Fiscal Note
There is no fiscal impact associated with the adoption of the plan. However, implementing specific recommendations within the plan will have fiscal impacts in the future and will require Common Council approval at that time.
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Adopting the Midvale-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan and recommendations contained therein as a supplement to the City's adopted Comprehensive Plan. Ald. Districts 11 & 20.
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WHEREAS the City of Madison's Comprehensive Plan adopted January 17, 2006 (Substitute Ordinance No. 02207) recommends the adoption of neighborhood plans for established residential neighborhoods within the City; and
WHEREAS the Midvale Heights and Westmorland Neighborhoods applied and received a $40,000 grant from the City's Neighborhood Planning Grant Program in 2007 to prepare a joint mid-range (5-10 years) neighborhood plan for the area bounded by Mineral Point Road on the north; West Beltline Highway on the south, South Whitney Way on the west, and Southwest Bike Path and Glenway Golf Course on the east (see Attachment A); and
WHEREAS the Midvale Heights and Westmorland Neighborhoods formed a Joint Steering Committee (MWJSC) to guide the preparation of the plan with planning assistance from Vierbicher Associates and oversight from the Planning Division; and
WHEREAS the MWJSC met 25 times between December 2007-June 2009 in the preparation of the plan and oversaw a public participation process that included three large-scale public workshops, eight stakeholder interviewers, and four focus groups with new property owners, young families, the business community, and senior citizens; and
WHEREAS the MWJSC met an appointed city staff team three times during the process to discuss neighborhood issues, strategies and plan recommendations; and
WHEREAS the Midvale Heights-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan identifies eleven overall priorities (see Attachment B) as well as prioritizes plan recommendation by specific planning issue (land use, transportation, housing, economic development, parks and open space, cultural and historic resources, and community facilities).
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Midvale Heights-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan and the goals, recommendations and implementation steps contained therein is herby adopted as a supplement to the City's Comprehensive Plan; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the changes to the Comprehensive Plan's Generalized Future Land Use Plan Map recommended in the Midvale Heights-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan be considered for adoption during the next annual Comprehensive Plan evaluation and amendment process; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Planning Division will prepare a status report on the implementation of the neighborhood plan recommendations annually. .
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the appropriate City agencies be requested to consider including the recommendations of the Midvale Heights-Westmorland Neighborhood Plan in future work plans and budgets.