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File #: 90540    Version: 1 Name: Amend Campus Master Plan - Highland Ave
Type: Ordinance Status: Council New Business
File created: 10/21/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: 10/28/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Amending Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to amend the Campus-Institutional (CI) District Master Plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus for the portion of the campus generally addressed as 1111 Highland Avenue to include specific plans for University Hospital. (District 5)
Sponsors: Planning Division
Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
Title
Amending Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to amend the Campus-Institutional (CI) District Master Plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus for the portion of the campus generally addressed as 1111 Highland Avenue to include specific plans for University Hospital. (District 5)
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: In 2017, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received Common Council approval of a Campus-Institutional (CI) zoning district campus master plan to guide the future growth of most of the University campus. The approved master plan did not include expansion of the portion of University Hospital located in the City of Madison (approximately half the hospital complex is located in the Village of Shorewood Hills). The proposed amendment seeks to create a project to be known as “W-03” to allow construction of a three-story, 54,260 square-foot addition to University Hospital’s Wisconsin Institute for Medical Research (WIMR) wing. Per the materials, the addition will be located between Towers I and II of WIMR on the south side of Highland Avenue. The infill addition will include a wedge cyclotron. The proposed amendment will allow the portion of the cyclotron project located in the City of Madison to proceed; separate approvals by the Village of Shorewood Hills will be required for the portion of the project located west of the City limits.

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

WHEREAS Campus-Institutional (CI) District was established to recognize the City's major educational and medical institutions as important activity centers and traffic generators, accommodate the growth and development needs of these institutions, and coordinate the master plans of these institutions with the City's plans, policies and zoning standards, and

WHEREAS Section 28.097(2) of the Zonin...

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