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File #: 90310    Version: 1 Name: Declaration of Right of Way - Driscoll Dr
Type: Resolution Status: Council New Business
File created: 10/7/2025 In control: COMMON COUNCIL
On agenda: 10/28/2025 Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: Authorizing the execution of a Declaration of Public Right of Way for an extension of Driscoll Drive through a portion of City-owned land generally addressed as 135 Rustic Drive. (District 3)
Sponsors: Derek Field
Attachments: 1. Exhibit A.pdf, 2. Proposed CSM (102 S Sprecher Rd).pdf
Fiscal Note
No City appropriation required.

Title
Authorizing the execution of a Declaration of Public Right of Way for an extension of Driscoll Drive through a portion of City-owned land generally addressed as 135 Rustic Drive. (District 3)

Body
WHEREAS, Driscoll Drive is an existing platted local street located a half-block south of Milwaukee Street that extends from Milky Way on the west to the western line of a parcel addressed as 135 Rustic Drive owned by the City of Madison Stormwater Utility; and

WHEREAS, the City of Madison is the owner of parcel addressed as 135 Rustic Drive, which was acquired for and is operated by the City Engineering Division as a greenway for stormwater management and conveyance purposes; and

WHEREAS, the Sprecher Neighborhood Development Plan ("Plan") was adopted by the Common Council in January 1998 to guide the development of the existing and future City of Madison bounded by Interstate 39/ 90 on the west, Cottage Grove Road on the south, Interstate 94 on the north, and Door Creek on the east; and

WHEREAS the Plan calls for an east-west local street now known as Driscoll Drive to intersect a local street planned to extend northwesterly from S Sprecher Road to Milwaukee Street to provide access to future residential development to be located between S Sprecher Road and the stormwater greenway; and

WHEREAS on January 28, 2025, the Common Council adopted Resolution 25-00071 (ID 86422) to approve a Certified Survey Map by Sprecher Apartments, LLC to divide a five-acre parcel addressed as 102 S Sprecher Road into one lot for the development of a five-story, 170-unit multi-family dwelling and one outlot to be dedicated to the City for stormwater management, said CSM dedicating a portion of the planned north-south street recommended in the Plan to be known as 'Ethos Lane'; and

WHEREAS, in order to construct the remaining section of Driscoll Drive to intersect proposed Ethos Lane consistent with the street network recommended b...

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