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Council gives first reading to rezoning request for 1023 E. Vaughn Drive; planning staff recommended variance path
Summary
On first reading the Common Council considered Ordinance 2025-1 to rezone 1023 East Vaughn Drive from open space to historic district residential; planning staff and the planning commission recommended against map amendment and suggested the applicant pursue a variance from the BCA.
The Madison City Common Council gave a first reading Jan. 21 to Ordinance 2025-1, which would amend the city zoning map to rezone 1023 East Vaughn Drive from open space to historic district residential.
Planning staff told the council the property sits within an area zoned open space and that surrounding parcels are similarly zoned. Planning staff said the planning commission issued an unfavorable recommendation on the map amendment because changing open-space zoning for a single parcel would amount to spot zoning. Staff recommended the applicant instead pursue a variance from the BCA to allow improvements to the existing structure.
Planning staff also said the structure on the parcel appears to have been built around 1993 and that the open-space zoning was already in place at that time, which suggested the structure was nonconforming. “We also felt that it would be opening a very large can of worms if we started changing zoning for every nonconforming structure in town,” planning staff said, adding that a variance would be the better route to pursue.
The ordinance had its first reading and will return for a second reading at the council’s next meeting, currently scheduled for Feb. 4; no final vote or adoption occurred on Jan. 21.
