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Amending Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to amend the Campus-Institutional (CI) District Master Plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus for the portion of the campus generally addressed as 232 N Park Street and 915-935 W Johnson Street, 8th Alder District, to include specific plans for the proposed Levy Hall Academic Building. (District 8)
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: In 2017, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received Common Council approval of a Campus-Institutional (CI) zoning district campus master plan to guide the future growth of most of the University campus. The approved master plan did not include specific plans for the University-owned land located at the southwestern corner of N Park and W Johnson Streets following the demolition of Zoe Bayliss Co-op and Davis Residence Hall. The University is seeking approval of an amendment to the campus master plan to include specific plans for the “Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall” academic building, which will be located along the W Johnson Street frontage. The academic building is proposed as a six-story, approximately 150,000 square-foot facility for the College of Letters and Science.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
WHEREAS Campus-Institutional (CI) District was established to recognize the City's major educational and medical institutions as important activity centers and traffic generators, accommodate the growth and development needs of these institutions, and coordinate the master plans of these institutions with the City's plans, policies and zoning standards, and
WHEREAS Section 28.097(2) of the Zoning Code requires that any Campus Institutional District created after January 2, 2013 submit a Campus Master Plan, which shall be approved as part of a map amendment, and in the absence of said Plan, individual development proposals and changes that exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area within any five-year period shall require conditional use approval, and
WHEREAS University of Wisconsin-Madison submitted a Campus Master Plan to provide a regulatory framework for most of the University’s approximately 936-acre campus; and
WHEREAS the Common Council adopted Second Substitute Ordinance 17-00074 (ID 47245) on July 18, 2017 creating Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to adopt the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus-Institutional District Master Plan as an integral part of the Zoning Code following a recommendation by the Plan Commission on June 19, 2017, said approved master plan to expire on January 1, 2029 consistent with MGO Section 28.097(2)(b), and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan provides general information on the University’s plans to demolition and improve the many “neighborhoods” that comprise the campus, including the general placement, anticipated programming, and bulk of new buildings to be constructed within the effective period of the plan; and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan includes the demolition of Zoe Bayliss Co-op and Davis Residence Hall; and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan did not include specific details regarding the University-owned land extending between W Johnson Street and Clymer Place west of N Park Street following the demolition of the Bayliss Co-op and Davis buildings; and
WHEREAS the University is seeking approval of an amendment to the campus master plan to include specific plans for the southwestern corner of W Johnson and N Park Streets to allow construction of “Irving and Dorothy Levy Hall,” a six-story, approximately 150,000 square-foot academic building for the College of Letters and Science; and
WHEREAS MGO Section 28.097(10) stipulates that no alteration of an approved Campus Master Plan shall be permitted unless approved by the Plan Commission; if the change or addition to the Campus Master Plan constitutes a substantial alteration of the original plan, a major alteration approved by the Common Council is required;
NOW BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of Madison as follows:
Map Amendment 00289 of Section 28.022 of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby amended for the following described portion of the campus to adopt the plans for “Levy Hall Academic Building” as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus-Institutional District Master Plan as shown on the plans attached to this ordinance file:
“The Northern 42.5 feet of Lot 1, all of Lots 2-4, and the Western 24 feet, more or less of Lot 5, Block 16, University Addition to the City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin. Said described amendment area contains 1.08 acres (47,252 square feet), more or less.”