A law passed last fall requiring new construction and expansions in Madison, Wis., to include bird-safe designs and materials has been formally challenged by an advocacy group representing several Wisconsin construction and real estate industry associations.
The group, Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty, filed a notice of claim with the City of Madison Common Council on March 3, asserting that the city’s recently passed ordinance on bird-safe building materials is pre-empted by Wisconsin’s unified building code. WILL is representing four groups: the Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin, the Commercial Association of Realtors of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Builders Association, and NAOIP Wisconsin, a commercial real estate group.