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Council puts developer's rezoning request for 77 Shoreline Strip on file without prejudice after months of debate
Summary
A request to rezone 77 Shoreline Strip (Badger Road) from TRV2 to TRU1, tied to a proposed 74-unit affordable housing project, drew months of outreach and resident opposition. The Common Council placed the rezoning on file without prejudice, 16-2, after Plan Commission concerns about height and compatibility with the South Madison plan.
The Common Council on March 11 placed on file without prejudice a rezoning request for 77 Shoreline Strip, a property along Badger Road, after public testimony and questions from council members about height, neighborhood impacts and outreach. The motion related to Legistar 86,990, the council's final action on the rezoning application, passed in a roll-call vote recorded as 16 ayes and 2 noes.
The rezoning petition, filed by Julian Walters of Eminent Development Corporation, asked the council to change the site from TRV2 (traditional residential varied 2) to TRU1 (traditional residential urban 1). The developer and his design team said the rezoning is needed for a proposed redevelopment that currently indicates a four-story, 74-unit building targeting affordable senior housing; Sketchworks Architecture's Ross Treichel told the council, "We're proposing 74 units of affordable senior housing." Staff said the rezoning would also allow up to five stories if measured at the plan'designated grade point.
Why it matters: The site is referenced in the 2022 South…
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