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Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee November 7, 1998 Page 5 Not only is the consistency of the proposed rezoning with relevant town/county policies supported by the Town Plan Commission and Town Board and by the Town, the County and Regional Planning Staff based on the previous rezonings, but the Village of Cambridge and its Long Range Plan itself supports the interpretation that the proposed rezoning is consistent with relevant town/county policies. The Long Range Plan emphasizes that coordination with other governmental jurisdictions and agencies is important in implementing its planning goals. Long Range Plan, at 52. The Long Range Plan expressly plans all of the lands immediately adjacent to proposed commercial parcel and to the East and South of the proposed commercial parcel to be used for commercial purposes. The proposed commercial parcel is in the Village's planned primary trade area. See Minutes (9/14/98) of Village Plan Commission (Statement of Dan Bilstad, Village Plan Commission Member). For example, the Long Range Plan provides in pertinent part: The Development Plan proposes commercial development to occur in concentrated "nodes' as opposed to encouraging further ``strip" commercial. The area in the NW & SW quadrants of USH 12/18 and STH 134 is strategically located within the Cambridge primary trade area. . . . . . . At the intersection of USH 12/18 and STH 134 in the SW, NW and NE portions of the node, it is proposed that highway commercial uses be developed. These uses are those that typically service the needs of the entire community and larger trade areas and not necessarily those of nearby neighborhoods. . . . Long Range Plan, at 43. It is apparent that the Long Range Plan, by explicitly planning the lands along USH 12/18 (to the North and South) and West of STH 134 (at least right up to the proposed commercial parcel) for commercial uses, does not interpret such commercial development as "strip" commercial. The location of a commercial parcel—the proposed commercially rezoned parcel contiguous to a planned commercial district within the Village should not upset that interpretation. In addition, given the subject parcel's location along U.S.H. 12 & 18 and its relatively small size and irregular shape, the subject parcel is really, as a practical matter, no longer suited for agricultural purposes. As reflected in both the Town