2nd Voit Mtg, Passenger Rail, New Payment Portal - D15 Update 12/6/22

Common Council Meeting

On Tuesday, the Common Council will hold its last regularly scheduled meeting of the year, covering a number of items of citywide interest. You can find all the details for the meeting here including links to the agenda and to register for public comment. Congratulations to District 15 resident, Megan Miller, for their appointment to the Community Development Block Grant Committee.

Passenger Rail Station Study Kick-off Meeting

On Wednesday, the public is invited to a kick-off meeting around a passenger rail station in Madison. You can find more details and register here. The meeting will include a presentation explaining the project, with opportunities to provide input and ask questions about the presentation and the opportunity to correspond with the elected officials, City Staff, Amtrak Staff, and the project consultant team.

New City Online Payments Portal opens on December 8th

On Thursday, the new online payment portal for Madison Municipal Services (your water bill, etc) is planned to go live. If you had existing auto-pay options, you will have to recreate them. Find out more on the new payment portal here.

Voit Farm Redevelopment Meeting #2

You're invited to a neighborhood meeting where Starkweather Creek, LLC, will share master planning work for the Voit site that integrates feedback from the initial neighborhood meeting. The master planning team and developers will be present at the meeting to facilitate further discussion and answer questions. You have the option to attend the meeting in person or virtually. You can register for the virtual meeting here. If you would like to attend the virtual meeting in person, there will be a connection to the meeting available at the Goodman Community Center Evjue Room. Meeting begins at 6:30pm. 

SASYNA Monthly Meeting

The SASY neighborhood association will also hold its monthly meeting on Thursday at Goodman CC starting at 6:30. SASYNA meetings are open to the public and neighbors are welcome. You can find the agenda (and November minutes) here.

In the News

• Madison Parks Moves to Olin Park

• Fall Leaf Collection is Complete for 2022

• Streets Division Drop-off Sites Start Winter Hours on December 5, 2022

• Mayor and Alders Propose to Allow More Development Near High Capacity Transit 

• Alder Syed Abbas Announces Resignation from Madison Common Council Effective December 1, 2022 

• Madison Commons, Media Digest

• 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.)

• St. Paul Avenue, Ohio Avenue, Talmadge Street, Jackson Street, Lafollette Avenue Reconstruction

• Eastmorland Sidewalk Installation

• Starkweather Creek Watershed Flood Study

• East Isthmus & Yahara River Watershed Study

• Atwood Avenue/Olbrich Path

• Davies St., Dempsey Rd., Maher Ave.

• Worthington Avenue, Powers Avenue, Thurber Avenue Sanitary Replacement

• Garver Office/Olbrich Cottage Repointing

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

• 3900 Monona Drive

  • 4/7 - Public Information Meeting

  • 4/11 - Submission of application

  • 6/13 - Plan Commission

  • 6/21 - Council meeting

• Voit Farm

  • 6/30 - Public Information Meeting

• 219 N. Fair Oaks

  • 7/7 - Public Information Meeting

  • 11/7 - Plan Commission - Temp. A to TR-U1, Demolition Permit,  and Conditional Use - Demolish commercial building to construct four-story, 110-unit apartment building 

  • 11/22 - Common Council

Save the Date

• 12/21 - 22nd winter solstice celebration in Olbrich Park by the sledding hill on baseball diamond #3 on December 21st at 4:20 or so

• 1/26 - Hudson/Miller/Willard/Center/Sommers Public Information Meeting

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