The sun is continuing to shine and community members throughout the Madison are continuing to collaboratively plan for the future of Madison through community gatherings, small group discussions, the Imagine Madison website, and more!
In Phase 2, we asked the community to weigh in on potential Strategies related to a wide-range of issues such as housing, transportation, and economic development. Additionally, we asked for suggested changes to the draft Future Land Use Map, which guides development in the city. We are excited to share the tremendous amount of thoughtful and creative ideas that community members have provided! You can view these ideas through the methods listed below:
These summaries provide highlights and trends of the 709 comments from the community regarding the draft Comprehensive Plan Strategies and Madison in general. These summaries also include entirely new ideas proposed by community members, not covered in the draft Strategies.
This document shows all comments received from community members regarding the draft Strategies and Madison in general.
Interactive Future Land Use Map with community comments
This map includes the 485 comments from community members regarding the draft Future Land Use Map. Most comments are ‘pinned’ to a specific location within the city.
Phase 3 of Imagine Madison will focus on prioritization. We’ll be asking for your input about which Strategies are the most important. We’ll also ask for your feedback as to where we should accommodate the additional 40,000 housing units that Madison is anticipated to add between now and 2040.
We hope you can join us at one of the meetings below:
- October 23 at Village on Park (2300 S Park St)
- October 24 at Lussier Community Education Center (55 S Gammon Rd)
- October 25 at Goodman Community Center (149 Waubesa Street)
All meetings are from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (open house from 6:00 – 6:30; presentation and group activities from 6:30 – 8:00). Refreshments and childcare will be provided. Spanish and Hmong interpreters will be at each meeting.
2017 Mayo's Neighborhood Roundtable
Register today for the 2017 Mayor's Neighborhood Roundtable which will be held Saturday, October 7 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM at the Monona Terrace Community and Convention Center. Onsite childcare and language assistance will be available (ASL, Hmong, Mandarin, and Spanish--other languages upon request). This one-half day event is free and brings together residents, nonprofits, and City staff and officials to work on neighborhood related issues.
Photo Contest Winners!
This summer, Imagine Madison hosted a photo contest asking community members to share their photos featuring people, places, and events in Madison using the hashtag #MyMadisonWI on social media or mailing them to the Imagine Madison team. The two winning Imagine Madison Photos of the summer were taken by Courtney Morrison and Emanuel Schwam.
Meet Savannah Ernzen
We'd like to introduce our new Planner working on Imagine Madison, Savannah Ernzen. Savannaha specializes in community engagement and has a passion for making equitable decisions through inclusive and interactive community discussions. Prior to joining the City of Madison, Savannah was a Planner for the Southwestern Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission and the City of Portland, Oregon. She earned her Masters of Urban and Regional Planning from Portland State University. Most importantly, she's excited to meet you and learn from you!
Brian, Kirstie, and Savannah
City of Madison Comprehensive Plan Update
608.243.0470 | 608.245.3641
Comments
The hard pill to swallow is to make it harder to drive and easier to use public transportation. That means giving up right of way to public transportation. Everything in Madison is squeezed through the Isthmus (or around the lakes). The bus system goes through the squeezed isthmus. The parking lanes that Schmidt's towing, the monopoly the city uses, become available to vehicular traffic from 3-6-ish pm on Johnson St, for example. We could make the parking lane a bus lane on Johnson and Gorham both through and massive reduce times through the Isthmus. The most important feature to improve public transit around the city is Bus priority or transit signal priority (TSP) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_priority), which optimizes stop lights for mass transit. This will piss off a lot of people, the massive majority of drivers. Along with this would be fare reductions, development decisions more favorable along transit lines. Change is hard. Change is required. Fuel will soon enough become prohibitively expensive. Efficiency of transport per available seat is required. The logistics are difficult, and all of it requires living wages for everyone involved, with reputable local interests staked in tough. That means no corporate BS from Uber and corporate politicians, if we are going to survive.
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