Madison's third tiny house village approved
The project, which would be the nonprofit’s third tiny house village in the eastern part of the city, would include 22 portable housing units and a shared building in an The Madison Plan Commission has approved the approval of Occupy Madison's third tiny house village, a project that would include 22 portable housing units and a shared building at 201–205 S. Stoughton Road in an industrial area on the Far East Side. The commission also approved the Old Sauk Road development despite opposition and the reconstruction of the Essen Haus property. The project will be the nonprofit's third and final home village in the eastern part of the city, which plans to manufacture wooden tiny houses for all three communities at the site. Opponents of the project expressed concerns about drug use and safety issues at Occupy Madison’s two existing tiny house communities. The City Council will consider these projects further.
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Madison's Plan Commission signed off Monday on Occupy Madison’s third tiny house village.
The commission also approved the Old Sauk Road development despite pushback and the reconstruction of the Essen Haus property .
All of the projects approved Monday will also be considered by the City Council.
The commission approved a request by Occupy Madison to change the zoning of a Far East Side property from “Industrial-Limited” to the “Tiny House Village” zoning district.
The project, which would be the nonprofit’s third tiny house village in the eastern part of the city, would include 22 portable housing units and a shared building at 201–205 S. Stoughton Road in an industrial area on the Far East Side.
Occupy Madison intends to manufacture wooden tiny houses for all three of its communities at the site. It expects to begin replacing the temporary huts at its 1901 Aberg Ave. project with the wooden structures and moving those huts to the South Stoughton Road property. The first residents would move into the new location by early next summer, and all of the wooden tiny houses would be finished by 2029.
“As the city, county and country look to find solutions to affordable housing, we have to look at an array of housing models,” said Linda Ketcham, executive director of JustDane, formerly the Madison-area Urban Ministry. “The only way out of the housing crisis in the city and county is to build more affordable housing units. Occupy Madison’s tiny home villages are part of the solution.”
Opponents of the project expressed concern about drug use and safety issues at Occupy Madison’s two existing tiny house communities and argued that an industrial area is the wrong place to build new housing. City staff noted that there is limited pedestrian infrastructure near the site but deemed the existing and planned sidewalks and streetlights sufficient to support rezoning.
Ald. Derek Field, whose district includes the South Stoughton Road property, said he spent some time looking into Occupy Madison’s two existing tiny home communities and heard “pretty positive feedback” from nearby residents. “I do think that they will be good neighbors,” Field said.