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 Cottage Grove Neighborhood Development Plan, a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, to include additional lands located east of Interstate Highway 39-90, between Buckeye Road and the Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way. 16th Ald. Dist.
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The Cottage Grove Neighborhood Development Plan, adopted by the Common Council on April 7, 1992, made detailed land use and development recommendations for a planning area generally bounded by Interstate Highway 39-90 on west, Cottage Grove Road on the north, the Door Creek open space corridor on the east, and Buckeye Road on the south. The Cottage Grove Neighborhood Plan encompassed the northern portion of Planning Area E4 identified in the 1990 Peripheral Area Development Plan as an Urban Expansion-A district generally as suitable for urban development and City of Madison expansion in the relatively near term. At the time that the Cottage Grove Neighborhood Development Plan was prepared, additional lands within Planning Area E4 located south of Buckeye Road were not included due to uncertainties regarding the future expansion plans of an active quarry operation in the area and the amount of open space that might either be undevelopable or recommended for permanent protection.
Since the neighborhood development plan was adopted, most of the lands within the Cottage Grove Neighborhood west of Sprecher Road have been annexed to the City of Madison and developed with urban uses, except the large Schoenstatt property south of Cottage Grove Road and several pre-existing residential plats that remain in the Town of Blooming Grove. Also since that time, the Buckeye Quarry has prepared a reclamation plan that describes the future extent of quarry operations; and Dane County has acquired several properties for pe...
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