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STATEMENT Rezone Petition No 1312_ The applicant requests a two parcel land division and a change of the zoning classification to RH-1 Rural Homes. The applicant requests that the rezoning take effect within ninety (90) days of rezoning approval when the proposed land division is approved. The proposed land division and rezone will create a separate 1.56 acre parcel to be used as an adult family home for less than nine (9) adults transitioning back to the community from traumatic brain injury related accidents and a separate 1.56 acre parcel that may be used for a residence for the applicant's children. It is intended that occupancy of the adult family home parcel will occur no later than October 1, 1998. No timetable has been established for constructing a residence on the other parcel.. This parcel is one of two parcels created on January 3, 1980,by the division of a 5.72 acre remnant of the farm once known as the Albert Stoppleworth Farm. Tho Stoppleworth Farm was split by and straddled U.S. Highway 14 as follows. Substantially all of the productive farmland and the barn and sheds formerly laid north of Highway 14. Approximately 5.72 acres of nonproductive farmland and a house formerly laid south of U.S. Highway 14. The part of the Stoppleworth Farm lying to the north of U.S. Highway 14 was sold off for residential development and was platted as Oak Valley Estates. The 5.72 acre remnant of the Stoppleworth Farm lying to the south of U.S. Highway 14 was sold to Cyril and Caroline Virnig by the Estate of Albert Stoppleworth in 1982. Prior to both the effective date of A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning coverage and the time this remnant was sold to the Virnigs, this remnant was not suitable for farming. The topsoil was stripped from this remnant and it was quarried during the late 1970's. Prior to the effective date of A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning district, this parcel was neither eligible nor suitable for A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning under the applicable statutes and ordinances and, accordingly, should have been excluded from A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning district. This parcel should have been rezoned out of A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning district to allow rural development instead of covered by blanket A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning. If this parcel should not have been included in or covered by blanket A-1 Exclusive Agriculture zoning, it follows that land use policies and standards applicable to agricultural land preservation are inappropriate and irrelevant to dividing and rezoning this parcel. 520' • "1—z-48