The gripe that the city of Madison is somehow “anti-business” has been around since Vietnam War protesters were tossing bricks through storefront windows. So don’t expect a name change to suddenly transform the perception of those doing the complaining.
But the city is investing major time and resources into reorganizing its Department of Planning and Development into a slick, new “Department of Economic and Community Development.”
Quoted: Brian Ohm, a professor in the UW Department of Urban and Regional Planning