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DANE COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT SUPPLEMENTAL STAFF REPORT Petition No. 7370—Halverson Work Meeting Date:Tuesday, 11/10/98 The information contained in this report is intended to act as a supplement to information provided in this petition's original staff report prepared for the 10/27/98 ZNR public hearing. A map of the subject area is included here as Attachment A. I. Remaining Splits The density study (Attachment B) associated with this petition indicates that the original farm at the time the town land use plan was adopted on August 15, 1981 was 135.69 acres. According to the town land use plan,this acreage would allow 4 splits: 135.69/35 = 3.88;the town has a rounding policy,-so the resulting number was rounded up to 4 splits. The density study indicates that there previously have been three splits from the original farm — per CSMs 6454, 8698, and 2099 — leaving one split yet to be used. However, CSM 2099 was recorded on July 20, 1976,prior to adoption of the town plan, so this CSM does not count toward the splits. CSM 8698 was for the original Strang farmstead: Although not stated in the town land use plan,the town of Black Earth has established the policy precedent of not counting CSMs of the original farmsteads against the splits allowed from the original farm. Based on this reasoning,the town has stated that they believe there to be three splits remaining on the Halverson property(Attachment C). To further complicate matters, there is also the issue of the Turk property to the south to which the Halversons plan to join Parcel B. The Town Chair has verbally indicated to Department of Planning and Development staff that the Turks intend to convey a split(i.e. a potential building site)to the Halversons. II. Access Road In regard to access, the Town Chair has verbally indicated that he does not favor the Committee's model private road agreement. According to the Town Chair, there are two alternatives that would be more desirable to the town than allowing the private road to operate under the Committee's model agreement. The most desirable option for the town would simply be to allow access via a private road, independent of the Committee's model road agreement. An option more desirable to the Town Chair than the former and less desirable than the latter would be to make this access road into a public, town road. Since the Town Chair does not favor the Committee's model private road agreement, and the Committee is not likely to favor a private road without an established maintenance agreement, it seems as though a possible compromise would be to create a public town road. However,the road has already been constructed, and it would need to be inspected by the town to determine if the road meets the town's minimum roadway standards. H:\ZON NG\ZNR\COMPREPT\98-RPTS\7370.sup.doc Page 1 of 2 11/5/98