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Customer information topics and applications

Below is a list of information sheets that are available in the Development Center. When viewing the information sheets, click on blue text to obtain further information about that topic.

Most of the information sheets are in Adobe PDF (they will therefore look the same as the information sheets available in the office). In order to view and print these documents, you must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader (version 8.0 or higher) installed with your Web browser.

A  B  C  D  E  F  G  H  I-K  L  M  N  O  P-Q  R  S  T  U  V  W-Y  Z

A

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Accessibility analysis (information about ADA requirements)
· Accessibility analysis worksheet
· Adult Family Homes (AFHs)
· Air or subterranean space lease petition
· Alleys and streets, application for vacation
· Alleys and streets, vacating
· Alterations, attic
· Alterations, basement
· Alteration, commercial
· Alteration, residential
· Applications

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Architect involvement in your project
· Asbestos project permits
· Asbestos project permit application
· Attic alterations or conversions
· Automatic fire extinguishing system

B

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Banner (vertical) display permit
· Basement alterations or conversions
· Block party permit application
· Board of Zoning Appeals overview
· Board of Zoning Appeals administrative information
· Boiler, furnace, AC/refrigeration, power piping
· Building, moving 
· Building permit
· Building permit checklist

C

·

Case management of development projects
· Certificate of appropriateness application
· Certificate of supervision form
· Certification of footings
· Certified survey map
· Certified survey map application
· City Plan Commission
· City Plan Commission actions: check status
· Cleaning permits for exterior masonry
· Commercial buildings -- alterations
· Commercial buildings -- new construction and additions
· Community living arrangements (CLAs)
· Concrete contractors licensed by the city
· Conditional permits before discretionary approval is obtained
· Conditional permit request
· Contractors, concrete, licensed
· Contractors, electrical, licensed
· Contractors, licensed
· Contractors, home improvement, licensed
· Contractors, plumbing, licensed
· Conversions, attic
· Conversions, basement
· Conversion, duplex to single-family
· Credit card authorization form

D

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Day care centers -- building code requirements
  Day care homes, family
· Decks
· Deed restriction
· Demolition
· Denial of occupancy certificate - what happens next?
· Design professional involvement
· Detailed plan development submittal checklist
· Development incentive zones
· Development incentive zone application
· Draining roofs and yards
· Driveway permit application
· Dumpsters in the public way
· Duplex conversion to single-family home

E

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Electrical permit application
· Electrical contractors licensed by the City
· ePermits
· Erosion control certification
· Erosion control check sheet
· Erosion control for home builders
· Erosion control permits
· Excessive size, weight, load permit application

F

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Family day care homes
· Fence -- building code requirements
· Fence permits
· Fence permit application
· Festival -- what is a festival?
· Festival permit application
· Festival permit application site plan and plan of operation
· Fire detection and alarm system plan review
· Fire extinguishing system, automatic
· Fire hydrant permit fees
· Fire protection plan examination application
· Fire sprinkler plan review
· Flood plain information
· Footing and foundation permits
· Footings, certification of

G

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Garage -- one and two-family homes
· General plan development submittal checklist

H

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Handicapped ramps
· Historic building occupancy
· Historic district designation application
· Historic Preservation Commission
· Historic property -- certificate of appropriateness
· Historic property -- certificate of appropriateness application form
· Historic site or structure designation application and instructions
· Home-based occupation or business
· Home improvement contractors license
· Home improvement contractors licensed by the City
· Home occupation, statement of
· Homes -- new construction and additions
· House numbers and address assignment
· HVAC permit application
· HVAC permit fee schedule
· HVAC plan review
· Hydrant permit fees

I-K

·

Kitchen ventilation system, commercial


 

L

·

Land division -- check status

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Land division -- certified survey map
· Land division -- application for certified survey map
· Land division -- subdivision creating 5 or more parcels
· Land division -- application for subdivision creating 5 or more parcels
· Lead hazard reduction project permits
· Letter of completion
· License, requirement for home improvement contractors
· Licensed concrete contractors
· Licensed contractors
· Licensed electrical contractors
· Licensed home improvement contractors
· Licensed plumbing contractors,
· Licenses -- businesses requiring a City license

M

·

Masonry building cleaning permit application 

N

·

Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone
· Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone procedure
· Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone permits
· Neighborhood Conservation Overlay Zone variance application
· Noise, temporary variance permit
· Noise, temporary variance permit application

O

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Occupancy certificate
· Occupancy certificate application
· Occupancy certificate, denial of -- what happens next?
· Occupancy certificate status
· Occupancy inspections
· Occupying a building before it passes inspections
· Out-of-program agreements
· Ownership change -- residential properties

P - Q

·

Parking lot inquiry form
· Parking lots--new and additions
· Parking meter hood request
· Permit fees
· Plan development, minor modification
· Plan development project description and owner's statement of intent
· Plan development submittal checklist: detailed plan development
· Plan development submittal checklist: general plan development
· Plan examination application
· Plan review fees
· Plumbing contractors licensed by the City
· Plumbing permit affidavit-homeowner
· Plumbing permit application
· Plumbing plan examination application
· Plumbing plan review
· Plumbing plan review fee schedule
· Porches
· Preliminary plan reviews
· Property record maintenance charge
· Property research resources
· Public way fees
· Public way occupancy
· Public way permit application

R

·

Raze permit application

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RED variance application
· Remodeling projects -- one and two family homes
· Renewing a building permit
· Residential, alteration
· Residential rebuild provisions
· Residential zoning code
· Right-of-way vacation: check status
· Riverwalk projects
· Riverwalk site plan review overlay districts
· Roofs, draining

S

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Schools -- building code requirements
· Sewer release form
· Sheds
· Sidewalk cafes
· Sidewalk cafes -- permit application
· Signs
· Signs, storefront
· Site plan review overlay district application
· Skywalks
· Special events
· Special event permit application
· Special event permit checklist
· Special event planning
· Special privileges
· Spray booth
· Sprinkler systems
· Standards and Appeals Commission
· Statement of home occupation
· Storefront signage
· Storm water management plans
· Streets and alleys, application for vacation
· Streets and alleys, vacating
· Subdivision plats
· Subterranean or air space lease petition
· Survey of property
· Swimming pool construction permit application
· Swimming pool packet
· Swimming pools -- private

T

·

Telephone information -- Milwaukee Development Center
· Temporary event permit application
· Temporary noise variance permit
· Temporary occupancy before discretionary approval is obtained
· Temporary occupancy certificate request
· Transmission towers
· Tunnels

U

·

Urban design principles
· Utility vaults

V
· Vacation: check status

·

Vacating streets and alleys
· Vacating streets and alleys application

W - Y

·

Water connection permits
· Water connection fee schedule
· Water hydrant permit fees
· Water service application
· Wisconsin Uniform Building Permit application
· Work in the public way

Z

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Zoning change
· Zoning change affidavit
· Zoning change application
· Zoning change: check status
· Zoning ordinance





 

 

 
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