Fiscal Note
No additional City appropriation is required with the adoption of the proposed Triangle Monona Bay Neighborhood Plan. Implementing recommendations within the Plan will require the inclusion of expenditures in future capital and operating budgets, subject to Common Council approval at that time.
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Adopting the Triangle Monona Bay Neighborhood Plan as a Supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan and dissolving the Triangle and Monona Bay Ad-Hoc Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee.
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WHEREAS, the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, adopted August 7, 2018, recommends the adoption of neighborhood plans for established residential neighborhoods within the City; and
WHEREAS, the Community Development Authority plans to redevelop and rehab its housing on the Triangle in the next 5 years and other area property owners plan to make significant changes to their properties in the next 10 years; and
WHEREAS, the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Committee designated the Triangle and Monona Bay Planning Study Area (Census Tract 12.0, Block Group 1 - see Attachment 1) as a CDBG Concentration Neighborhood for the purposes of providing planning assistance; and
WHEREAS, the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development utilized the City’s Racial Equity and Social Justice tool to develop the Triangle and Monona Bay (TMB) Neighborhood planning process and to define membership positions for the Triangle and Monona Bay Ad Hoc Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee (Steering Committee); and
WHEREAS, the Steering Committee, which the Mayor appointed and the Common Council confirmed, guided the planning process and met 16 times from February 2018 to April 2019 to review and discuss background data, issues, opportunities, public and stakeholder input, and draft recommendations of the TMB Plan; and
WHEREAS, representatives from the City of Madison Steering Committee, Monona Bay Neighborhood Association, Community Development Authority, and Bayview Foundation, Inc. solicited community ideas and input through stakeholder interviews and focus group discussions, surveys, individual conversations, three public open house events and neighborhood association and other community meetings; and
WHEREAS, the TMB Plan describes the desired future of the planning study area and provides recommendations to guide land use and urban design, including recommended changes to the City’s Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Map (see Attachment 2); and
WHEREAS, the TMB Plan also provides recommendations to enhance transportation, improve community health and wellness, expand community programming and services, upgrade parks and open spaces, increase housing diversity with a range of affordability options, improve housing quality, preserve existing housing scale and character in low residential areas, incorporate age friendly and specialized design for people with disabilities.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Common Council does hereby adopt the Triangle Monona Bay Neighborhood Plan and the recommendations and implementation steps contained therein as a supplement to the City’s Comprehensive Plan.
BE IT FUTHER RESOLVED that the appropriate City agencies consider including the recommendations of the Triangle Monona Bay Neighborhood Plan in future work plans and budgets.
BE IT STILL FURTHER RESOLVED that upon adoption of the Triangle Monona Bay Neighborhood Plan, the Mayor and Common Council do hereby dissolve the Triangle and Monona Bay Ad-Hoc Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development shall monitor the implementation status of recommendations included in the Plan and shall work to update the Plan within 10-15 years.