Parking lot placement topic of public hearing

More than 100 downtown residents, business owners and UW-Madison students gathered at a public hearing Monday to provide their input on the location of a mid-State Street Parking Ramp. 

 

 

 

The ramp's construction, which is proposed by the Madison Parking Utility to be in the current location of the city-owned Buckeye parking lot between the the 200 blocks of West Gorham and West Gilman Street, may require the destruction of three homes constructed around the turn of the 20th century. 

 

 

 

'There are clearly a number of huge issues that need to be addressed,\ Ald. Mike Verveer, District 4 said. ""I do think, though, that there is enough of a conscience that the city should continue to localize our efforts in increasing parking in that block.\