Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
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Authorizing the execution of a Declaration of Public Right of Way for an extension of Driscoll Drive through a portion of City-owned land generally addressed as 135 Rustic Drive. (District 3)
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WHEREAS, Driscoll Drive is an existing platted local street located a half-block south of Milwaukee Street that extends from Milky Way on the west to the western line of a parcel addressed as 135 Rustic Drive owned by the City of Madison Stormwater Utility; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison is the owner of parcel addressed as 135 Rustic Drive, which was acquired for and is operated by the City Engineering Division as a greenway for stormwater management and conveyance purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan ("Plan") was adopted by the Common Council in January 1998 to guide the development of the existing and future City of Madison bounded by Interstate 39/ 90 on the west, Cottage Grove Road on the south, Interstate 94 on the north, and Door Creek on the east; and
WHEREAS the Plan calls for an east-west local street now known as Driscoll Drive to intersect a local street planned to extend northwesterly from S Sprecher Road to Milwaukee Street to provide access to future residential development to be located between S Sprecher Road and the stormwater greenway; and
WHEREAS on January 28, 2025, the Common Council adopted Resolution 25-00071 (ID 86422) to approve a Certified Survey Map by Sprecher Apartments, LLC to divide a five-acre parcel addressed as 102 S Sprecher Road into one lot for the development of a five-story, 170-unit multi-family dwelling and one outlot to be dedicated to the City for stormwater management, said CSM dedicating a portion of the planned north-south street recommended in the Plan to be known as 'Ethos Lane'; and
WHEREAS, in order to construct the remaining section of Driscoll Drive to intersect proposed Ethos Lane consistent with the street network recommended by the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan, the City has agreed to dedicate a portion of said City stormwater parcel for public right of way purposes; and
WHEREAS, City Engineering Division staff has reviewed and recommend that said Declaration of Public Right of Way be executed and recorded;
NOW, BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that the Mayor and the City Clerk are hereby authorized to execute a Declaration of Public Right of Way for land described as follows and as shown on the attached Exhibit A, to be known as 'Driscoll Drive':
A parcel of land located in the NE 1/4 of the SE 1/4 of Section 2, Town 7 North, Range 10 East, City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at the East 1/4 corner of said Section 2; thence S87°43’26”W along the North line of the SE 1/4 of Section 2, 466.74 feet; thence S00°03’35”E, 133.82 feet along a line parallel to the westerly line of Ethos Lane right of way to the Point of Beginning; thence along said right of way S00°03’35”E, 90.07 feet; thence Northwesterly, 24.14 feet along the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 15.00 feet and whose chord bears N46°10’14.5”W, 21.62 feet; thence S87°43’06”W, 34.54 feet to the easterly end of the Driscoll Drive right of way; thence N00°04’13”W along said existing end of right of way, 60.04 feet; thence N87°43’06”E, 35.71 feet; thence Northeasterly, 22.98 feet along the arc of a curve to the left whose radius is 15.00 feet and whose chord bears N43°49’45.5’E, 20.80 feet to the Point of Beginning. Said described area contains 3,105 square feet.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Office of Real Estate Services, Planning Division, and City Engineering Division are authorized to prepare the necessary document(s), obtain the necessary signatures, and record the Declaration of Right of Way with the Dane County Register of Deeds.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the dedicated right of way be shown on the Official Map and on adopted plans accordingly.