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Crf .i)PV • Town of Blooming Grove Plan Commission 717 1880 S. Stoughton Road Madison WI 53716 D Lt r 3 : . 608/223-1104 l Fax Fax 608/223-1106 , JAN 6 1999 1.1 , Dece 18, 1998 D.C. PLANNING & TO: Dane County Planning Department ZONING DIVISION Dane County Zoning Administrator Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee RE: C.U.P. #1524 The Plan Commission of the Town of Blooming Grove is reviewing the Conditional Use Permit (C.U.P.) application #1524 for expansion of a mineral extraction operation and a new concrete batch plant at 4235 County Highway AB in the Town of Blooming Grove. We have not completed the review, but the following comments are submitted for your consideration. These comments—and citizen concerns—have not been rendered irrelevant by the withdrawal of the application. Indeed, they are of even more importance and urgency since with withdrawal serves to: 1) exclude the Town from the review process; 2) has blocked the Town's oversight role; and, 3) prevents the Town from ensuring that the guidelines of its own land use plan are followed. More than thirty (30) Town citizens appeared at the Town's Public Hearing on November 4, 1998 and expressed opinions opposed to the proposal. More than ninety (90) residents of the City of Madison signed a petition opposing the mineral extraction operation and batch plant. The proposed mineral extraction and concrete batch plant are located within one-half mile or less of a Town residential area. It is also across Buckeye Road from Richmond Hills in the City of Madison. The C.U.P. site is also within the Blooming Grove Drumlin Area (1991 Dane County Greenspace Plan). This site is designated as a resource protection area in the Town's 1992 land use plan and is considered an important potential resource protection and recreational use area by the Town, the County and City of Madison (Cottage Grove Neighborhood Development Plan, 1992). The Town views as problematic the County's 1969 designation of the area as a non- conforming use for mineral extraction. While this designation may have been wise land use planning 30 years ago, conditions, sensibilities and land use planning goals seem to be different today and may require a reconsideration of this blanket designation. We ask that the County review and reconsider this non-conforming mineral extraction designation in general and at this site in particular. In addition to this procedural and policy quibble, the Town and its citizens have substantive concerns. These include issues of dust, noise, visual degradation, the impacts of