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File #: 82916    Version: 1 Name: Responding to WisDOT’s I-39/90/94 Project Concurrence Point 2
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 4/9/2024 In control: Transportation Department
On agenda: 5/7/2024 Final action: 5/7/2024
Enactment date: 5/13/2024 Enactment #: RES-24-00321
Title: Responding to WisDOT’s I-39/90/94 Project Concurrence Point 2
Sponsors: Derek Field, Sabrina V. Madison, Jael Currie
Attachments: 1. [public] Comments Regarding Agenda item 4.pdf, 2. [public] Viets.pdf, 3. 2024-04-24 TC I-90-94.v2.pdf, 4. 050624_CC_public_comment.pdf, 5. File 82916 Reg Report.pdf
Fiscal Note
The City's cost-share of new cross-Interstate/USH 151 pedestrian/bicycle connections would be subject to WisDOT’s cost share policy and would involve future capital budgets.
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Responding to WisDOT’s I-39/90/94 Project Concurrence Point 2
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WHEREAS, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) is undertaking a study of Interstate 39/90/94 from the Beltline to US Highway 12/Wisconsin Highway 16 in Wisconsin Dells; and

WHEREAS, the study corridor includes a nearly 10 mile stretch of Interstate running through the City of Madison; and

WHEREAS, the City of Madison is the largest municipality within the fastest growing region in the State, with the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan projecting that the city will add 115,000 new residents between 2020 and 2050; and

WHEREAS, the Interstate corridor running through the City of Madison has either already urbanized or is expected to urbanize in the coming decades as the city continues to grow; and

WHEREAS, the City’s Comprehensive Plan, updated in December 2023, has goals, strategies, and actions that call for compact, interconnected growth, accompanied by an expansion and improvement of the city’s pedestrian and bicycle networks; and

WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan, Madison in Motion Transportation Plan, and more detailed area and neighborhood development plans along the Interstate and US Highway 151 corridor call for a series of crossings to reduce the substantial impediment to active transportation presented by the highways; and

WHEREAS, WisDOT has asked for Concurrence from Participating Agencies on Concurrence Point 2, Identification of the Recommended Preferred Alternative

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Madison:
1. Concurs with the recommendation at the I-94/WIS 30 interchange of the Full Modernization Alternative 2, with an emphasis on the importance of provide full pedestrian and bicycle accommodations with the reconstruction of the Milwaukee Street bridge o...

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