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In This Edition News from around the region CARPC Data User Survey Water Matters in the Upper Sugar River Watershed Your Home in the Waubesa Watershed, a Family Day Local Planning and Zoning Workshop Reminder: Sign up for AGMV Youth Incentive Program

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News From Around the Region

Stay up to date with our roundup of planning and development news around the region.  View the map here

CARPC Data User Survey

CARPC staff are in the process of overhauling the data we offer our constituents. To better serve you, we would like to know some more about you and how you use the services we provide. Please follow the link below to take a short survey.

Data User Survey

Water Matters in the Upper Sugar River Watershed

On June 26, 2018, UW Discovery Farms and the Professional Dairy Producers hosted a Water Matters Tour which focused on water-quality innovations and practices being implemented by SunBurst Dairy, the Upper Sugar River Watershed Association, the City of Verona and Wisconsin Brewing Company to preserve water resources in the region. The tour showcased agricultural conservation strategies, urban stormwater management, and industrial beverage production and processing techniques for protecting and conserving water resources.

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Your Home in the Waubesa Watershed, a Family Day Event

Water Resources Management graduate students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invite you to a family event, "Your Home in the Waubesa Watershed", at Goodland County Park on Saturday, July 21st, 2018.   Our community partners will be offering water activities and educational experiences designed to engage all ages in preserving Lake Waubesa and its watershed. Kids and adults alike will enjoy performing water quality experiments, discovering aquatic insects, learning about native and invasive plants, playing water games, and investigating how Lake Waubesa is connected to streams and wetlands through online and interactive activities.

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Local planning and zoning workshops

CARPC is partnering with the UW Stevens Point Center for Land Use Education, UW Extension, and the City of Middleton to hold a two-part workshop series about planning for local officials. Workshops will be held August 30 th and September 27 th from 6:00 to 8:00PM at the Middleton Public Library. The workshops will help elected and appointed officials learn more about the tools and procedures used in local planning and zoning. The first workshop will focus on using and updating the comprehensive plan as a foundation for local use decision-making. The second workshop will focus on regulatory tools and procedures, including zoning and subdivision regulations. Local officials may choose to attend one or both workshops. Best of all, CARPC will cover the registration fee for the first 15 people who register!

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Click Here to Learn More about Plan Commission Workshops Click Here to Learn More about Zoning Board of Adjustment/Appeals Workshops

Reminder: sign up for AGMV's Youth Incentive Program

Participating organizations or groups will compete for cash donations of up to $6,000 A Greater Madison Vision invites schools and nonprofits serving youth to participate in the Youth Incentive Program to win donations and make their voices heard. Groups participate by encouraging their supporters, members, program participants, and other interested individuals to take the A Greater Madison Vision survey between September 12 and November 12, 2018. A Greater Madison Vision will gather public input for the next regional development plan. This plan will help determine gr owth and development in the Greater Madison region through 2040. See the link below for more details and to apply for the Survey Incentive Program!

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Events Next RPC Commission meeting August 9th 2018 @ 6:15pm City County Building Rm 351 210 Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard Madison WI, 53703