City of Delafield - Delafield Mayor Ed McAleer will present to the Common Council Monday night a revised version of his proposal to impose a moratorium on future development in downtown Delafield until a downtown land use plan is completed and approved.

Instead, McAleer is going to recommended the moratorium be restricted to development in a 30 acre neighborhood located east and south of City Hall until the city determines whether it wants to develop a road network that will connect the neighborhood to Genesee Street and remaining downtown business districts.

McAleer said that Acting City Administrator Marilyn Czubkowski and developer Bob Lang convinced him to revise his proposal.

McAleer said he wanted a moratorium on all of the downtown business district until the city had an opportunity to complete a storm water control plan. However, the city has already completed such a plan, Czubkowski has informed the mayor.

McAleer said he also understood Lang's concerns that the word "moratorium" had a negative connotation that could affect Lang's and other downtown land owners ability to sell or develop their properties.

McAleer said since the storm water plan had been completed and the only land remaining in the city that might be redeveloped is the 30 acres behind City Hall, a moratorium on development throughout the business district may not be necessary.

Lang may still be impacted by the moratorium since he owns about 14 of the 30- acres behind city hall that will be subject to a moratorium, if approved by the Common Council, until the city decides on whether to plan a street network in the neighborhood.

City of Delafield - Newly elected Mayor McAleer says the city should impose a three to four month moratorium on new development in the downtown business district to give city planners time to update the business district's land use plan.

McAleer said that City Planner Roger Dupler of Yaggy Colby Associates, the city's consulting engineering and planning firm, is working on the details of a moratorium proposal that will be on the agenda for the next Common Council meeting on May 19.

McAleer told the council Monday night that the moratorium was necessary because he was anticipating that new land owners and developers will be making presentations in the future to the council for new development plans.

"I don't want those plans approved piecemeal before we get a chance to complete an update of the downtown plan," he told the council.

City officials have been discussing for several months developing a revised downtown land use plan. The new plan might include development of a new street and traffic grid system downtown, according to McAleer.

Some downtown property owners have proposed extending either Division or Onieda streets to Genesee Street to provide better access to about 30 acres of undeveloped land located south and east of City Hall.

Developer Bob Lang owns three separate parcels totaling about 14 acres behind city hall. McAleer said that Lang is attempting to sell the property.

"Now is probably a good time to do it (the moratorium). Because of the economy we don't have developers beating down our door," said McAleer.

McAleer, who served as mayor from 1994 to 2002, supported a city wide moratorium that was imposed in 2000 to give city planners a chance to up date the city's zoning code.

McAleer was elected to another term as mayor in April.