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July 22,2014 Dane County Zoning Committee Re: Parcel 060835385014, 7 acres, proposed zoning RH-2, and Parcel 060835380804, 27 acres, proposed zoning RH-4 My wife and I own both parcels, the larger one surrounds the smaller one on three sides. We request that both parcels be zoned as RH-2. We believe that a consistent zoning of the entire property would allow flexibility in creating building lots in this part of the Township which is already mostly residential. We hope to create three buildable lots of four to seven acres each, for upscale housing, all fronting on Black Cherry Court. We have had several discussions with the Town of Verona Administrator, and the Town Planning Commission We would expect the township to support our efforts to add three more lots but we have not started formal approval process to add lots pending final decisions and recommendations by the Township to the Dane County Board. We hope that a favorable zoning decision by the county might simplify the process for us. We declined to participate with our neighbor in selling buildable lots along Black Cherry Court about 12 years ago as the timing was wrong . Now, at 74 and 78 years old, the timing is appropriate for us. We have held this land for investment for 37 years. There are currently seven up-scale homes accessed by Black Cherry Court. We would be adding three more. Our land is not a viable farm and we no longer live in a farming area. The infrastructure elements of Township road, electrical service, telephone and natural gas services are all in place. Our land is an island. We hope to fill in three more lots along the RH-3 homes on our West and Southern property boundaries. Scheidegger Forest County Park is on our Northwest boundary; Rh-2 houses are on our North and Northeast boundaries and one RH-1 home and a business, a country tavern, are to our East. There is also one agriculture parcel between us and the RH-1 home and tavern. Houses are located across the road from the house and tavern. We believe that RH-2 zoning provides us with our best opportunity to design three saleable low density rural lots. We would combine the remainder of the land with our present home site, hoping that might make it also more saleable in our remaining four to five year planning horizon. Our home is not on the same financial plane as our adjacent neighbors. We heat our home with wood and the remaining wood land would continue serving that purpose. Should Dane County be unwilling to grant us RH-2 zoning, then we request RH-3 zoning for the larger parcel, or both parcels. We have sufficient acreage to meet the eight acre minimum requirement for four RH-3 lots, including our present home site. But, we have observed that owners with this much land tend to maintain less than their full acreage. Than_t< ou for considering our request. K • ji � Sharon and Jim Berkner Li''