Comprehensive Plan Adopted! - Update #15

Posted by KirstieLaatsch on Thu, 11/01/2018 - 5:16pm

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Comprehensive Plan Adopted, Hard Copies of the Plan Available
August 7, 2018 was a momentous day… The Imagine Madison Comprehensive Plan was adopted by the Common Council! Since that momentous day, staff has incorporated all of the Common Council-approved changes into a final version of the Plan and hard copies of this document are hot off the press.

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We’re figuring most folks will interact with the Plan online. For those that would like to see or have a physical copy, you have options. There is a copy at the reference desk at all nine Madison Public Library locations. MPL will also have two copies in circulation that can be checked out. Hard copies of the Plan can be purchased for $24. Please contact us to confirm availability and arrange pickup.

Next Step – Implementation
Next up on the to-do list…working to implement the Plan’s recommendations. The City is committed to bringing the Plan’s recommendations to reality. However, fulfilling our collective vision will require contributions from the entire community. To learn more about the Plan and how you or your organization can partner with the City to implement the Plan, please contact us.

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Imagine Madison at the 2018 Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference
Please join us at the Mayor’s Neighborhood Conference on Saturday, November 17 at Monona Terrace. There will be two sessions directly related to Imagine Madison. The first session will highlight priorities heard through working directly with community organizations to reach historically underrepresented groups. Our second session will describe how the Plan will be used to help guide the city’s growth and development over the next 10+ years and how the Plan fits in to the development process.

 Saturday, November 17th 2018 at Monona Terrace in Madison.

A Greater Madison Vision
With Imagine Madison moving towards implementation, please consider weighing in on the future of the larger region. Through Imagine Madison, we planned for 70,000 new City of Madison residents by 2040. Dane County as a whole is expected to grow by about 150,000 people over a similar timeframe, almost twice the number of seats in Camp Randall Stadium.

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A Greater Madison Vision is an initiative to develop a shared vision and plan to guide public and private decisions about how the larger region – Dane County and surrounding communities – grows, to foster exceptional quality of life, economic opportunity, and a healthy environment for all. Go to greatermadisonvision.com to take a 10-minute online survey. You can explore four alternate futures considering housing, transportation, roads, rural preservation, water, and the environment, and provide your priorities on how the region should grow. If you have any questions, please contact Steve Steinhoff with the Capital Area Regional Planning Commission.



Brian, Kirstie, Ben, and the Imagine Madison Team
City of Madison Comprehensive Plan Update
608.243.0470 | 608.266.4866 | 608.261.9980
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We are embarking on the process of updating our Comprehensive plan. We were wondering did you hire a firm to help with your public outreach, if so who? Is there any other advice you could offer us on how you conducted your public outreach it created a nice product.
Best Regards,

Jack Zabrowski Associate Planner - City of La Crosse 608-789-8676

Hi Jack - Thanks for your inquiry! I will follow-up with details via email.

Best Regards, 

Kirstie Laatsch

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