Economic Development Plan – Recommendations 4 – 6

Junkets to Southern California and Germany, yeah, that's what will help economic development . . . RECOMMENDATION # 4 – ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TOOLKITED PLAN...

The Sun Sets on Inclusionary Zoning

And no one is going to stop it. After spending over 5 years of my life working on the City's Inclusionary Zoning Ordinance,...

Allied Drive . . . February 1st is Coming.

February 1st, the big deadline for the WHEDA application to help make the housing affordable on Allied Drive. And what do we...

How the Realtors (and other groups?) want to gut the IZ ordinance

At noon today, Phil Salkin presented a plan to "amend" the inclusionary zoning ordinance for the City of Madison to the Mayor's workgroup. Phil...

Ald. Judy Compton took lessons from the Chamber of Commerce

Folks, we have more bad numbers . . . this time, It is those big stacks of paper that Judy Compton has been waiving...

James Madison Park Committee given 2.5 months to decide.

The boys and I (I'm sorry, but its hard not to notice when there are 8 guys - counting the staff - and me...

Property Tax Exemption Stalemate Continues

So, the meeting planned for noon yesterday in the Mayor's office had to be moved from the Mayor's office to room 260 to accommodate...

Property Tax Exemption Fix?

Well, kinda, mostly.Yesterday afternoon, news spread throughout the community that the State was going to fix the property tax exemption in the omnibus bill,...