No lights.

Contact your Alder, the Mayor and the Common Council

In an open letter to supporters, Edgewood High School revealed that they have appealed the Plan Commission’s unanimous May 11 decision to deny a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to install night lighting on their athletic field because their application did not meet the established standards.

This means the issue WILL BE DECIDED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL. After 4 delays, the new meeting date will be January 19. Alder Tag Evers suggested a special meeting but an acceptable date prior to the next Common Council meeting could not be found. Edgewood needs 2/3 of the vote, 14 alders, in order to overturn the Plan Commission’s ruling. No word on the resurrection of the religious lawsuit yet. While EHS claims to have offered a compromise, they have simply repackaged their earlier request. EHS has made no concessions.

Register your opposition

Register your opposition and/or register to speak at the Common Council. Attend the virtual meeting.

REGISTRATION IS OPEN. Select agenda item 5.

You are permitted to make a presentation of 5 minutes in length or less at the meeting. We encourage you to include a PDF slide of yourself so that the Council can put a human face to your comments. If you made a presentation to the Plan Commission, please present again to the Common Council.
Please submit any presentation materials in PDF form (no larger than 20 MB) to hstouder@cityofmadison.com or Tim Parks tparks@cityofmadison.com . You will be identified by your LAST NAME during the testimony.

Contact us at nonewstadiuminfo@gmail.com if you need assistance.

Your letters make the difference.
Read them here.

Tell the Mayor, your alder and the Common Council that you oppose allowing Edgewood to install lights and amplified sound. Edgewood’s neighbors are much closer than neighbors of comparable facilities and Edgewood is in the Lake Wingra watershed.

Please copy your message to allalders@cityofmadison.com and heatherstouder@cityofmadiosn.com to increase the visibility and effect of your message.

Don’t know who your alder is? Find out here.

MAYOR
Satya Rhodes-Conway

PLAN COMMISSION
Director
Heather Stouder

Members
Andrew J. Statz
Bradley A. Cantrell
Eric W. Sundquist
Jason S. Hagenow
Ledell Zellers
Lindsay Lemmer
Marsha A. Rummel
Michael W. Rewey
Patrick W. Heck
Nicole A. Solheim

Needs some ideas?

Edgewood’s application must meet these standards

COMPLETE DOCUMENT AVAILABLE HERE: Conditional Use Standards for Review

The Common Council uses this document to make their decision. Include elements in your letter or testimony. EHS’ Proposal does not meet the standards.

The City Plan Commission shall not approve a conditional use without due consideration of the recommendations in the City of Madison Comprehensive Plan and any applicable, neighborhood, neighborhood development, or special area plan, including design guidelines adopted as supplements to these plans. No application for a conditional use shall be granted by the Plan Commission unless it finds that all of the following conditions are present:

• The establishment, maintenance or operation of the conditional use will not be detrimental to or endanger the public health, safety, or general welfare.

• The uses, values and enjoyment of other property in the neighborhood for purposes already established will not be substantially impaired or diminished in any foreseeable manner.

• The establishment of the conditional use will not impede the normal and orderly development and improvement of the surrounding property for uses permitted in the district.

• Adequate utilities, access roads, drainage, parking supply, internal circulation improvements, including but not limited to vehicular, pedestrian, bicycle, public transit and other necessary site improvements have been or are being provided.

• Measures, which may include transportation demand management (TDM) and participation in a transportation management association have been or will be taken to provide adequate ingress and egress, including all off-site improvements, so designed as to minimize traffic congestion and to ensure public safety and adequate traffic flow, both on-site and on the public streets.

• When applying the above standards to an application for a reduction in off-street parking requirements, the Plan Commission shall consider and give decisive weight to all relevant facts, including but not limited to, the availability and accessibility of alternative parking; impact on adjacent residential neighborhoods; existing or potential shared parking arrangements; number of residential parking permits issued for the area; proximity to transit routes and/or bicycle paths and provision of bicycle racks; the proportion of the total parking required that is represented by the requested reduction; the proportion of the total parking required that is decreased by Sec. 28.141. The characteristics of the use, including hours of operation and peak parking demand times design and maintenance of off-street parking that will be provided; and whether the proposed use is now or a small addition to an existing use.

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