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Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee November 7, 1998 Page 2 customer base that we have worked so hard for years to build and cultivate in the Christiana/Cambridge area. Further, NAPA Auto Parts serves a wide area including Rock, Jefferson and Dane Counties. We serve farm uses and trucking uses as well as auto. NAPA Auto Parts is the only source in this wide area for serving these farm, trucking, and auto customers. More than half of our business is rural related. Our Christiana/Cambridge location is established in the core of our customer base. Our business is simply not suitable in a downtown area (such as the Village of Cambridge) or an area outside of Christiana/Cambridge. We need a peripheral rural area for truck access to our business and to accommodate our primary customer base. To this end, for the last two years, we have actively looked for an existing commercial building or a vacant site already zoned for commercial use in the Christiana/Cambridge area that would accommodate our existing business as well as possible expansion needs in the future. We need an approximately two acre site to accommodate these needs. We have not found any existing commercial building or site already zoned commercial in the Christiana/Cambridge area that accommodates our needs. In fact, the Village of Cambridge Long-Range Plan / 1998 ("Long Range Plan") indicates that there is a total of two acres of all commercially zoned vacant (undeveloped) land in the Village. Long Range Plan, at 18.1 Those two acres are not one parcel and none of those parcels are suitable for our existing needs or would leave room for us to expand. The parcel proposed for rezoning that is before you meets all the needs of our business. We do not exaggerate when we say that a denial of the proposed rezoning might well mean the end of our NAPA Auto Parts business in the Town of Christiana/Village of Cambridge area. If that were to occur, our customers in this wide service area would be deprived of their only source in this area. Staff Comments On The Proposed Rezoning The Staff Comments regarding the proposed rezoning reveal issues concerning compliance with town/county policies, communication with the Village of Cambridge on its Long Range Plan, approved access from the Highway I Copies of all pages of the Long Range Plan that are cited in this letter are enclosed herewith for your reference convenience.