Welcome to Greenbush Neighborhood Association

Last update Friday, May 31, 2024


Neighborhood Contacts || Neighborhood Association Meetings || Profile, Statistics and Indicators || Neighborhood Communications || Plans and Publications || Governmental Officials || Facilities and Services ||

Neighborhood Contacts
Neighborhood Contact Person(s): Aris Blevins, arisblevins@gmail.com
Jphn Perkins, perkinsj71@gmail.com

Neighborhood Association Meetings
Neighborhood Association Meeting: Place: Zoom, or around the neighborhood.
Address: Sign up for the email list: https://groups.io/g/greenbushneighborhood
Date: Second Monday of the month
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Please contact neighborhood association to confirm meeting date, location, and time.

Profile, Statistics and Indicators
Neighborhood Description: We take our name from the historic Greenbush addition, which served as the first home of many Italian and Eastern European immigrants to Madison at the close of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. The current Greenbush Neighborhood contains the last of the original homes from that old neighborhood, most of which was demolished in the late 1960s in order to build Bayview, Gay Braxton, and Brittingham apartments. Today the Greenbush Neighborhood offers access to Vilas Beach, Vilas Park Zoo, the UW Arboretum, the UW campus, and a short bus ride or walk to Madison's thriving downtown. We also contain two of Madison's three hospitals within our neighborhood boundaries. The neighborhood offers a wide variety of homes, from efficiency apartments to new condominiums to gracious bungalows from the 1920s.
Neighborhood Boundaries: Regent Street on the north, South Park Street on the east, Erin Street, South Orchard Drive, Wingra Drive and Haywood Drive on the south, South Randall Avenue on the west
Neighborhood Statistics Indicators: The Neighborhood Indicators Project is a demonstration of key characteristics and various indicators that relate to the quality of life in Madison at the neighborhood level. Basic neighborhood information as well as housing, public safety, health and family well-being, economic, and transportation indicators by neighborhood is available.
Neighborhood Events: We host multiple events throughout the year: - Labor Day / Memorial Day Potluck - Leaf Clean Up Workdays - Halloween Costume Parade - Waffle-Palooza - Winter Warm Up

Neighborhood Communications
Newsletter: Greenbush Neighborhood https://groups.io/g/greenbushneighborhood
John Perkins, perkinsj71@gmail.com
Jennifer Salin, jenkathay@yahoo.com
Web Page: https://www.greenbushneighborhood.org/

Plans and Publications
City Plans: Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 1 (March 2004)
Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 2 (March 2004)
Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 3 (March 2004)
Brittingham-Vilas Neighborhood Plan (April 4, 1989)
Campus Next Door: A Preliminary Plan for the Winga Park and University Heights-Higland Park Neighborhoods, December 1965
Greenbush Neighborhood Plan (Amended November 9, 2010)
GreenbushVilas Neighborhood Housing Revitalization Strategy Report
Regent StreetSouth Campus Neighborhood Plan Website
Regent Street-South Campus Neighborhood Plan (July 1, 2008)
Greenbush Neighborhood Plan (July 1, 2008)
Southwest Neighborhood Plan (January 22, 2008)
Publications: -Park Street Revitalization: Possibilities to Reality (July 2001)
South Metropolitan Planning Council

-Greenbush-Vilas Neighborhood: A Historic Walking Tour, 1991
http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/landmark/Greenbush%20Vilas%20Walking%20Tour.pdf

Historic Districts: Longfellow, Bowen
TIF Districts: None
Urban Design Districts: -Urban Design District 7: Madison General Ordinance Chapter 33.24(14)
http://www.municode.com/Resources/gateway.asp?pid=50000&sid=49

-Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 1 (March 2004)
http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/ParkStChapter%201.pdf

-Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 2 (March 2004)
http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/ParkStChapter%202.pdf

-Park Street Corridor Urban Design Guidelines: Chapter 3 (March 2004)
http://www.cityofmadison.com/planning/ParkStChapter%203.pdf

Governmental Officials
Madison Alderperson:
Dane County Supervisor:
State Representative:
State Senator:

Facilities and Services:
Community Centers Bayview International Center for Education and the Arts (601 Bay View), Neighborhood House (29 South Mills Street)
Fire Stations: Fire Station #4 (1437 Monroe Street)
Library: Central Library (201 West Mifflin Street), Monroe Street (1705 Monroe Street), South Madison (2222 South Park Street)
Neighborhood Resource Team:
Parks and Open Space:
(Map)
Brittingham Park and Beach, Edward Klief Park, Henry Vilas Park, Beach and Zoo, Lake Wingra
Police Districts:
Polling Place:
Public Schools: Elementary School Attendance Area 8
Franklin Elementary School (305 W Lakeside St)
Randall Elementary School (1802 Regent St)
Middle School Attendance Area 234
Hamilton Middle School (4801 Waukesha St)
High School Attendance Area 143
West High School (30 Ash St)