such street, highway or parkway is duly placed on the official map. No permit for the erection of any building shall be issued unless a street, highway or parkway giving access to such proposed structure has been duly placed on the official map. Where the enforcement of the provisions of this section would entail practical difficulty or unnecessary hardship, and where the circumstances of the case do not require the structure to be related to existing or proposed streets, highways or parkways, the applicant for such a permit may appeal from the decision of the commissioner of neighborhood services to the board of zoning appeals, and the same provisions are applied to such appeals and to such board as are provided in cases of appeals on zoning regulations. The board may in passing on such appeal make any reasonable exception, and issue the permit subject to conditions that will protect any future street, highway or parkway layout. Any such decision shall be subject to review by certiorari issued by a court of record in the same manner and pursuant to the same provisions as in appeals from the decision of such board upon zoning regulations.
2. PLANS NOT OFFICIAL. The placing of any street, alley, parkway or highway or expressway on the official map shall not in and of itself constitute or be deemed to constitute the opening or establishment of any street, alley, parkway, highway or expressway, or the taking or acceptance of any land for such purposes.
3. STREET CHANGES TO BE SHOWN. The locating, widening or closing, or the approval of the locating, widening or closing of streets, alleys, parkways, highways or expressways under provisions of law other than this section shall be deemed to be a change or addition to the official map and shall be subject to the provisions of ss. 113-30 to 113-34, except that changes or additions made by a subdivision plat approved by the city under ch. 236, Wis. Stats., shall not require the public hearing specified in this subsection if the changes or additions do not affect any land outside the platted area.
4. CITY OF MILWAUKEE ONLY. The city shall not include in the official map any highways, parkways or expressways maintained and operated by the county of Milwaukee without the approval of the county board of supervisors.
5. LAND RESERVED FOR STREET PURPOSES. Lands which have been reserved for street purposes, or which have been set aside by any grantor in any deed or other grant, shall not be separately shown on such map and shall not be identified as such, and the inclusion of any such lands within the bed of any street, alley, parkway, highway or expressway shown on such official map shall not be deemed to be an acceptance thereof by the city.
Source: City of Milwaukee Legislative Reference Bureau, Milwaukee City Charter and Code of Ordinances (city.milwaukee.gov master PDFs)URL: https://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/ccClerk/Ordinances/Volume-1/CH113.pdf#page=13Fetched: 10/26/2026