Fiscal Note
No City appropriation is required with the adoption of this plan. City costs associated with urban development in this area will be included in future operating and capital budgets subject to Common Council approval.
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Adopting the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan, a supplement to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan
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WHEREAS, on November 5, 2019 the City of Madison Common Council authorized the City of Madison Planning Division to prepare the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan for a portion of a planned City growth area; and
WHEREAS, the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan planning area boundaries generally follow the Burke-Sun Prairie township line on the east, Thorson Road and Northeast Neighborhoods Development Plan boundary on the south, Felland Road and Wisconsin Southern Railroad tracks on the west and the north; and
WHEREAS, the Growth Framework in the City of Madison’s 2018 Comprehensive Plan identified the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan planning area as a near term Peripheral Planning Area (PPA-B); and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan recommends that detailed neighborhood development plans be prepared and adopted by the City before urban development and the extension of urban services may occur in the City’s peripheral area; and
WHEREAS, lands within the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan area are slated for attachment to the City of Madison under the terms of the Town of Burke, Village of DeForest, City of Sun Prairie and City of Madison Cooperative Plan, with final attachment scheduled to occur in 2036; and
WHEREAS, the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan includes detailed recommendations regarding land use, the transportation system, parks and open space, and utility service, and will be used as the guide in the City’s review of development proposals; and
WHEREAS, the Reiner Neighborhood Development planning process was introduced to the public at a November 18, 2019 public meeting; and
WHEREAS, in March 2020 the planning process was paused until April 2022 while the City undertook the Starkweather Creek Watershed study that reviewed the existing stormwater system to determine the causes of flooding and helped inform the stormwater management areas in the plan; and
WHEREAS, the Draft plan was presented and discussed at a public meeting on June 6, 2022; discussed with property owners at subsequent meetings; at a Plan Commission meeting on June 27, 2022, and at a Transportation Policy and Planning Board meeting on July 18, 2022; and
WHEREAS, the Reiner NDP boundary overlaps a portion of the 2002 Felland NDP. The recommendations in Reiner NDP for this overlap area shall supersede the recommendations in the Felland NDP.
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City of Madison adopts the Reiner Neighborhood Development Plan as a supplement to the Comprehensive Plan.