Fiscal Note
In accordance with State Statutes, the City will make annual revenue sharing payments to the Town of Westport for a five year period beginning in 2009. The required payments will be equal to the town levy on the annexed territory for the year 2007. The applicable payment is estimated to be $57 per year and will be accommodated in the General Fund Miscellaneous Appropriations section of future year budgets.
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Creating Section 15.01(563) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" annexing to the 18th Aldermanic District the Cherokee Annexation and assigning a temporary zoning classification of A Agriculture District, creating Sections 15.02(143) and (144) of the Madison General Ordinances to assign the attached property to Wards 143 and 144, and amending Section 15.03(18) of the Madison General Ordinances to add Wards 143 and 144 to Aldermanic District 18.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance annexes land in the Town of Westport.
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An ordinance to create Subsection (563) of Section 15.01 of the General Ordinances of the City of Madison entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards".
WHEREAS, a petition with scale map attached was filed with the City Clerk of Madison on May 10, 2007, and mailed to the Clerk of the Town of Westport and the Municipal Boundary Review Section, Department of Commerce, State of Wisconsin, and has been presented to the City Common Council requesting annexation of the below-described territory to the City of Madison from the Town of Westport; said petition having been signed by the owners of all the real property within the territory, which lies contiguous to the City of Madison and has no residents; and
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Special Area Plan recommends medium density reside...
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