District 6 Blog

The 2025 budget will take up the majority of the Council meeting on Tuesday. We will meet as the Committee of the Whole in order to have a conversation about budget approaches. The Wisconsin Policy Forum will make a presentation about the city’s…

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At Plan Commission Monday, there are proposed changes that affect a range of zoning districts regarding parking and site standards in response to the court case regarding 3722 Speedway. There is also a proposal by Hovde Properties to demolish…

Public Input Meeting #2 - Olbrich Park - North Parcel, Thursday, February 29 (VIRTUAL)

Alder Charles Myadze and I both attended the F-35 listening session on February 3 at MATC.

The Board of Public Works will be reviewing plans and specs for Rutledge St on Wednesday, it is agenda item 6 in the BPW meeting agenda. Check out the Rutledge St presentation for the results of the second survey and schematics for the different…

On Tuesday's Common Council agenda is a presentation from Finance staff about the city's 2025 Budget Outlook. If you miss it, it will be available on the Finance Dept.'s 2025 Budget Outlook webpage.

Tuesday’s Council meeting has lots of new business for introduction and referral. The big items will be the first three on the agenda: The annual Jeffrey Clay Erlanger Civility in Public Discourse Award given this year to former Madison Poet…

JCAP Real Estate, the developers who propose to build housing and a hotel on the Essen Haus site in the First Settlement neighborhood have now filed formal plans Wilson + Blair land use submittal. They propose Rezoning (PD to UMX) and request…

The meeting highlight this week is the second Passenger Rail Station Meeting on Tuesday from 6-7:30p. The registration link for the virtual meeting is below. Six of the eight proposals are "downtown" (three in D6) so I hope you are following the…