Fiscal Note
Local costs associated with urban development in this area will be included in future operating and capital budgets.
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Amending the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan, an element of the City of Madison Master Plan, to revise the recommendations for the Rustic Acres subdivision area located south of Milwaukee Street and west of Sprecher Road. 3rd Ald. Dist.
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WHEREAS the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan, an element of the City of Madison Master Plan, was adopted by the Madison City Plan Commission on January 12, 1998, and by the Madison Common Council on January 20, 1998; and
WHEREAS the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan included only a general land use recommendation of Low-Density Residential for the existing Rustic Acres rural subdivision located south of Milwaukee Street and west of Sprecher Road, due to the existing very large oddly-configured lots, an internal street system poorly designed to support more-intensive development, and lack of current property owner development interest; and
WHEREAS the neighborhood development plan included the goal of supporting an increase in residential densities within the Rustic Acres subdivision, and recognized that as owners eventually wanted to subdivide their parcels to permit additional development, additional planning would be needed to design a more complete and interconnected street and determine the appropriate amount of new development; and
WHEREAS the recently approved intergovernmental agreement between the City of Madison and the Town of Blooming Grove provides that future development within the majority of the Rustic Acres subdivision area will be limited to low-density single-family housing, but that future development densities along the Milwaukee Street and Sprecher Road frontages will be guided by the recommendations of the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan as it may be amended by the City from time to time; and
WHEREAS Planning Unit and other City of Madison staff have been working with the owners of two recently-annexed properties located just south of Milwaukee Street to prepare a development concept that would provide additional access and allow those properties to be developed at more appropriate urban densities; and
WHEREAS in association with this effort, Planning Unit staff have also prepared an amendment to the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan for the entire Rustic Acres subdivision area that recommends additional local street connections and revises the land use recommendations to include a limited amount of low-medium and medium density residential uses closest to Milwaukee Street and Sprecher Road and low density residential uses at other locations; and
WHEREAS City agencies have reviewed the proposed plan amendment and have concluded that it meets City standards and is consistent with the goals of the neighborhood development plan; and
WHEREAS information regarding the proposed Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan amendment has been provided to the Town of Blooming Grove, and to surrounding property owners and residents; and
WHEREAS the Madison Plan Commission has held a public hearing on the proposed amendment and recommends approval.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan is hereby amended to incorporate revised recommendations for the Rustic Acres subdivision area located south of Milwaukee Street and west of Sprecher Road, as presented in the attached map and narrative.