Vaping Ban Takes Effect
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IRONMAN Wisconsin made it’s way through the hills and dales of Dane County on Sept. 8. The bicycling portion came through the western part of the county, including Cross Plains. For more photos, see page 10. VOL. 127, NO. 37 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 MIDDLETONTIMES.COM SINGLE COPY PRICE: $1.25 Fallout Continues Between Friends & Town By Kevin Murphy Vaping Ban Times-Tribune TOWN OF MIDDLETON– In another sign of the crum- bling relationship between the Friends of Pope Farm Conser- vancy and the town board, the Takes Effect Friends group said it will with- By Michelle Phillips draw from maintenance activi- Times-Tribune ties at the conservancy. In an August 15 letter from MIDDLETON–A Middleton city ordinance banning the use the Friends to the Town of of vape products where smoking is banned went into effect on Middleton board, the volunteer Sept. 6, just one day after Public Health of Madison and Dane group stated that: County (PHMDC) issued a health warning concerning the use “The Friends have had too of the devices. many differences with the The measure was proposed in Middleton by Alders Dan Town in recent years, and those Ramsey and Luke Fuszard in May, before 53 hospitalizations in differences have increased to Wisconsin and Illinois and five deaths around the nation were a point where the Friends no related to flavored, liquid vaping solution. All of the patients were longer wish to be involved with experiencing respiratory problems, and in many of the incidents the physical maintenance of the liquid was acquired on the street affecting both nicotine and the property and the interaction THC products. with the Town that it requires.” Ramsey said that he and Fuszard had a conversation about the Instead, the Friends want to electronic smoking devices in April. “We thought that given the concentrate on the educational negative health effects of vaping, that including it in our non- activities it has developed with Michelle Phillips-Times Tribune smoking ordinance would be a good idea. Luke and I co-spon- sored the ordinance change and referred it to L&O (Licensing and the Middleton-Cross Plains A family is silhouetted in the setting sun at Pope Farm Conservancy during Sunflower Area School District (MCPASD Ordinances) in May. At L&O assistant city attorney Matt Fleming Days. The Friends of Pope Farm Conservancy informed the Middleton town board they and the public at the 102-acre put together the language and included it in our Smoking Prohib- would no longer maintain the property. property on Old Sauk Rd. ited ordinance 6.09,” Ramsey said of the ordinance’s timeline. “(W)e believe working to prove the Conservancy to ad- won’t help maintain the five complete projects and activities “The License and Ordinance committee voted on the prohibi- help the school educate stu- vance its educational mission,” prairies that have been restored in progress. tion before the recent news of hospitalizations and deaths. We felt dents and teaching the public according to the unsigned letter since the town purchased the The Friends have built the even before the latest news that vaping was public safety concern will be very rewarding for our from the Friends board of direc- property from the Pope family conservancy into an education and needed our attention,” Ramsey added. membership. We will continue tors. in 2002, and other non-prairie to look at ways to help you im- Specifically, the Friends areas it has managed. It will See Friends, page 5 See Vaping, page 5 Airport Noise Riles Residents Council Defers Middleton Center By Kevin Murphy received a thorough airing at white Cirrus plane with blue Times-Tribune Phase Three for Parking Review last week’s Airport Commis- markings were identified as By Cameron Bren MIDDLETON–Complaints sion meeting. the planes that have allegedly Times-Tribune was concerned about the park- derground parking but that was about noise from airplanes Take offs and landings have buzzed houses near the airport ing plan. ruled out because of overall using the Middleton Municipal greatly increased to more than in retaliation for noise com- MIDDLETON–The Middle- “Thirty apartment units, 40 narrowness of the site. Airport, and explanations for it 38,000 annually during the past plaints. ton Common Council deferred bedrooms in those units and Burke said he also did not few years creating more noise Airport Manager Rich Morey approval of the finalized build- only 23 parking spots, does like how the revised building for nearby residents and in- said he hadn’t heard about a ing plan for phase three of Mid- anybody else see that as a con- plan called for parking stalls creasing their concerns. problem with the white Cirrus