City of Madison - File #: 42717

• File #: 42717
• Version: 1
• Name: Enviro Corridor Map Amendment Req re The Turn
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/27/2016
• In control: PLAN COMMISSION
• On agenda: 5/17/2016
• Final action: 5/17/2016
• Enactment date: 5/19/2016
• Enactment #: RES-16-00390
• Title: Authorizing the Planning Division and City Engineering Division to submit a request to the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission for a major amendment to the Environmental Corridor map to remove the approved The Turn at Cherokee subdivision and to allow grading within a wetland vegetative buffer, and to impose a building setback line on a proposed lot in the approved subdivision.
• Sponsors: Rebecca Kemble

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/17/2016	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
5/9/2016	1	PLAN COMMISSION	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
5/3/2016	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
4/27/2016	1	Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
No fiscal impact.

Title
Authorizing the Planning Division and City Engineering Division to submit a request to the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission for a major amendment to the Environmental Corridor map to remove the approved The Turn at Cherokee subdivision and to allow grading within a wetland vegetative buffer, and to impose a building setback line on a proposed lot in the approved subdivision.

Body
WHEREAS the Common Council adopted Resolution 16-00184 (ID 41145) approving the preliminary plat and final plat of “The Turn at Cherokee” subdivision located at 5204 N. Sherman Avenue on March 1, 2016 subject to conditions; and

WHEREAS said subdivision includes 16 single-family residential lots an outlot to be dedicated to the public for stormwater management (Outlot 2); and

WHEREAS the 6.2-acre subject parcel on which said subdivision is proposed is currently located in a mapped environmental corridor that also includes most of the Cherokee Country Club; and

WHEREAS the subject parcel was recommended for future development with low- to medium-density residential uses as part of Sub-Area 3 of the Cherokee Special Area Plan, said subdivision being found to be consistent with adopted plan recommendations; and

WHEREAS a 0.05-acre area of wetlands exists adjacent to N. Sherman Avenue within the proposed subdivision in the area of the proposed stormwater management outlot; and

WHEREAS the adopted policies of the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission require that all wetlands and a 75-foot minimum buffer be placed into Environmental Corridor and that no grading in a wetland vegetative buffer be allowed within 30 feet of the wetland edge unless the grading is intended to re-establish natural grades or to restore wetland habitat, including for stormwater management facilities; and

WHEREAS the City Engineer has determined that Outlot 2 cannot be constructed without grading closer than 30 feet of the wetland edge; and

WHEREAS it has bee...