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' J rip DANE COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT Petition 7413: Anthony and Ellen Merlis Public Hearing Date: 11/24/98 Town of Verona Date of this report: 11/20/98 I. BACKGROUND A. Request Anthony and Ellen Merlis seek to rezone a total of 11.34 acres from the RH-3 zoning district to the RH-2 and RH-1 districts for three building lots. The proposed 6 acre RH-2 lot would contain the Merlises' existing home, with one 2.5 acre and one 2.8 acre RH-1 lots intended for new single family residences (see Map 1). B. History/Past Actions In 1979, when the town of Verona adopted A-1(ex) zoning, the Merlis property was part of a 137 acre farm parcel owned by Lerner Enterprises, Inc. Petition# 4484, approved by the County Board on October 3, 1989, rezoned the eastern 34 acres (on the east side of Timber Lane) to RH- 3. The associated Certified Survey Map (CSM# 5964) created two lots, one of which (the subject property) was sold to the Merlises. The other lot was sold to an unrelated party. It is not known if any agreement was reached regarding which landowner(s)retained rights for further subdivision under the town's density policy. Since then,-the Merlises have not divided the 11.34 acre parcel. Property from the original farm currently owned by other landowners,however, has been the subject of several petitions and/or land divisions. Petitions 6658 (approved by the County Board on October 17, 1996) and 7183 (approved by the County Board on August 11, 1998 and currently pending CSM approval) rezoned and reconfigured portions of the property to the east to the RH-2, RH-3 and Conservancy districts for single family residences and a private prairie preserve. C. Site/Locational Information The property is in the Town of Verona, in the northeast quarter of Section 6, immediately south of the Town of Middleton line. The property is approximately three miles west of the City of Madison and approximately four miles northwest of the City of Verona. The Merlises' home is on the eastern portion of what would be Lot 2 on the preliminary CSM. Single family residences border the site to the northeast, east and southwest, with agricultural uses,primarily grazing and pasture land, to the north, south and west. The Town of Verona Land Use Plan identifies the site's location as within an agricultural preservation area. D. Other federal, state or county approvals required A Certified Survey Map will be required, and a delayed effective date has been requested. County zoning and sanitary permits will be necessary before buildings can be constructed or occupied. Town building or driveway access permits may also be required.