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File #: 80367    Version: 1 Name: Adopting an amendment to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.
Type: Resolution Status: Passed
File created: 10/11/2023 In control: Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development
On agenda: 12/5/2023 Final action: 12/5/2023
Enactment date: 12/13/2023 Enactment #: RES-23-00799
Title: Adopting an amendment to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.
Sponsors: Satya V. Rhodes-Conway, Derek Field, John W. Duncan
Attachments: 1. List of proposed Comp Plan revisions_2023_10-11.pdf, 2. Draft_GFLU_Map_2023-1011.pdf, 3. 2023_11_13 Plan Commission Memo.pdf, 4. Institutional_Uses_on_GLFU_Map.pdf, 5. Public Comments 9-28_11-13-23.pdf, 6. Link to Ordinance File ID 80281, 7. 111323_CC_public_comment.pdf, 8. 2023_1205 Comp Plan Interim Update_slides.pdf

Fiscal Note

The proposed resolution recommends adoption of the ordinance approving the amended City of Madison Comprehensive Plan. No additional appropriation required.

 

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Adopting an amendment to the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan.

 

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WHEREAS, on August 7, 2018 the City of Madison Common Council adopted a full update to the City’s Comprehensive Plan, as defined in Wisconsin Comprehensive Planning Law Sec. 66.1001 Wis. Stats.; and

 

WHEREAS, on June 6, 2023 the Common Council authorized the Planning Division to lead an interim update to the Comprehensive Plan focused on updating the Generalized Future Land Use (GFLU) Map and formally adding a Health & Safety element; and

 

WHEREAS, on June 6, 2023 the Common Council adopted a public participation plan, as required by Wis. Stat. § 66.1001(4), which described how the City intended to make the process accessible to all; and

 

WHEREAS, the public participation process included an interactive website, a virtual meeting, emailed project updates to interested parties and neighborhood associations, distribution of informational materials, social media posts, traditional media, and several Plan Commission meetings; and

 

WHEREAS, since adoption of the Comprehensive Plan in August of 2018 the City of Madison has adopted or amended fourteen sub-area plans as supplements to the Comprehensive Plan and the land use recommendations from these plans are incorporated into the draft GFLU Map compiled by Planning Division staff; and

 

WHEREAS, at their September 7, 2023 and September 18, 2023 meetings, the Plan Commission reviewed potential changes to the GFLU Map submitted by the public and recommended further consideration of several proposed changes; and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan fully updates the 2018 Comprehensive Plan and contains all of the required elements defined in Section 66.1001(2) of the Wisconsin Statutes; and

 

WHEREAS, this Interim Update serves as an update to the Housing Element of the Comprehensive Plan; and

 

WHEREAS, the City of Madison has held at least one public hearing on this ordinance in compliance with the requirements of Section 66.1001(4)(d) of the Wisconsin Statutes.

 

NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that as recorded in its official minutes the City of Madison Plan Commission recommends the City of Madison Common Council adopt Ordinance File ID 80281, which will constitute its adoption of the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan as the City’s Comprehensive Plan under Section 66.1001 of the Wisconsin Statutes.