dleton Center amid contention cern,” Burke said. on the ground level inside the Two residents said that after before and there were about over proposed changes and the Director of Planning and building. making a complaint about air- five yellow-painted airplanes implementation of the overall Community Development Mayor Gurdip Brar said the plane noise, planes flew low hangered at the airport. development’s parking plan. Abby Attoun said because council must look at the total and loud over their property in “We’ll look into this,” he The revised building plan phase three would now only be number of parking stalls on the retaliation. said. submitted by developer T. Wall two buildings there is a one to development overall. A yellow airplane and a Also, the Federal Aviation Enterprises calls for two build- one parking ratio with the num- “I’m not going to ings instead of the originally Administration (FAA) and not ber of apartment units. park at your house to go stay at proposed three. The buildings airport has jurisdiction over Attoun acknowledged the my house and that’s what I see would be on Terrace Ave., one Table of Contents planes once they are airborne. one to one ratio is below the re- here,” Burke said. would be multifamily residen- “That’s a weak answer,” said quirement in city ordinance, but Adler Emily Kuhn said she tial and the other would be Local 1-3, 5-6, 11 commission member Cynthia noted that many recent projects felt comfortable with the park- mixed use with commercial Richson. “You have persuasive approved by the city have had ing because it was still on the space in the ground level. To- power.” a similar ratio. She added that same site. Opinion 4-5 gether the buildings would have Morey’s response also didn’t Madison uses a one to one ratio Alder Susan West said she a total of 65 units consisting of satisfy residents who said all and that Middleton should con- was worried residents would efficiencies, one and two bed- Cross Plains 7 pilots need to be told to “knock sider revising its requirement. end up taking up available rooms. As proposed Attoun said street parking. it off” and be considerate of the The plan also calls for residents near the airport. the plan would require ten- Attoun said staff were not County 10 changes to the parking plan ants of one building to have to concerned about the number of If Morey can identify an which would deactivate some park their vehicle in the build- parking stalls because there has offending aircraft, he said he lift and slide mechanisms that ing next door. Attoun said that been a surplus of stalls in phase Sports 12-18, 20 would share the complaint with were installed to meet the city’s could have been avoided if it one despite the building being Capitol Flight, a training and parking requirements in tight was possible to connect the nearly completely occupied. plane brokerage firm at the air- Legals 18-19 spaces and eliminating parking underground parking but be- She noted staff is concerned port, or a hanger owner associ- credits for bike parking, bus cause of underground utilities about the way stalls are being ated with the plane. Help Wanted 19 passes and community cars. it wasn’t. She said they also See Noise, page 6 Alder Robert Burke said he considered another level of un- See Council, page 6 PAGE 2 TIMES-TRIBUNE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2019 Palestine Trip Changes Middleton Women’s Lives By Katherine Perreth on a small family farm located The Israeli government’s glee of the teenage girls in the parks and beautiful homes, they Israeli government has not al- Times-Tribune in Canaan, she said, in a town policy of Palestinian home- family, she danced with Dunst said. Then came the disparity lowed permits for home repair MIDDLETON–Depending between Nazareth and Jerusa- demolition, land acquisition and the other American women. of the infrastructure in East or expansion since 1967. upon the speaker, a small chunk lem. and resettlement is opposed by “The girls laughed hysterically Jerusalem: dilapidated roads, In addition, their guide told of geography in Israel is known “It is said in Palestine that the many in Israel, and around the at us crazy, older ladies,” Dunst mounds of garbage and no them not to bother consulting as Palestine, the West Bank, or olive tree lives forever,” Dunst globe, by people of many faiths said. public playgrounds. The guide Google Maps for routes in East the Occupied Territories. It is said. “Some of the trees in that Dunst couldn’t help but think Yet, her mood changed as explained garbage trucks can- Jerusalem: those streets don’t a land historically fought over grove were hundreds of years of her own sons, one of whom Dunst toured more of the coun- not make it through most roads, exist on that site.