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Report to the Common Council on the City’s revenues and costs arising from the sale of the lots associated with the purchase of 9.48 acres of land from the Madison Audubon Society, Inc. and the platting of the Wolfe Addition to Hawk’s Creek.
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On December 10, 2012, the City, pursuant to RES-12-00875, File ID No. 27973, acquired 9.48
acres of land from the Madison Audubon Society, Inc. for public open space purposes, the expansion of the
Ice Age Junction Trail, the extension of Jeffy Trail, and to facilitate the future residential development of these
lands and the surrounding area.
On May 15, 2013, the City, pursuant to RES-13-00300, File ID No. 29550, acquired land from
Badger Mill Creek LLC for the expansion of open space and storm water management purposes to serve the
City’s future Hawk’s Creek development.
On July 29, 2013, the City, pursuant to RES-13-00006, File ID No. 28396, entered into the
Development and Land Swap Agreement for the Development of the Wolfe Addition to Hawks Creek (the
“Agreement”) with Hawk’s Addition, LLC to jointly plat and develop the Wolfe Addition to Hawk’s Creek, and as
part of this Agreement the City and Hawk’s Addition, LLC agreed that Hawk’s Addition, LLC would ultimately
own Lots 1-6 and Lot 16 of the plat and the City would ultimately own Lots 7-15 of the plat.
On July 18, 2013 the Wolfe Addition to Hawk’s Creek Plat (the “Plat”) was recorded with the
Register of Deeds, which Plat divided the combined lands of the City and Hawk’s Addition, LLC into 16
developable lots, 2 outlots and newly configured and extended right-of-way.
On October 1, 2013, the Common Council passed RES-13-00761. File ID No. 31432, which gave the Office of Real Estate Services in consultation with the City Engineer the authority to sell lots 7-15 of the Wolfe Addition to Hawks Creek Plat. In addition, the resolution required that once all the lots have been sold, the
Manager of the Office of Real Estate Services and the City Engineer sha...
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