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...
Downtown: Land of Luxury
Rob Zaleski's Cap Times article yesterday called Downtown Quickly Becoming a Land of Luxurywas one of those articles where you read the headline and...
MABA first to take ball and go home . . .
At the last mayor's workgroup, Alder Zach Brandon posed a question to the committee: Do you support "100% cost offsets" for the builder?He wanted...
Concerns about Mayor’s IZ workgroup
Kristian from thedailypage.com blogged about the Mayor's IZ workgroup that met today. It's a great summary of the meeting. In fact, I don't think...
(Still Not) Finding IZ . . .
6 months ago, I blogged about how it was hard to find information about IZ units on the web. (IZ = Inclusionary Zoning)Today, I...
Missing information . . .
Lesson #7: Counter fears and bad information with facts.So, I thought I would try to look at some more facts about inclusionary zoning ....
Inclusionary Zoning – We can’t even agree on a report.
We disagree. Wow. Yesterday was supposed to be the final meeting of the Inclusionary Zoning Oversight Committee where we worked on our...
Inclusionary Zoning Countdown . . .
In one week the council will be voting on something regarding Inclusionary Zoning. As you know, I've moved my Inclusionary Zoning postings to...
IZ Myths (or Lies or Spin) #6 – 10 (the most outrageous ones!)
Building on yesterday's post on the first 5 myths, lies or spin regarding inclusionary zoning - I thought I'd address some of the funniest/saddest/most...
Show me the money . . .
Some people have taken offense at a recent blog of mine regarding who was contacted by whom during the Inclusionary Zoning debate. Apparently,...
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...
Fixing IZ – Piecemeal
There is a current debate about if we can fix the pieces of the IZ (inclusionary zoning) ordinance that we have solutions for, or...