Around this time each year, the Madison Parks Division contends with an overabundance of geese. Frequently, that happens in local parks, where birds can come into confrontation with humans and also leave behind bodily waste. The Parks Division uses a variety of methods to control the population of Canada geese. Those methods include, among other […]
Madison’s Crisis Response Team pushes forward
For nearly a year, Madison and Dane County leaders have been collaborating on a new Crisis Response Team. The project sends trained mental health emergency response teams to certain 9-1-1 emergency health calls. Currently, responding to those mental health emergencies typically falls to the police. Next Tuesday at 7 PM, the city will be hosting […]
City Updates: Bus Rapid Transit and Zoning Changes
Today’s show is all about city updates! First, Thomas Lynch and Justin Stuehrenberg from the Department of Transportation tell us about the latest developments on bringing a Bus Rapid Transit system to Madison. Then, in the second half, we talk to Madison planning division director Heather Stouder about zoning changes recently approved by the city […]
The Complicated Development Process of Raemisch Farm
In May of last year, Marty Rifkin of The Rifkin Group filed an application to rezone the Raemisch Farm area and develop 124 single-family lots and seven lots for future multi-family and mixed-use development. That kicked off a year-long process working with local community members in the area, which were concerned with how the project […]
City of Madison unveils 2021 Recyclopedia
The city of Madison first started offering recycling services in September 1968. Bryan Johnson, the city’s Recycling Coordinator, says that makes our recycling program one of the oldest in the nation. “As far as municipal curbside pick-up, we’re older than everybody else because we’re two years older than Earth Day, we started picking up newspapers […]
Madison water utility recommends measures to address PFAS contaminatio...
Yesterday, the city of Madison released a tentative plan to mitigate PFAS contamination at one of its wells. Well 15 has been shut down since March 2019, after community members raised concerns over PFAS contamination at the site. The well, located in northeast Madison, is about a mile away from the Truax Air Field — […]
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