Union Corners: Temporary and Transitional Use Planning

Here you can find documents, spreadsheets and other materials that are related to the Temporary and Transitional use planning effort - Spring/Summer 2011. Most of the material here is in PDF format and you will need a PDF reader (such as Adobe Acrobat) to view these files.

1. April 16, 2011 - Union Corners Urban Design Talk - This presentation is the PDF (slides only) version of the urban design talk that was given by Lou Host-Jablonski at the Union Corners public input session on 9 April 2011. For the full talk with audio, click on the YouTube video elsewhere on this page.
2. April 16, 2011 - Union Corners Public Input Session - Thumbnail photos of the public input session at Bashford Methodist Church on 9 April 2011. PDF, 5 megs in size.
3. April 16, 2011 - Union Corners Photo Tour - This slideshow explores the Union Corners site and environs, as of 7 April 2011. PDF, 8.8 megs in size. For a video version, click on the YouTube video elsewhere on this page.
4. April 13, 2011 - Union Corners Guidance on Temporary and Transitional Use - This document, the result of the public input sessions, is intended to give guidance to the Congress for the New Urbanism design competition. This is a short, three page paper that outlines the Temporary and Transitional use design goals for Union Corners.
5. April 10, 2011 - Full List of Transitional Use Possibilities Spreadsheet - This PDF spreadsheet captures all of the 140+ possibilities for Temporary and Transitional use at Union Corners as part of a brainstorming activity conducted at the April 9, 2011 meeting for Transitional use planning, with 45 people assembled from the neighborhoods surrounding Union Corners. Uses and Activities are arranged in 10 categories.
6. April 10, 2011 - Transitional Uses Analyzed - This PDF is a version of t spreadsheet that analyzes possibilities for Temporary and Transitional use at Union Corners. Uses and Activities are analyzed according to their "stickiness", "transitional trajectory" and management issues
7. April 7, 2011 - Communication from the City to Nearby Residents Regarding Rock Crushing - This document is a letter sent from the City of Madison to residents near Union Corners describing the rock crushing and pavement recycling temporary use. This activity started with Williamson Street reconstruction in mid-April, 2011.

• Congress for New Urbanism Competition is taking place in the Spring of 2011. This competition is intended to bring conceptual designs for Union Corners to the Congress for New Urbanism conference in June of 2011. The Union Corners planning group has created a three page paper describing Temporary and Transitional uses to help guide submissions.
• Old McGrath Pages: This is the old McGrath project home page. It has a copy of the proposed site plan and some useful photos.
• City of Madison Union Corners Page: Also an old page reflecting the past planning efforts sponsored by the City of Madison and East Isthmus Neighborhoods Planning Council.
• Land Bank Press Release: This is the press release that the City of Madison issued when it put Union Corners into land bank status.
• Union Corners Planning Area Meeting Notes: the City of Madison kept all the planning meeting notes from all the work the Design charette did in 2003 and 2004. This is one very long page with all the notes in one place.
• Union Corners 2006 PUD: In 2006 there was an application for a Madison PUD for the planned Union Corners project. This is a detailed attempt to providing a zoning foundation for the site. This is a long PDF file.
• Site Plan: Part of the application for the 2006 PUD included a site plan to be presented to Madison's Urban Design Commission. This is a PDF that has that picture.
• 2005 Conceptual Plan: McGrath produced a conceptual plan for the site with some explanatory detail and a picture. This is a short PDF file.
• History: A short history of the site was prepared for the design studio process. This GIF has some internal images but also a useful overview of the history of the various parts of the site.
• Ancient planning documents: there have been a variety of long-term planning efforts in the neighborhoods surrounding the Union Corners parcel. Here are links to the East Washington Avenue - Old East Side Master Plan, the Schenk-Atwood-Starkweather-Worthington Park Master Plan, the Emerson East-Eken Park Neighborhoods Plan, and the East Washington Avenue Gateway revitalilzation plan.