Fiscal Note
No additional City appropriation required.
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Implementing the South Phased Attachment Area in the Town of Blooming Grove Cooperative Plan by creating Section 15.01(620) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" attaching to the 16th Aldermanic District certain land located within the right of way of Interstate 39/90 at its interchange with US Highways 12/18, as well as certain properties located east of said interchange, hereinafter referred to as “Area C”; attaching to the 16th Aldermanic District certain town properties bounded by the Union Pacific Railroad right of way on the north, the township line with Cottage Grove on the east, Femrite Drive on the south, and Interstate 39/90 on the west, hereinafter referred to as “Area D”; amending Section 15.02(153) for the attached properties.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: On February 1, 2005, the Common Council adopted Resolution 05-00087 authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute an Intergovernmental Agreement between the City and the Town of Blooming Grove regarding boundary changes and other urban growth and municipal service delivery issues pursuant to an approved cooperative plan under Wis. Stat. Ch. 66.0307. The agreement was executed on February 18, 2005. The agreement and subsequent cooperative plan adopted by the Council on May 16, 2006 and approved by the State of Wisconsin established a process for the orderly transition of lands in the Town to the City between 2006 and the final attachment of the Town to the City on October 31, 2027, including two phased attachments of specific Town lands to the City before final attachment, the "North Phased Attachment Area" and "South Phased Attachment Area. The North Phased Attachment Area was accomplished by Ordinance 15-00065 (ID38625) on June 16, 2015, which took effect on December 28, 2015 and added 915.6 acres or 1.43 square miles to the City.
This ordinance includes the remainder of the South Phased Attachment Area. Overall, the South Phased Attachment Area includes 1,183.2 acres (1.85 square miles) of land located south of the Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific Railroad right of way and east of Interstate 39/90. The specific area to be attached with this ordinance includes 1,094.46 acres or 1.71 square miles and includes land located in the right of way of Interstate 39/90 at Femrite Drive and the US Highway 12 and 18 interchange as well as properties located south of the Union Pacific Railroad from the Interstate corridor to the eastern limits of the town. The specific lands comprising this portion of the South Phased Attachment Area are shown on the maps attached to the ordinance for reference.
The agreement and cooperative plan require that the South Phased Attachment Area be attached to the City by an ordinance passed on or before August 31, 2020. Once passed, the ordinances attaching the South Phased Attachment Areas to the City will be effective at 12:01 AM on December 28, 2020 in accordance with the terms of the agreement and plan.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
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