Another short week . . . this time due to the Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday. Probably a good thing, cuz there’s likely to be a bunch of grumpy frozen people after the Packer’s loss. Here’s what I found of interest going on this week:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 2008
5:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL – DISCUSSION ROOM 201 CCB
- After this years budget and the grilling that the new staff at the Office of Community Services received, we’ll be getting a presentation on the long, exhaustive process they go through to make decisions about who gets funding. We’ll see if any council members actually show up or if they just like griping about something they don’t understand during the budget.
6:30 PM COMMON COUNCIL ROOM 201 CCB
- 12 & 77 – zoning code re-write appointments and committee formation.
- 17 & 89 – adding 5 more bus wraps.
- 22 – Allied Drive approval.
- 29 – Bying a property assessed at $203,600 for $876,000.
- 82 – Hotel/Motel Ordinance.
There may be other things of interest to you . . . you’d have to check this week’s schedule to see if you find anything. Lots of CDA activities with their subcommittees and at the Commission on People with Disabilities if you’re into that kind of thing. Also, the Long Range Metro Committee is busy, busy, busy and I can’t wait to see their final recommendations.
Otherwise the other item of interest is the Capitol Area Regional Planning Commission (CARPC). Seems as though when the Cap Times slammed the Mayor and County Executive about their lack of environmental activism, they were correct on at least one front. When the Mayor is given a chance to step up and prove them wrong, he runs the other direction. Rumor has it that while Kathleen Falk’s and the town’s appointments to the CARPC will be voting to support the excellent goals and the policies and criteria in the draft proposals of the new CARPC, 3 out of 4 of Mayor Dave’s appointments are in question. And our Mayor is against things like transfer or purchase of development rights and formulas about where land can be developed that promote sprawl and leap frog development. Why is this so important? This is the body that is replacing the old Regional Planning Commission and these are the goals, policies and criteria that will guide the new Capital Area Regional Planning Commission that will shape how we grow in Dane County. There’s a hearing on the documents this Thursday at 7:00 in room 201 of the City-County Building and people are encouraged to go and register.
For more info, here’s the environmental groups’ comments on the subject. That letter was signed by:
Black Earth Creek Watershed Association, Barbara Borns;
The Friends of the Dane County Parks, Inc., Phil and Libby Lewis;
Friends of Badfish Creek, Caroline Werner;
Friends of Cherokee Marsh, Inc., Jon Becker;
League of Women Voters, Dane County, Connie Threinen;
Madison Audubon Society, Karen Etter Hale;
Sierra Club Four Lakes Group, Seth Nowak, Kate Blumenthal and Caryl Terrell;
Trout Unlimited, Jeff Smith;
Upper Sugar River Watershed Association, Becky Olsen;
West Waubesa Preservation Coalition, Phyllis Hasbrouck
