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11. Common sense dictates that requiring a small island of agriculture only zoning be maintained within a non agricultural mixed use environment is neither wise policy nor just governance. The Belleville to New Glarus corridor along State highway 69 cannot currently reasonably be described as anything other than predominantly rural residential, particularly on the portion immediately adjacent to the proposed course. That reality was recognized by both Montrose and Primrose townships in their deliberations. Indeed the most vocal critic of our proposal within the Primrose board recognized that the Primrose parcel would be virtually inaccessible for agricultural use, and is not expandable. 12. If private individuals are to be encouraged to provide recreational, wildlife refuge, and prairie restoration functions within their land holdings, they must be allowed the means to generate an income from that land which will allow such publicly beneficial usage. 13. There is a well publicized attempt by Dane Co. to acquire lands for recreation, open space preservation, and limitation of residential development. How would it make sense to block private efforts to the same goal? Particularly, as those efforts do not cost the County capital funds, do enhance the tax base, and are in keeping with the land use practices of surrounding land holders. 14. Per our written request in the materials submitted to staff and committee in May 1998 and my fillip verbal requests made on the occasions of two visits to the Dane Co. Zoning office in March and April of 1999, the issue of the "intermittent stream" raised in the staff comments document prepared for the meeting of 5/26/98 has been addressed by a determination that no waterway exists which would trigger any of the Dane Co. shore land regulations. We have received a written confirmation of that finding, a copy of which, I presume, is now part of our permanent file in your office.