Here’s the run down on the many, many, many things going on in District 2. Moving houses, developments, neighborhood plans, new bars, planning processes, etc. etc.
UPCOMING MEETINGS
Tonight is the meeting to discuss moving the Conklin House from 1022 W Johnson to the 500 block of E Mifflin. The house would go in a surface parking lot and replace some old garages. We will also be discussing the Supreme Water Sports proposal to do additional programming in the park, including using motorized boats. That meeting is tonight at the Gates of Heaven (the small building on the west end of James Madison Park) at 6:30 tonight.
The second meeting that may be of interest is on that Alder Marsha Rummel is holding to have Blue Planet Partners and Common Wealth Development update First Settlement Neighborhood and parts of James Madison Park Neighborhood about the Madison Public Market that could be located on the Brayton Lot (the big parking lot between Butler and Hancock on the S. Side of E. Washington Ave.) That meeting is Monday, February 4th at 7:00 at St. Patrick’s Parish Hall (404 E. Main St.)
DEVELOPMENT UPDATES
You may have read the paper or my blog noting that both the Cliff Fisher project (100 block Blair/Hancock 4 story building) and the Pinkus McBride block ( 6 houses demolished, four story building) are both moving forward after Monday night’s Plan Commission meeting. They should both be at the Council meeting on February 5th.
PLANNING UPDATES
You may have also read that both the E. Washington BUILD plan and the Tenney Lapham Neighborhood Plan also passed at the Plan Commission meeting on Monday night. Thanks to the plan commission for helping to resolve the inconsistencies in the plans. Next, both plans should be at the Common Council on February 5th as well. Many, many thanks to Patrick McDonnell for the many, many hours of time he put into the TLNA plan. It will be good to finally pass these plans.
JAMES MADISON PARK UPDATES
Still no committee meeting scheduled. I don’t really expect much to happen. According to my emails to staff in the beginning of December, meetings about Lincoln School, the Collins house and the other two houses in the park were supposed to start mid-January. Mid-January has obviously come and gone.
The neighborhoods will be getting together to talk about the $200,000 for improvements to the park if the James Madison Park District can get it together and find a location to have a meeting.
OUT NIGHTCLUB
Seems as though the plans for the original site has fallen through or at least changed and they are now looking at locating at Fyfe’s. If we ever settle on what their plans are, I’ll be holding a neighborhood meeting for people in the area to be able to ask questions and learn more about the proposal. Also, the original site still has other people interested in using that space and when I know more I’ll let you know.
