Fiscal Note
Beginning in 2016, the City will make annual payments for five years of an estimated $462 to the Town of Westport (an amount equal to the town levy on the territory for the year 2014). The payments will come from the General Fund Miscellaneous account and will be accommodated in future budgets.
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Creating Section 15.01(567) of the Madison General Ordinances entitled "City Boundaries" and being part of the chapter entitled "Aldermanic Districts and Wards" annexing to the 18th Aldermanic District the Cherokee Annexation and assigning a temporary zoning classification of A Agriculture District, and amending Section 15.02(143) of the Madison General Ordinances to assign the attached property to Ward 143.
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DRAFTER'S ANALYSIS: This ordinance annexes land in the Town of Westport.
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An ordinance to create Subsection (567) of Section 15.01 of the General Ordinances of the City of Madison entitled “City Boundaries” and being part of the chapter entitled “Aldermanic Districts and Wards”.
WHEREAS, a petition with scale map attached was filed with the City Clerk of Madison on January 8, 2008, and mailed to the Clerk of the Town of Westport and the Municipal Boundary Review Section, Department of Commerce, State of Wisconsin, and has been presented to the City Common Council requesting annexation of the below-described territory to the City of Madison from the Town of Westport; said petition having been signed by the owners of all the real property within the territory, which lies contiguous to the City of Madison and has no residents; and
WHEREAS, the Cherokee Special Area Plan recommends low density residential uses for the surrounding area; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sec. 28.005, Madison General Ordinances, the annexed territory is declared to be in the A Agriculture District and the annexation and temporary zoning were considered by the Plan Commission at its...
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