Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.
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Implementing the Final Attachment Area of the Town of Madison by creating Section 15.01(639) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" attaching to the 13th Alder District land generally bounded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum and Fish Hatchery Road, hereinafter referred to as “Area 7”; creating Section 15.02(147) of the Madison General Ordinances to create Ward 147; and amending Section 15.03(13) to add Ward 147 to the 13th Alder District.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: On November 5, 2002, the Common Council adopted Resolution 59879 (ID 32734) authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk to execute an intergovernmental agreement among the City of Madison, Town of Madison, and City of Fitchburg regarding boundary changes and other urban growth and municipal service delivery issues pursuant to an approved cooperative plan under Wis. Stats. Ch. 66.0307. The agreement was executed on November 8, 2002. The subsequent cooperative plan was adopted by the Common Council on April 8, 2003 by Resolution 60411 (ID 33561) and was approved by the State of Wisconsin on October 10, 2003. The final cooperative plan established the final attachment of the Town of Madison to the cities of Madison and Fitchburg at 11:59 p.m. on October 30, 2022.
The final attachments of the portions of the Town of Madison accruing to the City of Madison will be adopted as a series of ordinances corresponding to discrete areas of the Town. This ordinance encompasses the area of the Town hereinafter referred to as “Area 7” that is located west of Fish Hatchery Road, which is otherwise surrounded by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. The portion of Area 7 located west of Fish Hatchery Road will be attached to the 13th Ald. Dist. and will be located in newly created Ward 147.
The zoning of this attachment area will be addressed in a subsequ...
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