JOINT CAMPUS AREA COMMITTEE.
Madison General Ordinances § 33.32
in effect33.32 - JOINT CAMPUS AREA COMMITTEE.
(1) Creation. There is hereby created a Joint Campus Area Committee consisting of twenty (20) voting members and two (2) non-voting members. (Am. by ORD-26-00039, 7-30-26)
(2) Composition.
(a) The following members shall be appointed by the City of Madison: Common Council members representing Districts 4, 5, and 8 as voting members, and Districts 2 and 13 as non-voting members; one (1) resident representative each from the Greenbush, Vilas, and Regent neighborhood associations; one (1) resident representative from Capitol Neighborhoods; one (1) member of the Campus Area Neighborhood Association; one (1) member of the Plan Commission; and one (1) member of the Transportation Commission. The Plan Commission member, Transportation Commission, and each neighborhood resident representative shall be appointed by the Mayor subject to confirmation by the Common Council.
(b) The following members shall be appointed by the UW-Madison: one (1) designee of the Chancellor; one (1) representative from Facilities Planning and Management; one (1) representative from Transportation Services; one (1) representative from the Athletic Department; one (1) representative from University Housing; and one (1) representative from the School of Medicine and Public Health.
(c) Associated Students of Madison shall appoint one (1) representative.
(d) UW Hospital and Clinics shall appoint one (1) representative.
(e) The Shorewood Hills Village Board President shall appoint two (2) representatives.
(3) Terms of Appointees.
(a) Common Council members shall serve for as long as they represent their district;
(b) Neighborhood resident representatives shall serve for three (3) years and may be reappointed;
(c) Plan Commission and Transportation Commission appointees shall serve for as long as they are a member of the respective commission or committee they represent;
(d) All other members shall serve at the pleasure of the appointing body.
(4) Committee Representative on UW-Madison Design Review Board (DRB). One City of Madison appointee unaffiliated with the UW-Madison shall be appointed to the DRB established by the University of Wisconsin-Madison Campus Master Plan adopted by City ordinance ORD-17-00074 to meet the standards established under Section 28.097.
(5) Powers and Duties. The Committee shall:
(a) Provide feedback on UW-Madison projects to the DRB established under the UW-Madison Campus Master Plan at approximately the thirty-five percent (35%) and sixty percent (60) percent stages of the project planning/design process for projects within Campus-Institutional (CI) zoned areas. Other informational presentations may be made to the Committee at other stages of project development.
(b) Identify, discuss, and summarize community-wide and neighborhood impact of UW Madison infrastructure and development projects, and the impacts to UW Madison from city/village-initiated infrastructure and development projects, and private sector development projects, inside the campus boundary and within a mapped boundary near campus, per the map below. When relevant, make recommendations on whether a project should be approved and/or recommend strategies to mitigate negative impacts to applicable City, Village, or UW-Madison committee(s), commission(s), or other governing bodies.
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(c) Summarize city/village, UW-Madison, and neighborhood comments concerning current and planned pedestrian networks, bicycle routes, vehicular traffic, traffic analyses, parking, and transit service within the mapped boundary, per the map below, and provide those comments to relevant governmental bodies.
(d) Review and provide comments to the appropriate City of Madison or Village of Shorewood Hills committee(s)/commission(s) on development projects, rezoning requests, and Planned Development alterations that are inside the UW-Madison Campus boundary but not covered under Campus-Institutional zoning.
(Rpl. and Rec. by ORD-18-00035, 3-28-18; Am. by ORD-26-00003, 1-23-26)
Source: City of Madison, Wisconsin, Madison General Ordinances (Municode Library, library.municode.com)URL: https://library.municode.com/wi/madison/codes/code_of_ordinances?nodeId=COORMAWIVOIVCH32--45_CH33BOCOCO_33.32JOCAARCOFetched: 11/1/2026