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Plan Commission approves removal of rooftop solar from UW HealthUniversity Row parking design

Madison Plan Commission · March 2, 2026
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Summary

The commission approved an alteration to the University Row plan development allowing UW Health to drop a rooftop solar canopy from a new parking structure, citing changed financial feasibility; vote passed with one commissioner recorded as voting no.

The Madison Plan Commission voted March 2 to approve an alteration to the plan development for 750 University Row that removes a previously proposed rooftop solar collector canopy from a parking structure serving an expanded UW Health clinic.

Planner Tim Parks told commissioners that while the staff found removal of the solar collectors "regrettable," the panels were not a requirement for meeting plan development standards and the commission could approve the alteration following public comment and the conditions in the staff report.

Matt Fair, UW…

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