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Plan Commission backs substitute demolition ordinance after heated public hearing
Summary
After extended public comment from preservation advocates and developers, the Madison Plan Commission voted unanimously to recommend a substitute ordinance that creates a new historic-value review section and changes how non-historic demolitions are administratively approved.
The Madison Plan Commission on Feb. 17 voted unanimously to recommend that the Common Council adopt a substitute demolition ordinance that would repeal and replace section 28.185 and create section 41.28 in the Madison General Ordinances. The substitute clarifies historic-value categories used by the Landmarks Commission and would allow administrative approval for demolitions that the Landmarks Commission finds to have no known historic value while retaining Plan Commission review for buildings judged to have historic value.
Planning staff explained the goals of the substitute ordinance: to simplify review for clearly non-historic buildings, make the Landmarks Commission’s historic-value methodology part of ordinance, retain the certificate of appropriateness requirement for locally designated landmarks, and better structure the factors the Plan Commission should weigh when deciding whether demolition “aids implementation of…
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