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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 2 APPLICATION NO. • STAFF COMMENTS ZONING REVIEW 1. 7293 John&Julia Bailey(J. Timothy Lovett, agent), Sun Prairie 32 RH-1 to C-1 Rezone a 70'x112' area(0.18 acres)to allow a"small machine shop [operated] solely by ourselves. No employees." The Bailey's would acquire an easement to share the driveway of an existing business located on C-2 zoned land immediately West of their property. They would build a new shop building(and eliminate an existing shed.) The remainder of the Bailey's parcel,on which their home is located,would continue as RH-1 (2.0 acres.) Note: This parcel may lie within the Protection Area for the Village of Cottage Grove Wellhead. REGIONAL PLANNING Petition 7293. This proposed machine shop business is within the Unsewered Development District of the adopted town/county plan in the Town of Sun Prairie. The relevant policy is: "Commercial Development Purpose: To encourage the location of commercial uses which will provide goods and services to the area in a convenient, safe and attractive manner. Policies:To prevent strip commercial development along roadways; To provide for commercial development that is compatible with adjacent land uses; • To plan commercial development at convenient highway- oriented locations. To zone only that portion of land necessary for the contemplated use when rezoning is required." Staff Comment: - This is clearly not strip commercial since it is at the back of a rural residential lot, with access proposed through the commercially zoned area to the west. - There is judgment involved in determining whether this is a compatible land use. The site being rezoned is on a rural residential lot,with the owner's house on-site. There are single family homes and duplexes to the north and east. The lot to the south is vacant, but clearly zoned for residential use. The large area to the west is zoned C-2 Commercial which permits many intensive commercial and industrial uses. There are existing mini-warehouses immediately to the west and a communication tower to the southwest. Thus,this proposed machine shop is encroaching into a residential area,but is adjacent to a commercially zoned area with existing commercial uses.