Fiscal Note
Local costs associated with urban development in this area will be included in future operating and capital budgets subject to Common Council approval.
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Amending the Blackhawk Neighborhood Development Plan, a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, to include additional lands located generally west of the current neighborhood boundary, between Blackhawk Road and Old Sauk Road.
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PREAMBLE
The Blackhawk Neighborhood Development Plan adopted by the Common Council on March 1, 1994, made detailed land use and development recommendations for a planning area located between Blackhawk Road and Old Sauk Road and extending west from Pleasant View Road approximately 1.3 miles. This planning area was added to the Central Urban Service Area through two amendments approved in 1994 and 2002. In September 2003, the City of Madison and the Town of Middleton entered a Cooperative Boundary Plan which includes a schedule and procedures for the eventual attachment of those portions of the township located east of a defined Boundary Line to the City of Madison and establishes the City of Madison's adopted plans as the land use recommendations for the future development of the area located east of the Boundary Line. The Cooperative Boundary Plan also provides that an identified portion of lands owned by the Town of Middleton located west of, and adjacent to, the Boundary Line in the SE ΒΌ of Section 17 in the Town of Middleton may be developed only after it is annexed to the City; and further provides that in the event that the Town sells or conveys a portion of the identified developable area to another party, the Boundary Line shall be moved to the westerly boundary of the land so conveyed.
Presently, the Middleton-Cross Plains School District is planning to purchase a portion of this identified developable area from the Town of Middleton for future development as a school site. Madison's adopted Blackhawk Neighborhood Development Plan currently does not include the lands that would be annexed to the City of Madison following purchase by the Middleton-Cross Plains School District. This amendment to the neighborhood development plan is proposed to include the area and show school facilities as a recommended land use on the property to be acquired by the School District. The proposed plan amendment also makes land use recommendations for certain adjacent lands, including the eastern edges of the large property to the west that will be retained by the Town of Middleton for park and open space uses.
WHEREAS certain lands located west of the current Blackhawk Neighborhood boundary will be purchased from the Town of Middleton by the Middleton-Cross Plains School District for a future public school site; and
WHEREAS the lands to be purchased by the School District will be attached to the City of Madison prior to their development so that they may be served with the full range of urban services as provided by the City of Madison-Town of Middleton Cooperative Boundary Plan; and
WHEREAS the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan requires that urban development and extension of urban services in the Madison peripheral area must be preceded by the adoption of a detailed neighborhood plan that includes the proposed development area; and
WHEREAS the institutional, residential and open space land uses recommended in the proposed amendment to the Blackhawk Neighborhood Development Plan are consistent with the recommendations for the amendment area contained in the adopted City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Blackhawk Neighborhood Development Plan, a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, is hereby amended to include additional lands located generally west of the current neighborhood boundary between Blackhawk Road and Old Sauk Road, and provide land use and street plan recommendations for these lands, as illustrated on the attached map; and
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 these lands within the Central Urban Service Area.