What’s in a Name?
Depending upon who you talk to, the promise of the future? Or much ado about nothing?Currently, the City of Madison has a Department...
CC Recap – Bike Lanes on Midvale?
Does Midvale need in street bike lanes?From the council meeting last night.PUBLIC TESTIMONYAbout a dozen speakers came to speak about how they don't want...
Common Council Recap – The Basics (Not quite done . . .)
Bike lanes on Midvale, 600 E Johnson Project, Chronic Nuisance Ordinance, TIF agreement for Capital West, Capital Revolving Funds, the Sign Ordinance and oh,...
Kozak Properties
Last week, Marc Eisen wrote a piece in the Isthmus on the potential sale of several Kozak properties, the majority of which are on...
What’s a Brownfield? The State Capital?
Ok - so in actually reading the info for the Economic Development Commission Meeting, I discovered that my house and my recently redeveloped office...
What are (and are not) TODs?
TOD = Transit Oriented DevelopmentThe Whole Foods project we rejected last night was not a TOD.Last night during the Whole Foods/Joseph Freed discussion, there...
French Battery Factory Replica Considered Historic Preservation?
Last night at the plan commission we approved the demolition of French Battery Factory in order to make way for new development (Union Corners)....
Where is the Win-Win on the Edgewater (Or How Developers Make it Hard on...
The win-win, is on East Washington.A week or two ago, a neighbor posed this question on a listserve.I know most are getting sick about...
Continued Round Up for this Week
Less regurgitation of things you should know, more attitude! :)BIGOTED FLASHBACKAs my co-worker and friend Megin McDonell says on my Facebook page "hello?...
New Year’s Eve Round Up
There were too many items yesterday for me not to do a round up - so here it is . . . COUNTY BOARD...
Budget time is coming, and I"m feeling cranky.
You know, when we pass the budget, we fight quite a bit over what does and does not get funded. We scrimp and...
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 ....