Neighborhood Coordination

The UW-Madison’s main campus is contained within the City of Madison and the Village of Shorewood Hills. It is also bordered by a number of established neighborhood associations. There is a robust tradition of shared decision making and transparency at the university (and in Madison’s neighborhoods) that is deeply rooted in shared governance and the belief that we are all passionate problem solvers that can bring insights, expertise, and ideas to create a better solution.

Campus development maintains a strong commitment to the context in which it physically resides and borders. The Joint Campus Area Committee is an official city committee set up to participate in facilities planning activities which affect the campus, city, village, and surrounding neighborhoods. This joint committee is composed of university, city, and village staff, as well as neighborhood representatives, alders, and a UW student. The charge of this committee (Madison General Ordinance Sec. 33.32(1)) is to identify community-wide and neighborhood impacts of campus-initiated, city/village related, and private sector development projects within the context of sound planning principles that afford the greatest benefit. Each of these committees acts as the voice of the neighborhood/organization and is tasked with disseminating information to their neighborhood/organization and receiving/reporting that information back to the committee. Committee members, meeting dates and agendas can be located here:

City of Madison Joint Campus Area Committee

 

City of Madison Campus Alders and Districts (link)

  • District #2 – Alder Juliana Bennett
  • District #4 – Alder Mike Verveer
  • District #5 – Alder Regina Vidaver
  • District #8 – Alder MGR Govindarajan
  • District #13 – Alder Tag Evers