Developing Inroads

Madison Common Council Resolution 19141523: Restricting the Amount and Type of Snow that can Fall in the City of Madison Full Story 

The Dane County Lakes and Watersheds Commission received a grant in 2004 from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to design water resource management policies based on the different types of water bodies found in Dane County. The ensuing Phase I report was followed by a successful application for a Phase II grant to come up with a management plan for Dane County water quality. You may already be yawning, but I assure you, you should be paying attention. Full Story 

Last Tuesday, the Common Council adopted an extremely modified version of what began as the "vehicle miles traveled reduction resolution." Although it was the reason I was at the meeting — it was far from being the highlight. It isn't every night that you get to hear references to prostitutes, ox-driven carts, uncivilized people in idling cars on Verona road, the outer fringe of Madison and the Man in the Mirror (this was not actually a reference to the Michael Jackson song — it was Alder Schumacher calling out the mayor to reduce his own vehicle miles traveled by 25 percent. The mayor noted his name was indeed not on the resolution). Full Story 

Instead of Zoning Code Rewrite Advisory Committee, I have decided that the ZCRAC should really stands for the Zero Cars Riding Around Committee. As someone who is completely dependent on her car for getting around due to the abysmal regional transportation situation and a myriad of other life situations that are mostly out of my control; I find the attitude and cavalier disregard for pragmatic implementation disturbing. Why do they have to hate on cars so much? Full Story