Fiscal Note
The Draft City of Madison Comprehensive Plan includes an array of recommendations regarding the City's plans for growth and development over the next several years. This Resolution only recommends that the Plan be adopted and will have no direct budgetary impact, but adoption and implementation of the Plan and its many recommendations may have significant fiscal implications that would require further Common Council authorization.
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This Plan Commission Resolution recommends adoption of the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan, as required by Sec. 66.1001(4), Wis. Stats.
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WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 62.23(2) and (3), Wis. Stats., the City of Madison is authorized to prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan, as defined in Sec. 66.1001(2), Wis. Stats.; and
WHEREAS the City received a Comprehensive Planning Grant from the Wisconsin Department of Administration to assist in the preparation of its comprehensive plan; and
WHEREAS the Common Council adopted a Public Participation Strategy and Procedures which describes how the City intends to engage the public in the process of developing the comprehensive plan and includes written procedures to foster broad public participation in every stage of the preparation of the comprehensive plan, as required by Sec. 66.1001(4)(a), Wis. Stats., and consistent with the City's long tradition of active citizen participation in planning activities; and
WHEREAS the Madison Plan Commission was designated as the Policy Advisory Committee to guide the preparation of the comprehensive plan, with the stipulation that the Common Council is invited to participate in all meetings where the Plan Commission is acting in that capacity; and
WHEREAS, following several rounds of public participation events and special activities designed to explain the comprehensive planning process, identify key community planning issues and opportunities, define important planning goals and objectives, and evaluate alternative p...
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