City of Madison - File #: 69493

• File #: 69493
• Version: 1
• Name: Authorizing the development of a neighborhood plan for the Hawthorne-Truax Area
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 1/25/2022
• In control: Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development
• On agenda: 2/22/2022
• Final action: 2/22/2022
• Enactment date: 2/25/2022
• Enactment #: RES-22-00146
• Title: Authorizing the development of a neighborhood plan for the Hawthorne-Truax Area
• Sponsors: Lindsay Lemmer, Syed Abbas

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
2/22/2022	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt	Pass
2/7/2022	1	PLAN COMMISSION	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
2/3/2022	1	COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT COMMITTEE	Return to Lead with the Recommendation for Approval	Pass
2/1/2022	1	PLAN COMMISSION	Refer
2/1/2022	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
1/25/2022	1	Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note
The resolution authorizes the development of a neighborhood plan for the Hawthorne-Truax area. The Community Development Division’s 2022 Adopted Operating Budget includes up to $41,500 in Federal CDBG funds for staffing the planning process. Any City of Madison funding for projects identified in the updated Plan will be subject to future Common Council approval. No additional City appropriation is required with adoption of this resolution.
Title
Authorizing the development of a neighborhood plan for the Hawthorne-Truax Area
Body
WHEREAS the City of Madison's Comprehensive Plan (2018) provides general goals, objectives, policies and implementation recommendations and a Generalized Land Use map to guide the future growth and development of the City; and

WHEREAS the Comprehensive Plan recommends the preparation of sub-area plans for established neighborhoods to provide greater detail on specific land uses, development intensity, and building forms which establish the characteristics recommended within a given area, or to propose amendments to the Plan; and

WHEREAS the planning study area, depicted on the attached map, includes portions of Census Tracts 25.0, 26.01 and 26.02; and

WHEREAS these census tracts meet the following criteria for selection of a census tract for such CDBG supported plans: 1) at least 51% of the persons qualify as low and moderate income, 2) the area includes certain quality of life trends as reflected in the Neighborhood Indicators Project, 3) the most recent neighborhood plan, Carpenter-Ridgeway-Hawthorne-Sycamore- MacArthur-Truax Neighborhood Plan, was adopted in 2001; and

WHEREAS the Carpenter-Ridgeway-Hawthorne-Sycamore- MacArthur-Truax Neighborhood Plan provided policy makers with a framework for east side improvements for the last 20 years and the creation of a new plan for the area would provide an opportunity to review and update the existing neighborhood plan to reflect current conditions and align the subarea plan...