September 6, 2019
It’s been a busy month already
SEPTEMBER 3. The decision determining whether or not to allow Edgewood to exit the Master Plan was referred from the Common Council back to the Plan Commission. Also referred was the decision to modify the Campus Institutional District ordinance requiring institutions in CI Districts without an approved Master Plan to get conditional use approval for the establishment, improvement or modification of specified uses.
Here are the new dates for these to be considered by the City:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16 - Plan Commission - CI amendment
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 1 - Common Council - CI amendment
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 - Plan Commission - Master Plan
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15 - Common Council - Master Plan
If you have not weighed in already please contact the Plan Commission and Common Council and ask them to vote No on ordinance #56839 (Repealing the Campus Master Plan for Edgewood ) and YES on #56981 (Amending Madison General Ordinances to require conditional use approval) .
AUGUST 26. A Protest Petition against the repeal of Section 28.022-00117 of the Madison General Ordinance adopting the Campus Master Plan was filed at the City Planning Department. Signatories had to live within 100 feet of the campus to sign, own their property, and all owners had to sign and be notarized to be legitimate. Households in both Vilas and Dudgeon-Monroe signed, and the total number of signatories was well over the requisite 20%.
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September 4, 2019
Further delay on Edgewood vote
Emily Hamer | Wisconsin State Journal
The council voted to further delay a decision on whether to repeal Edgewood High School’s master plan, which the city has said prohibits the school from hosting games on its athletic field.
Edgewood requested to repeal its master plan in July, but at an Aug. 26 meeting, the city Plan Commission voted to delay a vote on that request for three weeks. On that timeline, the master plan vote would have been taken up on the Sept. 16 Plan Commission meeting and the Oct. 1 city council meeting.
At Tuesday’s meeting, the city council voted 15-4 to delay the master plan vote for more than a month to the Oct. 14 Plan Commission meeting and Oct. 15 City Council meeting.
Ald. Shiva Bidar, 5th District, said the reason for the delay was to allow another proposal to get through the Plan Commission and City Council first. That proposal would require Edgewood High School to apply with the city before making modifications, such as adding lights or a sound system, to its field if the master plan is repealed.
City Council members who serve on the Plan Commission said they would like to know what the council decides on the field modification measure before voting on the master plan repeal. The council voted to keep that proposal on the earlier, Sept. 16 and Oct. 1 timeline.