A large crowd packed New Berlin City Hall on Wednesday night as the city’s Board of Appeals heard hours of testimony over a challenge to the proposed Milwaukee Rescue Mission recovery facility.
The dispute centers on whether the proposed 120-bed men’s recovery center qualifies as a church under New Berlin zoning rules.
WATCH: New Berlin Board of Appeals hears a challenge to the proposed Milwaukee Rescue Mission recovery facility
No decision on New Berlin recovery center
Last year, the New Berlin Plan Commission ruled the project, called the New Journey program, could move forward in an M-1 light industrial district without rezoning after determining it met the city’s definition of a “community scale church.”…