Street Updates, Primary Election, Family Definition - D15 Update 2/20/23

LENA Monthly Meeting 

The Lake Edge Neighborhood Association will hold its monthly meeting on Monday at 6:30PM. You can find a link to the virtual meeting here. 

ECA Monthly Meeting

The Eastmorland Community Association will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday at 7PM at Pinney Library. You can find a link to the agenda here.

Primary Election on Tuesday

For those that have not already voted early, the in-person nonpartisan primary election will be held on Tuesday. You can find voting information from the city clerk here. The primary election includes the Madison mayor's seat as well as a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

The District 15 city alder seat will be on the April ballot along with the winners from this week's primary (no alder primary for D15 residents).

You can find candidate responses to the League of Women Voters questions here and candidate answers to questions posed by several local non-profits including Madison Bikes, Madison is for People, and Madison Area Bus Advocates here.

Hudson, Miller, Willard, Center, Sommers & Davies, Dempsey Projects

Both of these D15 street reconstruction projects will be at the Board of Public Works on Wednesday for approval before coming to the Common Council on February 28.

You can find details including the proposed design for the SASY project here and Dempsey/Davies project here.

You can find meeting details and a link to register for public comment at the Board of Public Works meeting here.

Family Definition

Last Monday, the Plan Commission took up the proposed ordinance change to the "Family" definition in our zoning code. Anyone interested in this policy proposal should consider watching the discussion here. The entire thing is about 3 hours long, starting with a staff presentation (30 min), followed by public comment (65 min), and then finally questions of staff, debate, and action (75 min). The Plan Commission's recommendation to approve the ordinance change was unanimous and a motion to delay a decision failed for lack of a second.

The proposed ordinance was also referred to our Housing Strategy committee, so they will also take it up at their meeting on Thursday. You can find more details about that meeting here. The ordinance will be back in front of the Common Council for action on February 28. 

I strongly support the recommendation of our Plan Commission and look forward to approving this important change when it's in front of council later this month.

Atwood Avenue Reconstruction Update

Work on Atwood Avenue between Fair Oaks and Cottage Grove Road is scheduled to begin this week. You can find all the details of the project and sign up for updates here. There will also be an open house meeting with more construction info next Monday at Olbrich Gardens (more info on the project site).

In the News

• Starting February 20: Television & Computer Recycling Free at Streets Division Drop-off Sites for Madison Residents

• Data Shows Significant Decline in Traffic Fatalities and Serious Injuries in Madison for Two Consecutive Years since Initiation of Vision Zero Program

• City of Madison Complete Meeting Schedule

• City of Madison Calendar of Events

District 15 Public Works Projects

(You can find a map of current public works projects in District 15 here. You can find a map of future road projects here.)

• Atwood Avenue/Olbrich Path - construction begins February 2023

• Davies St., Dempsey Rd. Reconstruction

• Hudson, Miller, Willard, Center, Sommers Reconstruction

• Starkweather Creek Watershed Flood Study

• East Isthmus & Yahara River Watershed Study

• Garver Office/Olbrich Cottage Repointing

District 15 Development Projects (dates are tentative and subject to change)

• Voit Redevelopment

  • 6/30 - PIM #1

  • 12/8 - PIM #2

Save the Date

• 2/27 - Atwood PIM

• 3/20 - LENA Meeting w/D15 candidates

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