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File #: 01359    Version: Name: Establish Research and Development Center (RDC) District
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 5/31/2005 In control: PLAN COMMISSION
On agenda: 11/8/2005 Final action: 11/8/2005
Enactment date: 11/25/2005 Enactment #: ORD-05-00180
Title: AMENDED SUBSTITUTE - Creating Section 28.10(6) of the Madison General Ordinances to establish a Research and Development Center District.
Sponsors: Lauren Cnare
Attachments: 1. 01359 registration.pdf, 2. Text Amendment Memo.pdf, 3. July 5 Letter.pdf, 4. July 14 Memo.pdf, 5. 01359 notice of public hearing.pdf, 6. 01359 amendment.pdf
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11/10/20053 Attorney's Office/Approval Group Approved As To Form  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/8/20053 COMMON COUNCIL Adopt and Close the Public HearingPass Action details Meeting details Not available
11/3/20052 Attorney's Office/Approval Group Approved As To Form  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/3/20052 Attorney's Office Fiscal Note Required / Approval  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/3/20052 Finance Dept/Approval Group Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office  Action details Meeting details Not available
11/3/20052 Attorney's Office/Approval Group Substitute Created  Action details Meeting details Not available
10/11/20051 COMMON COUNCIL Re-refer for Recessed Public HearingPass Action details Meeting details Not available
10/10/20051 PLAN COMMISSION RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT - RECESSED PUBLIC HEARINGPass Action details Meeting details Not available
9/19/20051 PLAN COMMISSION RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO RE-REFER - RECESSED PUBLIC HEARINGPass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/2/20051 COMMON COUNCIL Re-refer for Recessed Public HearingPass Action details Meeting details Not available
8/1/20051 PLAN COMMISSION ReferPass Action details Meeting details Not available
7/18/20051 PLAN COMMISSION RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO RE-REFER - PUBLIC HEARINGPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/20/20051 PLAN COMMISSION Re-referPass Action details Meeting details Not available
6/15/20051 Finance Dept/Approval Group Approved Fiscal Note By The Comptroller's Office  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/7/20051 COMMON COUNCIL Refer For Public Hearing  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/7/20051 COMMON COUNCIL Fiscal Note Required / Approval  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/1/20051 Finance Dept/Approval Group Fiscal Note Pending  Action details Meeting details Not available
6/1/20051 Attorney's Office Referred for Introduction  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/31/20051 Attorney's Office/Approval Group Approved As To Form  Action details Meeting details Not available
5/31/20051 Attorney's Office Fiscal Note Required / Approval  Action details Meeting details Not available
Fiscal Note
No appropriation is required to establish the new zoning district.
Title
AMENDED SUBSTITUTE - Creating Section 28.10(6) of the Madison General Ordinances to establish a Research and Development Center District.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance creates a new zoning district, based on the concept of a research park but with a more urbanized character.

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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:

Subsection (6) entitled "RDC Research and Development Center District" of Section 28.10 entitled "Manufacturing Districts" of the Madison General Ordinances is created to read as follows:

"(6) RDC Research and Development Center District.
(a) Statement of Purpose. The Research and Development Center District (RDC) is established to provide an aesthetically attractive urban working environment intended primarily for high-technology, research and development, testing, and certain specialized manufacturing establishments, in addition to professional offices and business incubators, all of a non-nuisance type. The purpose of the district is to provide a setting to promote and maintain desirable economic development activities in an urban employment setting that emphasizes buildings that are oriented toward the streets with parking on the street to the side and behind the buildings. The district requires advance planning for individual sites to maximize on-site building expansion at the time of site plan approval to accommodate additional development on the site and structured parking at strategic locations. The district is intended to be mapped for areas generally over 50 acres in size and, as such, requires careful advanced transportation planning including the preparation of transportation demand management plans for the district and individual lots, as well as the establishment of a transportation management association for the d...

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