Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required with the adoption of this plan and amendment to the Comprehensive Plan.
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Adopting the Southwest Area Plan and the related Amendment to the Comprehensive Plan. (District 1, District 7, District 10, District 19, District 20)
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: This ordinance adopts the Southwest Area Plan and the related amendment to the Comprehensive Plan.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
WHEREAS, on August 2, 2022 the City of Madison Common Council authorized the Planning Division’s shift to a planning framework with twelve (12) Area Plans that cover the entire city and are updated every ten (10) years (RES-22-00577); and
WHEREAS, the planning framework indicates that the Generalized Future Land Use Map developed through each area plan process will directly update the Comprehensive Plan’s Generalized Future Land Use Map; and
WHEREAS, on October 8, 2024 the City of Madison Common Council authorized the Planning Division to prepare the Southwest Area Plan and adopted a public participation plan, as required by Wis. Stat. § 66.1001(4) to amend the Comprehensive Plan, which described how the City intended to make the process accessible to all (RES-24-00614); and
WHEREAS, consistent with RES-22-00577, archiving of previously adopted plans within the Southwest Area Plan boundary was considered as part of the development of the Southwest Area Plan and the adopted plans were reviewed to identify the recommendations from each adopted plan that should be incorporated into the Southwest Area Plan before being archived; and
WHEREAS, the public participation process included engagement through a project website, an interactive mapping exercise, virtual meetings, in-person meetings, emailed project updates to interested parties, distribution of informational materials, focus groups, neighborhood associati...
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