Madison's First City Pool

Madison's first city pool opened June 12, 2006 in Goodman Park (formerly Franklin Field). This page is mostly about the process the neighborhood underwent and is quickly becoming dated. The City has information about the pool on their website (hours, fees, classes, etc.).

The first neighborhood meeting was held December 7, 2004 and was well attended. The majority of people were in favor of the pool.

Pool graphic The city has analyzed the input gathered from the first meeting, and generated a new graphic which was presented at the second (February 3) meeting. Here are two versions of it:

Compressed (lower quality), cropped, and shrunk, it takes 45 seconds to download over a 56K modem.
The original file, unaltered, it takes 5 minutes to download over a 56K modem.

Current versions of Internet Explorer and Netscape both support expanding/shrinking the graphic, which you might need to view the details (unless you have a huge monitor).

Overall, people at the second meeting seemed very satisified with the plan. There were several suggestions made, including:

Move the weiner-shaped lot more towards the "driveway" (extension of Colby) so there are two entrances to the parking, instead of just the one on Olin.
Make the soccer field for youth, which would free up general park space for use by neighbors.

The city will consider these and other ideas that came up at the meeting.

Here are some relevant newspaper articles, most recent first. There are more; search for all articles with the words "pool goodman" in the Cap Times/Wisconsin State Journal.

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