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Members of the Dane Co. Planning Committee I ask that this statement be ntered into the record of your proceedings. There are three major items to be include. First, a number of correctives to the information in the staff report. Second, a nurnber of items in response to Primrose Township board. Third, a site plan map of they proposed project. To the staff report: Paragraph I. Background. I', am indeed listed as agent on the application, for the purposes of making this presentation. However, the golf course is a family business. My wife Judith and Mrs. 'Carolyn Jennrich are sisters. Arthur and Carolyn Jennrich, my wife and myself, as well as the two adult sons of Arthur and Carolyn have been actively involved in the planning and implementation of this endeavor. These parties will be the principals in any corporate structure formed. No other funding source, silent partner, lender or corploration is involved in any manner in this project. Please also note that the Dane Co property is integral to the design of the first nine holes as well as the potential', for additional holes. Holes #5,#6, and #7 have portions in Dane Co. Even though tone of them are entirely in Dane Co. Since these are holes of considerable length, loss of the use of the Dane Co property for the golf course would significantly diminish the design. This is particularly true since #6 is a "signature hole" of striking physica' beauty. It uses a long narrow valley, beginning high in Primrose, crossing a corner Of Montrose and ending in Exeter. Paragraph II. The property in question is not completely bounded by farmland as indicated in the staff report. The area immediately to the north is rural residential land division. While substantially open ground currently, it has not been farmed in many years, both because it was in CRP previously, and because it is now homesite for the current owners. There is a farm stead to the east, across Argue Rd. owned by the Hageman family. It is at the top of the steep rocky hill which borders Argue Rd. and in addition is separated from Argue Rd. by the residential property owned by Vilas Payne. There are no farm drives located on Argue Rd. for the portion fronting the golf course in either Dane or Green Cou ties. In fact, there are no farm drives north of the Jennrich property all the way to highway 69. There are three residential drives from the east, one in Dane two just insid the Green Co line, fronting on the course. Two serve individual residences, the other serves a small rural subdivision. Four more residential drives enter Argue Rd. north of the course. The land to the south is currently under cultivation by Mr. Jennrich as crop land but has been already authorized for use as a golf course y Green Co. Immediately southeast of the Green Co. portion of the proposed course, 's a rural residential subdivision. The road serving this enters Argue Rd. more than 50 feet south from the Jennrich driveway. A second rural residential subdivision enters Argue Rd. approximately a half mile further south. Paragraph Ill. The "intermittent stream" indicated in Montrose by the staff report cannot be identified or defined by observation. The whole of the valley area has been under cultivation for corn or soybeans for at least the past 20 years. There is no