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• DATE: December 2, 1998 TO: Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committe Chairwoman Helen Johnson and Committee Members FROM: J. Robert Burull RE: Response to Objection by Rodney and Kathy Dahlen to Zoning Petition Request # 7389 Thank you for allowing me to appear at the November 24th County Public Hearing regarding my above petition. I have read the undated Dahlen objection circulated November 24, 1998, by Ms. Kathy Dahlen and signed by her husband, Rodney. My response to the Dahlen document is that the content fairly well reflects Mr. Dahlen's representations to both the Town of Pleasant Springs Planning Commission and later the Town Board. The Planning Commission after hearing Mr. Dahlen's objection voted 5 to 2 to give a preliminary approval to my request. The following week, the Pleasant Springs Town Board, after listening to objections from Dahlen and the two dissenting members of the Planning Commission, tabled the matter until the following meeting to allow the Town Board members to visit the site. At the following Town Board meeting, members again listened to Mr. Dahlen's objections as they are contained within his written document presented to the County. The Town Board, all of whom had visited the site, had studied the mix of tillable and untillable land, had considered Mr. Dahlen's objections including the site's distance from a creek waterway to the east (there is no waterway on the site), and then voted to give the Burull's preliminary approval on a four to one basis. Mr. Dahlen's objections seem to center around a perceived injustice based on the Town not giving him the right to build on a small clearing ("approximately 0.75 acre field" as stated in his letter) -- mistakenly using that example as a precedent to support his objections. Dahlen's objections and representations, however, as noted in his document, para #3, are in fact, misrepresentations as the following historical record will clarify: (see attached documents for the next 3 items.) 1 . Pleasant Springs Planning Commission minutes dated 2/12/92, Para #1 : "Burull asked by Commission...to rework the survey to include only wooded acres in the rezoning." 2. Pleasant Springs Planning Commission minutes dated 2/27/92, Para # 1 : "Motion made by R. Green to recommend division of land and zoning as follows: Lot #1 --3 acres RH1 plus 2 acres AZ with deed restriction prohibiting any building structures on the AZ parcel. Lot # 2--approx. 4 acres RH2." Motion passed.