Initiatives
What are the initaitives?
What are the initaitives?
Promote incremental and resilient development. Madison is suffering from a housing shortage to the tune of thousands of units. While some of that defecit can be addressed by large-scale suburban development, these ventures are risky for developers, costly for the city to provide utilities and services to, and do not promote accessibility. The city should instead focus on incrementally increasing the housing supply by means of infill development, up-zoning, and TOD overlays. These approaches limit sprawl, thereby better utilizing existing municipal infrastructure.
Promote incremental and resilient development. Madison is suffering from a housing shortage to the tune of thousands of units. While some of that defecit can be addressed by large-scale suburban development, these ventures are risky for developers, costly for the city to provide utilities and services to, and do not promote accessibility. The city should instead focus on incrementally increasing the housing supply by means of infill development, up-zoning, and TOD overlays. These approaches limit sprawl, thereby better utilizing existing municipal infrastructure.
Grow streets into safe and productive places. There is a time and a place for paved throughways where the priority is speed of travel, yet in the process of maximizing the car capacity of a street, we lose the inherent safety and wealth-building properties that streets provide communitites. In residential and urban areas, streets should instead be places dedicated to people, where residents can socialize, enjoy local community events, and more easily acccess and support local businesses. Realizing that vision requires narrower streets, safer sidewalks, and mixed-use development, among other efforts.
Grow streets into safe and productive places. There is a time and a place for paved throughways where the priority is speed of travel, yet in the process of maximizing the car capacity of a street, we lose the inherent safety and wealth-building properties that streets provide communitites. In residential and urban areas, streets should instead be places dedicated to people, where residents can socialize, enjoy local community events, and more easily acccess and support local businesses. Realizing that vision requires narrower streets, safer sidewalks, and mixed-use development, among other efforts.
Encourage sustainable transportation practices. The majority of Madison is composed of vast, suburban developments. This car-centric approach lacks future vision in capacity, maintenance, and environmental impact. The city has already begun expanding public transit networks and prioritizing bike lanes and separated paths, but this work must continue to a greater extent, should Madison wish to accomodate its growing population, reduce long-term expenses, and minimize its carbon footprint.
Encourage sustainable transportation practices. The majority of Madison is composed of vast, suburban developments. This car-centric approach lacks future vision in capacity, maintenance, and environmental impact. The city has already begun expanding public transit networks and prioritizing bike lanes and separated paths, but this work must continue to a greater extent, should Madison wish to accomodate its growing population, reduce long-term expenses, and minimize its carbon footprint.
End irresponsible parking policy. Simply put, parking is an inefficient use of space; parking lots are expensive, provide minimal benefit to the city's tax base, and are underutilized. Other wealth-producing structures effectively subsidize land used exclusively for car storage, which acts as a financial detriment to the city. Madison has made immense progress in recent years by eliminimating minimum parking requirements downtown, but new parking projects are actively being approved by the city, reducing this forward momentum.
End irresponsible parking policy. Simply put, parking is an inefficient use of space; parking lots are expensive, provide minimal benefit to the city's tax base, and are underutilized. Other wealth-producing structures effectively subsidize land used exclusively for car storage, which acts as a financial detriment to the city. Madison has made immense progress in recent years by eliminimating minimum parking requirements downtown, but new parking projects are actively being approved by the city, reducing this forward momentum.