62.71 Pedestrian malls in 1st class cities.
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62.71 Pedestrian malls in 1st class cities.
(1)Purpose. The purpose of this section is to authorize a 1st class city to undertake, develop, finance, construct and operate pedestrian malls as local improvements.
(2)Definitions. In this section:
(a)“Annual pedestrian mall improvement” includes any reconstruction, replacement or repair of trees, plantings, furniture, shelters or other pedestrian mall facilities.
(b)“Annual pedestrian mall improvement cost” includes planning consultant fees, public liability and property damage insurance premiums, reimbursement of the city’s reasonable and necessary costs incurred in operating and maintaining a pedestrian mall, levying and collecting special assessments and taxes, publication costs, and any other costs related to annual improvements and the operation and maintenance of a pedestrian mall.
(c)“Board of assessment” means the board created under subch. II of ch. 32 , for the purpose of estimating benefits and damages in connection with the creation or improvement of a pedestrian mall.
(d)“Business district” means an existing recognized area of a city principally used for commerce or trade.
(e)“City” means a 1st class city.
(f)“Commissioner of public works” means the board of public works, commissioner of public works, or any other city board or officer vested with authority over public works.
(g)“Community development advisory body” means any corporation or unincorporated association whose shareholders or members are owners or occupants of property included in a proposed or existing pedestrian mall district.
(h)“Council” and “common council” mean the governing body of the city.
(i)“Intersecting street” means, unless the council declares otherwise, any street which meets or intersects a pedestrian mall, but includes only those portions of the intersecting street which lay between the mall or mall intersection and the first intersection of the intersecting street with a street open to general vehicular traffic.
(j)“Mall intersection” means any intersection of a city street which is part of a pedestrian mall with any other street.
(k)“Owner” includes any person holding the record title of an estate in possession in fee simple or for life, or a vendor of record under a land contract for the sale of an estate in possession in fee simple or for life.