Edgewater Ramping Up Round Up

More new information flowing out of the city and the latest marching orders from Hammes Company.

CITY ATTORNEY MEMOPALOOZA
This document has several memos from the city attorney, the new one is the memo about how many votes are needed for each item at the council. That’s the first 3 pages indicate that the following votes are needed:
– Land Use/Zoning/PUD with protest petition- 15 votes if all 20 vote, 14 votes if only 18 alders vote.
– Conditional Use Appeal – 14 votes to overturn the Plan Commission if they accept the appeal.
– Landmarks Appeal – 14 votes to overturn Landmarks and grant the Certificate of Appropriateness.
– 1965 Ordinance – 11 votes
– TIF – 11 votes

The rest of the document has the following memos:
– p. 4 – Memo on if they should accept the conditional use appeal.
– p. 12 – Memo on the Landmarks Appeal from December
– p. 17 – The “Hardship” test for the Landmarks Appeal
– p. 19 – Landmarks Appeal decision making process

HOTELIERS HIRE EXPERT TO ANALYZE THE NUMBERS

From: Michael Hool [michaelhool@wi.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 8:12 AM
To: ALL ALDERS
Subject: The Edgewater Redevelopment Project

Alderpersons,

I was hired by a group of concerned Madison Hoteliers to perform an independent review of some of the developer’s, The Hammes company, operational projections for the Edgewater Redevelopment project that has requested $16 million in TIF dollars from the City of Madison. Specifically, my report tested the reasonableness of the following projections by the developer over the first ten years of operation of the proposed project: Room Taxes to be generated, Sales Taxes to be generated and new hotel operation jobs (EFTE) to be created by the project. Below is a chart presenting the findings of my study. I presented these results at the recent Board of Estimates meeting on Monday, May 10th. You will find attached both a copy of the study that was performed that arrived at these results as well as a summarizing power point presentation. I will be at the upcoming Common Council Meeting on Tuesday, May 18th to present these findings and answer any questions you may have.

Thank you,
Michael Hool

Hammes Co.
Projected Room Tax over ten years $6.3 million
Projected Sales Tax over Ten years $8.1 million
New Jobs (EFTE’S) Created 350 – 400

HMI Projections
Projected Room Tax over ten years $5.69 million
Projected Sales Tax over Ten years $5.49 million
New Jobs (EFTE’S) Created 150-190

% Difference
Projected Room Tax over ten years 9.7%
Projected Sales Tax over Ten years 32.2%
New Jobs (EFTE’S) Created 84.2% – 166.7%

PLAN COMMISSION TRANSCRIPT

From: Parks, Timothy
Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:20 PM
To: ALL ALDERS; Cieslewicz, Dave
Cc: Murphy, Brad; May, Michael; Mendoza, Mario; Noonan, Katherine; Veldran, Lisa
Subject: Transcript of March 22 Plan Commission proceedings re: Edgewater Hotel

All,

At the request of the City Attorney’s Office, the Planning Division ordered a transcript of the March 22, 2010 Plan Commission hearing on the Edgewater Hotel Planned Unit Development and conditional use. A copy of that transcript is attached to this message. In addition, the transcript has been posted to the conditional use appeal file (#18015) in Legistar, and a printed copy of the transcript is available for review in the City Council’s Office.

All the best,

TIM PARKS

I shared the slightly messed up video and audio earlier, but here’s the transcript of the discussion on the Conditional Use that is being appealed. It starts on Page 101 of 102:

NAN FEY: Okay. That brings us to Item #11. This is a request for conditional use permit for waterfront development to allow the re-development and expansion of the hotel.

ALDER KERR: Move.

ALDER SCHUMACHER: Second.

NAN FEY: . . . in the back, Boll. Okay. Moved and seconded for approval of a motion, of the 4 conditional use, Item #11. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say, aye.

COMMISSIONERS: Aye.

NAN FEY: Those opposed, no.

COMMISSIONER: No.

HAMMES MARCHING ORDERS
Make sure to do the items list as 1. 🙂

From: Sarah Carpenter
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 22:06:01
To:
Cc: ;
Subject: Edgewater…How Can You Help?

Many supporters are asking.How can I help? Your help is needed over the next several days to let the alders and other city officials know that you support the Edgewater redevelopment. Fortunately, there are three critical ways you can help Bob, Amy and I with our development efforts.

1. Write a letter of support to the alders at allalders@cityofmadison.com , or click on this link to submit a comment directly to the council’s website at http://www.cityofmadison.com/Council/contact.cfm. You may prefer to mail or fax a letter, or even call the council office directly.

Common Council Office:
210 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Room 417
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: (608) 266-4071
Fax: (608) 267-8669

1. Register in support of the project on our e-petition at www.edgewater2012.com. Click on the e-petition button on the homepage which will direct you to the petition page. The petition also has a forward to a friend feature, so please forward it to five of your friends when you log in. Otherwise forward this link to all of your friends, family and co-workers to register their support. It takes only seconds to complete, and we need as many signatures as possible. http://www.channel1media.com/edgewater/register.php.

1. Attend the Common Council Meeting next Tuesday, May 18th and register in support.

City County Building
210 Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard
Room 201
6:30 p.m. (Registration will be available at 6:15 p.m.)

This is literally a project that will not only benefit the City of Madison and the University, but it will benefit everyone. We have come this far, now it is up to all of us to spread the word that the Common Council needs to “Vote Yes”. We thank you for joining us in support of this worthy project!

Sarah Dunn Carpenter
Director of Community Relations
Hammes Company
22 East Mifflin Street, Suite 800
Madison, WI. 53703
608-274-7447
608-274-7442
carpenters@hammescosports.com
www.edgewater2012.com

PLEASE VISIT THE WEBSITE FOR THE EDGEWATER REDEVELOPMENT – WWW.EDGEWATER2012.COM FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROJECT AND TO REGISTER YOUR SUPPORT ON THE E-PETITION.

BOARD OF ESTIMATES MEETING ON LINE
If you’re so inclined, the video is now up.
Board of Estimates: Meeting of May 10, 2010
Part 1 || Part 2

COST ANALYSIS OF THE TIF REQUEST
This was handed out at the Board of Estimates, with little time for speakers to review it, so it will likely be the subject of testimony for the first time on Tuesday.

MARCH VERSION OF THE PLAZA OPERATING AGREEMENT FROM HAMMES
I don’t think this is the final version, but this is what Bridget Maniaci handed out at the plan commission after the public testimony, so no one could comment on it.

IT ALL DEPENDS UPON THE CROWD!
Last night, in a PACKED room at Olbrich at the 10th Birthday of the Social Justice Center, John Nichols introduced Marsha Rummel as on of the alders that would be voting against the Edgewater, and the room erupted in applause. Old Madisonians, young and newer Madisonians alike, all Madisonians who believed in and worked hard for many social justice causes throughout the years, applauded the demise of the this Edgewater project. Interesting.