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File #: 83533    Version: 1 Name: Darwin Road Official Map Amendment
Type: Resolution Status: Council Public Hearing
File created: 5/20/2024 In control: BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
On agenda: 5/21/2024 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Amending the City of Madison Official Map to remove a mapped reservation for a future north-south public street located in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 8 North, Range 10 East in the City of Madison, on land generally addressed as 2202 Darwin Road (District 18).
Sponsors: Yannette Figueroa Cole, Derek Field, John W. Duncan, Amani Latimer Burris, Charles Myadze
Attachments: 1. Locator Maps.pdf, 2. Exhibit.pdf, 3. Planning Division Staff Report.pdf, 4. Link to Revised CSM File 83674
Fiscal Note
No City appropriation is required with the approval of this amendment to the Official Map for the City of Madison.

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Amending the City of Madison Official Map to remove a mapped reservation for a future north-south public street located in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 8 North, Range 10 East in the City of Madison, on land generally addressed as 2202 Darwin Road (District 18).

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The City of Madison has used an Official Map since August 1966 to reserve areas for planned new streets, highways, parks, parkways, and greenways in the existing and future City, as enabled by Wis. Stats. ss. 62.23(6)(c) and Section 16.25(6) of Madison General Ordinances. Where the City has mapped a reservation, building permits may generally not be issued to construct new buildings within the reserved area, and if land with a mapped reservation is divided by plat or Certified Survey Map, the subdivider is required to dedicate the reservations to the public.

Since at least 1972, the Official Map has included various mapped reservations in the Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Town 8 North, Range 10 East (Town of Burke). The reservations for these future streets were affirmed as part of the creation of an outlot for future development in 2008, which divided the parcel now addressed as 2202 Darwin Road from the larger Oak Park development to the north (3901 Packers Avenue).

In November 2022 the Common Council approved Resolution 22-00775 (ID 74140) to amend the Official Map to remove an east-west 60-foot wide reservation for future street purposes located in the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 30, Township 8 North, Range 10 East in the City of Madison, on land generally addressed as 2202-2320 Darwin Road. The Common Council adopted the Resolution with the condition that the 60-foot wide north-south street reservation be maintained. The Official Map was amended at the request of representatives ...

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