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Amending Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to amend the Campus-Institutional (CI) District Master Plan for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus for the portion of the campus generally addressed as 1410-1550 and 1415 Engineering Drive and 1509-1513 University Avenue to include specific plans for the College of Engineering. (District 5)
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DRAFTER’S ANALYSIS: In 2017, the University of Wisconsin-Madison received Common Council approval of a Campus-Institutional (CI) zoning district campus master plan to guide the future growth of most of the University campus. The approved master plan includes two projects for the College of Engineering on the portion of the Campus west of N Randall Avenue and south of Campus Drive and W Johnson Street, S-01 and S-02. The proposed amendment seeks to consolidate the two project sites to create a project for a 385,000 square-foot facility for the College of Engineering. The proposed project is shown in the amendment materials as “S-01/02, Engineering Drive 1410 - Replacement”; per the materials, the proposed building may be up to eight (8) stories tall. Demolition of the existing College of Engineering building at 1410 Engineering Drive is called for as a ‘Phase 2 Removal’ on page 178 of the adopted 2017/2019 Campus Master Plan for the University.
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The Common Council of the City of Madison do hereby ordain as follows:
WHEREAS Campus-Institutional (CI) District was established to recognize the City's major educational and medical institutions as important activity centers and traffic generators, accommodate the growth and development needs of these institutions, and coordinate the master plans of these institutions with the City's plans, policies and zoning standards, and
WHEREAS Section 28.097(2) of the Zoning Code requires that any Campus Institutional District created after January 2, 2013 submit a Campus Master Plan, which shall be approved as part of a map amendment, and in the absence of said Plan, individual development proposals and changes that exceed 4,000 square feet in gross floor area within any five-year period shall require conditional use approval, and
WHEREAS University of Wisconsin-Madison submitted a Campus Master Plan to provide a regulatory framework for most of the University’s approximately 936-acre campus; and
WHEREAS the Common Council adopted Second Substitute Ordinance 17-00074 (ID 47245) on July 18, 2017 creating Section 28.022-00289 of the Madison General Ordinances to adopt the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus-Institutional District Master Plan as an integral part of the Zoning Code following a recommendation by the Plan Commission on June 19, 2017, said approved master plan to expire on January 1, 2029 consistent with MGO Section 28.097(2)(b), and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan provides general information on the University’s plans to demolition and improve the many “neighborhoods” that comprise the campus, including the general placement, anticipated programming, and bulk of new buildings to be constructed within the effective period of the plan; and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan includes the demolition of 1410 Engineering Drive as a ‘Phase 2 Removal’; and
WHEREAS the adopted campus master plan identifies two projects, S-01 and S-02 on the north side of Engineering Drive west of N Randall Aveue. Project S-01 was identified as a six-story, 271,667 square-foot Engineering Research Building Replacement, while S-02 was identified as a six-story, 169,901 square-foot replacement for the existing 1410 Engineering facility.
WHEREAS the University is seeking approval of an amendment to the campus master plan to consolidate the S-01 and S-02 projects to allow replacement of the 1410 Engineering Drive facility with a single, eight-story, 385,000 square-foot academic/ research facility for the College of Engineering, shown in the amended materials as S-01/ 02; and
WHEREAS MGO Section 28.097(10) stipulates that no alteration of an approved Campus Master Plan shall be permitted unless approved by the Plan Commission; if the change or addition to the Campus Master Plan constitutes a substantial alteration of the original plan, a major alteration approved by the Common Council is required;
NOW BE IT THEREFORE ORDAINED by the Common Council of the City of Madison as follows:
1. Map Amendment 00289 of Section 28.022 of the Madison General Ordinances is hereby amended for the following described portion of the campus to adopt amended plans for the College of Engineering as part of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus-Institutional District Master Plan, as shown on the plans attached to this ordinance file:
“A parcel of land located in the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 22, T7N, R9E, City of Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin, more particularly described as follows:
Commencing at the North Quarter Corner of said Section 22; thence Southerly, 600 feet, more or less, along the West line of said NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said Section 22 to the center of the intersection of University Avenue and said West line of said NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of Section 22 and the Point of Beginning; thence Easterly along the centerline of University Avenue, 675 feet, more or less, to the southwesterly line of the railroad right of way owned by the State of Wisconsin laying southwest of the right of way of Campus Drive and its northwesterly prolongation; thence Southeasterly along said southwesterly railroad right of way and prolongation a distance of 670 feet, more or less, to the westerly right of way of N Randall Avenue; thence Southerly along said westerly right of way 457 feet, more or less; thence N89°07’54”W, 573.09 feet, more or less; thence N00°21’21”E, 369.52 feet, more or less; thence N89°12’33”W, 430.82 feet, more or less; thence S00°00’24”E, 55.0 feet, more or less; thence N88°38’18”W, 250 feet, more or less, to the West line of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said Section 22; thence N00°00’24”E along said West line of the NW 1/4 of the NE 1/4 of said Section 22 a distance of 430 feet, more or less, to the Point of Beginning. Said described amendment area contains 13.9 acres (606,193.1 square feet), more or less.”