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Argue Rd. It would be fully a mile to the back portion. It is the current plan for the golf course corporation to hold a right of first refusal for the eventual purchase of this parcel. 55 acres could hold an additional 9 holes, should development of 27 holes be desirable in the distant future. Af any rate, the course itself is best served by maintaining a buffer around itself to avoid trespass, vandalism, etc. It is simply not true that golf courses are primarily suburban not rural uses. There are literally thousands of golf Courses all over the United States which were built in rural areas and have remained rural. Additional thousands are part of small towns. It is true that to be viable as businesses, golf courses must have a critical population mass to serve. Most of these coyirses start as nine hole courses and remain so. However, the reality of most courses developed by private individuals and groups, rather than by megabucks corporations or governmental entities is that the cost of suburban land is simply prohibitive) The association of suburban golf courses with housing is most often because that is the only way to amortize the cost of the land in suburban areas. While it might seem reasonable to expect housing development pressure from the presence of a golf course, that is not demonstrably the case without additional demographic, social, and economic factors. In point of fact, the greatest single factor in the development of the existing subdivisions on Argue Rd. in Green Co. as well as those surrounding New Glarus, Monticello and south of Belleville appears to have been the perception of difficulty hn finding appropriately sized and priced rural residential parcels in Dane Co, because of restrictive zoning. Until very recently there has not been housing developed adjacent to the Edelweiss course south of New Glarus. I would guess that the sale Of lots there now is part of an overall business plan to reduce course debt incurred in their recent major expansion of facilities. I cannot think of any of the new permanent', residents along Argue Rd. who do not currently work in Madison, or its suburbs! Weymont Run, a nine hole rural course, with which I am familiar in north central Wisconsin, because it is close to my childhood home, has occupied approximately 55 acres of'what was farmland for over 20 years now without generating housing development. There are no additional demographic, social, or economic factors which are present to propel such development. A final factor militating against housing development in conjunction with the course is the fact that there are over 200 currently platted or CSM lots available within New Glarus township for building. I do not have the figures for Exeter, but I believe they are likely to be similar. My conversations with local officials and with local surveyors have indicated that thesel plats and CSM divisions have mostly occurred as a result of fear of zoning restrictioris similar to those in Dane Co. being imposed in Green. I mention this not to provoke some sort of debate about development policy, but simply to identify what the ehvironment has become in northern Green Co. Depending on perspective, Green Co has either received the gift of Dane Co.'s rejected development or the problerrji of it. The net result of this for Argue Rd. is that there are now no operating dairy farms on Argue Rd between State 69 and Green Co. W. There are no animal operations, period. The bulk of the farming that remains is conducted as part of large farm grain operations. One of the neighbors was recently offered in excess of $200,000.00 for 80 acres fronting Argue Rd. Mercifully, he had the means to be able •