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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 2 APPLICATION NO. STAFF COMMENTS REGIONAL PLANNING Petition 7187. This proposed commercial zoning for a supplemental electric generation station raises some policy concerns at this location in the Town of Middleton. This is an existing electrical substation site with two residences immediately to the east, several residences and a mini-warehouse business to the north, a mineral extraction site to the west, and farmland to the south. A tributary to the Black Earth Creek flows north to south between the site and the houses to the east. The relevant county adopted policy for this area is: "Only commercial uses clearly related to or needed to support agricultural production may be permitted in designated agricultural protection areas." You could rationalize that electricity is needed for agricultural production. A generating station for an electrical utility is not an ordinary commercial use. The existing substation site is fairly well screened from USH 14 by the railroad grade,trees, and shrubs. It is also fairly well screened visually from the adjacent residences by evergreen trees. However, sounds of the supplemental generating station will probably be more of an issue than visibility. The applicant will need to show how noise can be controlled and, if an agreeable solution can be found,there will need to be conditions on the rezoning: 4. Only the substation and supplemental electric generating station will be allowed in the area zoned C-2. 2. A site plan showing existing and proposed facilities as well as any proposed sound barrier. The site plan should also provide erosion control and potential fuel spill hazard safeguards since a tributary to the Black Earth Creek flows between the site and the houses to the east. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (septic, etc.) None DANE COUNTY HIGHWAY, None OTHER