Fiscal Note
Funding for the 2012 Neighborhood Grants Program ($80,000) was allocated in the Planning Division's 2012 Operating Budget. Funding this specific project ($37,340) through the Neighborhood Grants Program was approved by the Common Council on May 1, 2012 (File ID 25850, Enactment # Res-12-00294). The planning project start date was delayed in 2012, which resulted in the Common Council appropriation of $37,340 from the Contingent Reserve to complete the project in 2013 (File No. 28703, Enactment No. RES-13-00052, adopted 01-22-2013).
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SUBSTITUTE Amending Substitute Resolution RES-12-00560, File No. 26897 adopted on 07-24-2012 to establish an Ad Hoc Steering Committee appointed by the Mayor, and confirmed by the Common Council, alter composition and number of members, appoint members to serve on the Ad Hoc steering committee, modify planning study boundaries, and clarify work project of the professional consultant.
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On May 1, 2012, the Common Council adopted Enactment No. Res-12-00294, File ID 25850 (the "2012 Resolution") that authorized the establishment of the University Hill Farms Steering Committee and authorized staff to contract with a consultant to assist in the preparation of a mid-range neighborhood plan. This resolution will authorize Mayoral appointment, confirmed by the Common Council, of an Ad Hoc Steering Committee, modify planning study boundaries, alter composition and number of members serving on appointed Ad Hoc steering committee, and clarify work project of the professional consultant.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that Enactment No. Res-12-00294 is amended:
1. To include that the planning study area boundaries shall be modified to include the area roughly bounded by University Avenue on the north, Midvale Blvd on the east, Mineral Point Road on the south, and S. Rosa Road and N. Whitney Way on the west with exception that the planning process will not include the Hill Farms State of Wisconsin property used or reused by the State for which a Hill Farms Redevelopment General Development Plan was completed in 2007 followed by Common Council approval of a related PUD (Legistar ID 06988) which has now expired (see Map 1);
2. To direct City staff to work with the State of Wisconsin on any future plans for the Hill Farms property and state-owned property north of University Avenue and will seek neighborhood comments through the appropriate public processes; particularly state-owned lands sold for non-state owned purposes;
3. To provide that the planning process shall not cause delays in the approval process for any projects proposed for the Hilldale Shopping Center;
4. To direct city staff to work with Hilldale Shopping Center owners on any future plans for the Shopping Center area and any planning process for the area will seek neighborhood comments;
5. To direct city staff take into consideration recommendations from the forthcoming Hoyt Park Area Joint Neighborhood Plan for the area over which the two plans overlap, and that the two plans shall not conflict, with any conflicts to be remedied by adjustments to either or both plans as the Council sees fit;
6. To direct the Planning Division to commence a corridor plan for University Avenue from roughly Breese Terrace to Allen Boulevard in the next five years, the recommendations of which shall supersede any University Avenue corridor recommendations made in this plan;
7. To clarify that the neighborhood plan will address future land use as well as key issues in areas such as community facilities, economic development, historic resources, housing, parks and open space, transportation, and utilities and include future land use concepts and plan recommendations for the planning area and the commercial areas and future redevelopment sites within and abutting the area to ensure future improvements in the area are well-planned, coordinated, and compliment the character of University Hill Farms neighborhood;
8. To clarify that the Planning Division will solicit input from residents, the businesses community, and other major stakeholders on future land use concepts and identify concerns raised by the community;
9. To clarify that the Planning Division will inform the University Hill Farms Neighborhood Plan Steering Committee about planning issues identified by city staff and the commercial property owners;
10. To establish a University Hill Farms Ad Hoc Steering Committee composed of 9-members and hereby appointed by the Mayor, and confirmed by the Common Council:
UNIVERSITY HILL FARMS AD HOC STEERING COMMITTEE
JOSEPH R. KEYES (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of University Hill Farms Neighborhood Association Representative. Mr. Keyes is a manager at TDS Telecom and a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood.
JACLYN D. LAWTON (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of University Hill Farms Neighborhood Association Representative. Ms. Lawton is a retired civil engineer and a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood.
THOMAS R. FAVOUR (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of Homeowner Within Planning Area. Mr. Favour is a retired regional planning director.
CHRIS P. KLEIN (11th A.D. - appoint to the position of Homeowner Within Planning Area. Mr. Klein serves as a government relations director for the American Heart Association. He has children and is a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood.
KRISTINA E. GISLASON (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of Renter Within Planning Area. Ms. Gislason is a human resources manager at the University of Wisconsin's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
JONATHAN W. HOFFMAN (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of At-Large Member. Mr. Hoffman is a planner with SmithGroupJJR and a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood.
BRIAN W. OHM (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of At-Large Member. Mr. Ohm is a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood and a professor with the University of Wisconsin's Department of Urban and Regional Planning. He currently owns a home on Segoe Road.
THOMAS MOONEY (11th A.D.) - appoint to the position of Commercial Property Owner Representative. Mr. Mooney is the CEO of the Western Wisconsin Region of the American Red Cross and a homeowner in the University Hill Farms neighborhood.
AT LARGE POSITION- Vacant position to represent a residential or commercial tenant or commercial business owner to be appointed by the Mayor and approved by the Common Council.
All other items and conditions of Enactment No. Res-12-00294, File ID 25850 shall remain the same.