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File #: 02124    Version: Name: calculating size of waterfront property
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 10/4/2005 In control: PLAN COMMISSION
On agenda: 11/29/2005 Final action: 11/29/2005
Enactment date: 12/20/2005 Enactment #: ORD-05-00191
Title: SUBSTITUTE - Amending Section 28.04(19)(b) of the Madison General Ordinances to add a ten year time period to calculating the size of an addition to waterfront property.
Sponsors: Brenda K. Konkel
Fiscal Note
No appropriation required.
Title
SUBSTITUTE - Amending Section 28.04(19)(b) of the Madison General Ordinances to add a ten year time period to calculating the size of an addition to waterfront property.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: The existing threshold for requiring a conditional use permit for additions to waterfront development is changed to calculate the threshold size of an addition or additions over a ten year period.

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

1. Subdivision (b) entitled "General Regulations" of Subsection (19) entitled "Waterfront Property" of Section 28.04 entitled "General Provisions" of the Madison General Ordinances is amended to read as follows:

"(b) General Regulations. The following regulations shall apply to all new development except a Civic Auditorium Complex. No building permit shall be issued for any new development of a waterfront or shoreland zoning lot without first obtaining a conditional use permit therefore. For purposes of this section, new development shall be a new principal building, an addition or additions to an existing principal building totaling in excess of five hundred (500) square feet of floor area during any ten (10) year period, to an existing principal building, or an accessory building. The conditional use permit shall be issued pursuant to the procedure set forth in Section 28.12(11) of this ordinance. In addition to the review standards set forth in Subdivision (g) therein all waterfront development shall be subject to the following standards.
1. For purposes of this section, the existing development pattern shall mean the average setback of the five (5) developed zoning lots to each side of the proposed development lot. For all zoning lots, the principal building setback shall be not less than the existing development pattern.
2. Upon the filing of an applicatio...

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