Fiscal Note
City costs associated with urban development in this area will be included in future operating and capital budgets subject to Common Council approval. Two other resolutions addressing the purchase of park and open space lands and the annexation of lands owned by Cherokee Park, Incorporated include fiscal notes that address the costs associated with the annexation and development of these properties, which are unique to this project and not covered by the City's standard infrastructure and capital cost recovery policies.
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Adopting the Cherokee Special Area Plan as a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, to include lands located west of the Dane County Regional Airport, north of portions of the Whitetail Ridge and Sherman Village subdivisions, east of Yahara River and south of the Cherokee Conservation Park and adjacent Cherokee Marshlands.
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The Cherokee Special Area Plan study area includes lands located west of the Dane County Regional Airport, north of portions of the Whitetail Ridge and Sherman Village subdivisions, east of the Yahara River and south of the Cherokee Conservation Park and adjacent Cherokee marshlands. The recommendations of the Cherokee Special Area Plan build upon the recommendations of the City of Madison's Comprehensive Plan and other plans. The City's Comprehensive Plan provides general recommendations for relatively large geographic areas. The Plan recommends residential, mixed-use, institutional, park and open space and other uses for lands within the Cherokee Special Area Plan study area. The Comprehensive Plan includes a provision that its recommendations be supplemented by more detailed recommendations included in special area plans, detailed neighborhood development plans, and neighborhood development plans. The Cherokee Special Area Plan provides detailed recommendations for lands located within its study area.
The Cherokee Special Area Plan recommends a land use pattern, a transportation network to serve the pattern, a development staging and utility plan, and steps needed to implement the recommendations of the Plan. Further, the Plan strives to create a land use pattern and transportation network that that carefully considers existing natural features and development in the study area. The Plan's recommendations are intended to be somewhat flexible. For example, it is not expected that every residential development will necessarily correspond exactly to the recommended dwelling unit type and density range indicated in the Plan, but rather that the general pattern and distribution of densities and dwelling unit types will be consistent with the intent of the Plan's recommendations.
Much of the undeveloped land in the Cherokee Special Area Plan study area is currently open space and is recommended to remain in this use. Protection of natural resource features associated with Cherokee Marsh is of utmost importance. Various mechanisms, including public acquisition of open space lands, conservation easements, state of the art stormwater management facilities, and provision of buffer areas between open space and development are recommended to help protect Cherokee Marsh from the impacts of new development.
The Plan recommends a variety of residential densities and dwelling unit types throughout the study area. In addition, a small neighborhood mixed-use area that could include retail, office, service, and residential uses is recommended along the north side of Wheeler Road and CTH CV. The Plan recommends some additional development around the existing Cherokee Country Club clubhouse.
The proposed transportation pattern includes a network of street, bicycle and pedestrian facilities. The proposed street patterns are intended to create an interconnected, multi-modal (i.e. a transportation system that includes more than one means of travel) transportation system that conveniently links the various parts of the study area. The street patterns, and land uses along those streets, are intended to create a sense of place through the use of neighborhood development and design principles. Street layouts should be designed so that they frame and terminate attractive views.
WHEREAS lands located west of the Dane County Regional Airport, north of the Whitetail Ridge and Sherman Village subdivisions, east of the Yahara River and south of the Cherokee Conservation Park and adjacent Cherokee marshlands are identified in the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, various other plans and a City-adopted preliminary plat as areas for development and permanently protected open space; and
WHEREAS interest has been expressed to develop lands within parts of the Cherokee Park Special Area Plan study area as described above; and
WHEREAS the City of Madison's Comprehensive Plan includes a provision that a special area plan or other detailed plan be adopted by the City prior to the City approving development in areas lacking such a plan; and
WHEREAS the City has not adopted a special area plan for the Cherokee Special Area Plan study area; and
WHEREAS several neighborhood meetings have been held by Cherokee Park. Incorporated and the City of Madison to receive input on recommendations in the special area plan; and
WHEREAS the Plan Commission has reviewed the draft plan maps in June 2006 and again in September 2006; and
WHEREAS the City of Madison has prepared the Cherokee Special Area Plan for lands located west of the Dane County Regional Airport, north of the Whitetail Ridge and Sherman Village subdivisions, east of the Yahara River and south of the Cherokee Conservation Park and adjacent Cherokee marshlands; and
WHEREAS the recommendations of the Cherokee Special Area Plan are consistent with the broad recommendations for the study area contained in the adopted City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Cherokee Special Area Plan is adopted as a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, and provides land use and other recommendations for lands within the Special Area Plan's study area, as illustrated on the attached maps and described in the attached narrative.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of Madison Plan Commission and Madison Common Council hereby authorize the City's application to amend the Dane County Water Quality Plan to include in the Central Urban Service Area the lands within the Cherokee Special Area Plan study area that are identified in the plan as the "Hornung Range."