Amending Sections within Chapter 28 of the Madison General Ordinances to allow reduced rear setback if adjacent to publicly-owned multi-use path.

This ordinance amends Madison General Ordinances Chapter 28 by reducing the required rear yard setback to 5 feet for properties adjacent to a publicly-owned multi-use path within 100 feet. This change applies to several zoning districts including Limited Mixed-Use, Neighborhood Mixed-Use, Traditional Shopping Street, Mixed-Use Center, Commercial Corridor - Transitional, Commercial Center, Regional Mixed-Use, Urban Office-Residential, Urban Mixed-Use, Traditional Employment, Suburban Employment, Suburban Employment Center, Employment Campus, Industrial - Limited, Industrial - General, and Campus-Institutional districts. The amendment aims to allow buildings to be located closer to multi-use paths, potentially enhancing their activation and aligning setbacks with adjacent side or front yards. Additionally, the ordinance clarifies that a specific side yard setback provision applies to street side yards and removes a potentially confusing side yard setback requirement related to building code openings, allowing the building code to govern those situations.

This change allows for potentially closer building development to multi-use paths, which could lead to new development or redevelopment opportunities adjacent to trails. It may also simplify zoning code application for properties bordering these paths.

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