On Tuesday night, the City of Sturgeon Bay took another step toward dissolving the long-standing Waterfront Redevelopment Authority (WRA).    The WRA, established in 1990 to improve the downtown waterfront and provide more public-friendly use, held its last meeting last month, making its final recommendation to turn over the rights of the development agreement with Will Estes, LLC to the city. Sturgeon Bay Mayor David Ward says action taken at Tuesday’s City Council meeting reassigned the rights to the contract that deals with the parking lot at Sonny’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria. He says transfers of previous deeds and leases must be completed before the council can formally dissolve the WRA, which is expected at its second meeting in February.

 
Ward adds that the Sturgeon Bay Common Council approved four-second readings of ordinances for tourist rooming houses, weight and measures regulations, and state building codes. An extension for a development agreement on an Industrial Flex Building was also granted until the end of July for the developers, Howard Immel Inc.,  to find tenants.