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Verona Rd./US 18/151 - Public involvement

Meetings | News releases | Newsletters/others | Coordination Plan/Impact analysis

Today more than ever, highway projects are developed as a cooperative effort between the public, state and federal review agencies, and WisDOT.

Preparing a project like Verona Road and the West Beltline from concept to actual construction takes many years.

During the Needs Assessment (NA) phase, WisDOT conducted extensive traffic modeling, public opinion polls, infrastructure deficiency surveys and coordination with local officials.

Conclusions from the NA led WisDOT to initiate a subsequent study to look at alternative solutions to the identified needs. During that study, WisDOT worked closely with the cities of Madison and Fitchburg, neighborhoods, businesses and others that might be affected by the solutions.

Public information meetings (PIM), hearings and other meetings

Scheduled/future

• Open house scheduled at Upper Iowa State University, 4601 Hammersley Road, Madison, to promote public understanding of this project and project outreach.
  • Staff will be available to respond to questions and feedback.
  • Project maps, displays, documents and handouts will be available, including a copy of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
  • View the news release
    • Wednesday, Jan. 18, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, Feb. 15, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, Mar. 21, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
    • Wednesday, April 4, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, May 2, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
    • Wednesday, June 6, 5 to 8 p.m.
• Open house scheduled at Boys and Girls Club, 4619 Jenewein Road, Madison.
  • Staff will be available to respond to questions and feedback.
  • Project maps, displays, documents and handouts will be available, including a copy of the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).
  • View the news release
    • Wednesday, Feb. 1, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
    • Wednesday, Mar. 7, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, April 18, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, May 16, 5 to 8 p.m.
    • Wednesday, June 20, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

The following documents are in Adobe PDF format unless noted otherwise.
(Note: Some files are large and may take longer to download depending on individual connection speeds. Users may need to zoom in to see details.)

Past meetings

2011

• Aug. 15, 2011 - Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) comment period ended
• Aug.-Dec., 2011 - Open house meetings
• April 6, 2011 - PIM
  • Ramp work at the Whitney Way interchange, which was not fully described in the Supplemental Draft EIS (SDEIS), will be more fully described in FEIS that WisDOT plans to release for public review/comment in May 2011.
  • Public is invited to review/comment upon these changes in advance of FEIS release.
  • Presentation (2.4 MB)

2010

• Oct. 13, 2010 - Public hearings for residents to view models and exhibits showing proposed improvements, view the September release of SDEIS, and comment on the proposal and present officially recorded testimony.
  • View items from this meeting including: (12.2 MB)
    • Exhibits
    • objetos expuestos en español (Exhibits in Spanish)
    • Presentation
• Mar. 4, 2010 - Environmental Justice (EJ) community outreach public meeting (local resident oriented) seeking community input regarding the stage one study alternatives from residents/business owners.
  • Presentation, part 1 of 3 (500 KB)
  • Presentation, part 2 of 3 (980 KB)
  • Presentation, part 3 of 3 (806 KB)
• Feb. 18, 2010 - EJ community outreach public meeting (local business and resident oriented).
• Feb. 4, 2010 – EJ community outreach public meeting (local business oriented). Allied-Dunn’s business focused.
• Jan. 21, 2010 - EJ outreach public meeting. (Allied-Dunn’s Marsh resident focused.).

2008

• Dec. 4, 2008 - PIM
  • Exhibits, complete (4.1 MB)

    The complete exhibits document has been broken down into the files below with smaller file sizes to reduce download times and ease of viewing specific sections.

    • Exhibits, part 1 of 3 (748 KB)
    • Exhibits, part 2 of 3 (2 MB)
    • Exhibits, part 3 of 3 (1.6 MB)
  • Objetos expuestos (392 KB)
• Nov. 18, 2008 - PIM
  • Handout (613 KB)
  • Folleto (1 MB)

• Sept. 20, 2007 - PIM
  • Slideshow (2 MB)
  • Exhibits (1.1 MB)

2004

• May 17 and 18, 2004 - Public hearing, release of Draft EIS (DEIS).

News releases

• Jan. 11, 2012 - Open house meetings for Verona Road/Beltline Interchange project in Dane County
• Aug. 25, 2011 - Open house for Verona Road/Beltline Interchange project, Dane County
• Mar. 31, 2011 - WisDOT to present US 151 (Verona Road) Environmental Impact Study at public information meeting

Newsletters/other

• Newsletter - July 2011 (2.5 MB)
• Newsletter - Sept. 2010
• Presentation to city of Madison Plan Commission - Dec. 14, 2009 (2.6 MB)
• Newsletter - Sept. 2007

Coordination Plan (CP)

The lead agencies for the project, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will use the CP document to interact with the public and other agencies and to inform the public and other agencies of how that interaction will be accomplished.

• View more information on the CP

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Last modified: January 12, 2012