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<br /> • AGENDA ITEM 4. -- - • Copy Mailed
<br /> to Aldermen
<br /> City of Madison, Wisconsin •
<br /> • • SHBSrrn,7.e Presented •December 12, 1990
<br /> AN 'RESOLUTION 'Referred Planning Commission
<br /> City-County Taison ommi ee .
<br /> to adopt a statement of housing Rereferr-•
<br /> diversity policy and implementation •
<br /> • L:.rategies for the City of Madison ►a-4
<br /> eporte ac
<br /> . 01,*opte s •
<br /> Drafted by: Hickory R. Hurie Rules Susp. Tabled
<br /> Public Hearing •
<br /> Date: November 8, 1990
<br /> Amended: February 6, 1991 ,, , �. • � i '
<br /> Fiscal Note: This is a statement of policy 9Y THE CO"PTROLLER' S OFFICE
<br /> which creates a direction for future decisions pproved by
<br /> i It does not generate a specific cost or impact. -
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<br /> oa.tro e s S ce
<br /> RESOLUTION NO .
<br /> SPONSORS: Alds. Bruer, Stewart, Golden, Szwaja,
<br /> I D NUMBER 8-87
<br /> Heidt, McFarland, Wallner, Bigelow, Gonzalez,
<br /> Bauman, Miley, Lufler, Zipperer, Shivers, Bowser,
<br /> Trachtenberg, McGuire and Mayor Soglin
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<br /> WHEREAS, segregation of any population group to specific locations may be
<br /> detrimental to the welfare of people within the City, including the particular
<br /> group, by impeding social and economic interactions between all segments of the
<br /> • community, and
<br /> WHEREAS, it is a goal of the City of Madison, as stated in the City' s Land
<br /> Use Plan and Fair Share Housing Plan, to promote integration of diverse racial,
<br /> income, disability and other groups which occur among its population, and
<br /> WHEREAS, a goal of the City is to enhance and permit an individual' s choice
<br /> in where they chose to live, a goal codified and required in Federal law and
<br /> local ordinance which provide for equal treatment and prohibit discrimination,
<br /> and .
<br /> WHEREAS, choice in housing for certain distinctive residential living
<br /> arrangements and diversity in the location of available housing stock are both
<br /> essential to the achievement of these municipal goals, and
<br /> • WHEREAS, the City of Madison has within it state-licensed, community-based
<br /> residential facilities, a type of living arrangement defined in S46.03 State
<br /> Statute which are dispersed throughout the area, and
<br /> WHEREAS, the City of Madison has within it emergency and transitional
<br /> facilities for homeless persons which have tended to concentrate in areas with
<br /> less expensive housing including census tracts 17 and 19, and
<br /> WHEREAS, there is a perception in these neighborhoods that there is in
<br /> fact, a concentration of such places which, in and of itself, impedes the social
<br /> integration of residents of emergency and transitional housing into these
<br /> neighborhoods, and
<br /> WHEREAS, the City of Madison has within it publicly-assisted housing which
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