Fiscal Note
No additional City appropriation is required with the adoption of the Historic Preservation Plan. However, implementing recommendations within the Plan will require additional staff or consultant resources. The timeframe and estimated level of cost for each recommended strategy starts on page 54 of the plan. These expenditures, as well as others, will need to be included in future capital and operating budgets, subject to Common Council approval at that time.
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SUBSTITUTE Adopting the Historic Preservation Plan as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan, directing staff to implement the recommendations contained in the plan, accepting the Underrepresented Communities Historic Resource Survey Report, and dissolving the Historic Preservation Plan Advisory Committee.
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WHEREAS, during the development of the Downtown Plan, several commissions stressed the need for a City Historic Preservation Plan to ensure that historic preservation remains an effective tool to preserve the city’s historic resources; and
WHEREAS, early in the process of revising the Historic Preservation Ordinance, the Ad Hoc Landmarks Ordinance Review Committee and members of the public stressed the need for a City Historic Preservation Plan to guide the preservation program; and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan, adopted in August, 2018 (Legistar File # 51349), provided a vision for the City’s future and established a comprehensive set of goals, strategies and actions, including a recommendation to “Complete, adopt, and implement a Historic Preservation Plan as a framework for the future of Madison’s historic preservation program”; and
WHEREAS, in November 2017, the Common Council approved a resolution (Legistar File # 49177) creating the Historic Preservation Plan Advisory Committee (HPPAC)to assist with the development of the Historic Preservation Plan (Plan); and
WHEREAS, a consultant team, including Legacy Architecture, Inc., CE Planning Studio, LLC, and Archetype Histor...
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