Fiscal Note
The Adopted 2009 Capital Budget for the Planning, Community and Economic Development Department authorizes expenditures of up to $3,000,000 (Project No. 14, "TID 38 - Badger/Ann/Park St.", Account No. 823801) for this project. No additional appropriation is required.
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Authorizing Common Council to accept and adopt the Burr Oaks Neighborhood Senior Housing Plan.
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In the autumn of 1999, the City of Madison Common Council recommended the South Madison neighborhood as its next neighborhood planning area. Following this, in 2000, the South Metropolitan Planning Council undertook a visioning process to identify unrecognized potential for the entire length of Park Street. This effort produced a document called Park Street: Possibilities to Reality. This effort led to a multi-year effort to continue the revitalization of the South Madison neighborhood area. Multiple planning projects and documents have been undertaken including: Park Street Revitalization: Opportunities to Reality Report, Park Street Urban Design Guidelines, Badger-Ann-Park Redevelopment District Plan, Penn Park Master Plan, Wingra Creek BUILD Grant, Wingra Creek Parkway Master Plan, Achieving the Vision: Implementation Strategies to Achieve Redevelopment Within the Greater South Madison Area, and South Madison Neighborhood Plan.
Both of the most recent planning documents, Achieving the Vision: Implementation Strategies to Achieve Redevelopment Within the Greater South Madison Area and the South Madison Neighborhood Plan make specific references to expanding the housing options for seniors within the South Park Street area. The South Madison Neighborhood Plan, adopted in January 2005, cites as Goal 5.6 "Ensure the availability of quality, senior housing within or adjacent to the neighborhood." In Achieving the Vision: Implementation Strategies to Achieve Redevelopment Within the Greater South Madison Area, the area bounded by Hughes Place, Cypress Way, and Badger Road (the "Project Site") shown on Map 1, is identified for a redevelopment project. One of the strategies identified in this planning document is to "Improve the green space, living environment and bedroom mix to accommodate a more diverse population of families with children and older persons than for that population for which the buildings are designed."
On March 8, 2007, the Community Development Authority of the City of Madison (CDA) adopted Resolution No. 2749 approving the Badger Ann Park Redevelopment District that includes the area bounded by Badger Road, Hughes Place and Cypress Way. The Badger Ann Park Redevelopment District was adopted by the City of Madison Common Council on May 1, 2007. The creation of the Badger Ann Park Redevelopment District provides the CDA with the authority, under Sec. 66.1333 of the Wisconsin Statutes (the "Redevelopment Act") to promote revitalization efforts throughout the Badger Ann Park Redevelopment District.
In 2007, Virchow Krause conducted a preliminary evaluation of the senior rental housing market on the Southside of Madison. This initial market study showed that this area could support an "initial phase of 48 mixed-income units at the preliminary site (bounded by Badger Road, Hughes Place, and Cypress Way), with an additional 48-unit phase II upon completion and substantial lease-up of phase I."
To implement this vision of increasing housing options for seniors, the Burr Oaks Oaks Senior Housing Alder Steering Workgroup (the "Workgroup") was convened in June 2009. Working off of the document Achieving the Vision: Implementation Strategies to Achieve Redevelopment Within the Greater South Madison Area, the Workgroup determined that the Project Site would be a potential location for a senior housing facility.
In the City of Madison's 2009 Capital Budget for the Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development, Project No. 14 identifies $3,000,000 for the "acquisition, demolition and relocation costs associated with land assemblage." The general goal identified in Project No. 14 is "the elimination of blight and the stimulation of commercial and residential development." The $3,000,000 will be provided to the CDA for the purposes of acquisition, demolition and relocation costs associated with land assemblage.
Prior to the purchase or demolition of properties for this project, the Burr Oaks Neighborhood Senior Housing Plan was completed. The development of this plan included three public meetings, as noted in the attached plan document.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Common Council determines that the Burr Oaks Neighborhood Senior Housing Plan, prepared for the block bounded by Park Street, Badger Road, Cypress Way and Hughes Street, is consistent with the South Madison Revitalization Strategies Report, and;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Common Council does hereby approve the Burr Oaks Neighborhood Senior Housing Plan (attached), and;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Office of Real Estate Services is authorized to acquire those properties identified in the Burr Oaks Neighborhood Senior Housing Plan, relocate residents if necessary, and demolish structures to assemble land for a neighborhood senior housing project.