Wisconsin Town House Builders, Inc. v. City of Madison

The City’s Power to Establish a Controlled-Access Street.

Cities under the home-rule amendment as implemented by statute have police power to create and lay out controlled-access streets. By art. XI, sec. 3 of the Wisconsin Constitution, cities and villages were empowered to determine their local affairs and government subject to the constitution and such enactments of the legislature of statewide concern as shall with uniformity affect every city and village. Ch. 62, Stats., confers all necessary powers on cities operating under home rule which are not enumerated as limitations upon their…