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February 28, 1998 Mr.John Sales Land Use Committee Town of Montrose 6555 Purcell Road Belleville, WI Dear John: Attached you will find a modified request for rezoning the property at the corner of Paoli and Speedway Roads that went before the Town of Montrose Land Use Committee on February 23, 1998. The modification corrects the technical error we made in our original request. The original proposal asked that a 1 acre portion of the A-1 Exclusive portion of this parcel be rezoned to RH-1. Unfortunately county zoning regulations require that RH-1 parcels be at least 2 acres. On the other hand, R-1A parcels can be as small as 1/2 acre. Because R-1 A restrictions on land use are even more restrictive than those called for in RH-1, we are in effect asking for less than the Montrose Land Use Committee approved in the meeting on February 23. We are asking that the Town of Montrose Board approve the resolution adopted by the Land Use Committee on February 23,modified to correct the technical error in the original request. You've told me there is some sentiment on the board favoring the alternative we submitted to the Land Use Committee on February 23. The alternative asked for a rezoning of the parcel to A-2 and a 2 acre portion to RH-1. The committee considered approving this proposal subject to deed restrictions limiting the A-2 portion to A-1 Exclusive use. Unfortunately,we are facing a March 2 deadline for application to Dane County Zoning,a date one day before the Board meeting. To submit the application,we are required to provide a meets and bounds description of the residential parcel to be rezoned. The combination of the fee for the zoning request and the survey work is approximately$350. We are submitting our application based on the resolution approved by the Land Use Committee. Should the Town of Montrose Board revert to our alternative request,our request will be delayed an additional 30 days at the county level and we will be forced to re-incur the application fee and redo the survey work. It is my hope that you will support the modified version of the attached request at the Board Meeting on March 3. The Land Use Committee also expressed a desire in the resolution passed on February 23 that we work out a long-term arrangement with the Salsiburys allowing supplemental use of the dirt road crossing the Statz property to their farm immediately to the North of the Statz property. I met with Brain and Marie Salisbury on the evening of Wednesday,February 23`d. We discussed terms that we both seemed to consider to fairly allow supplementary and emergency access to their property while preserving my rights to the property I hope to purchase. Our attorneys talked Friday and my wife talked to Marie Friday afternoon. It is our hope that we'll have a written agreement by the March 3 Board Meeting. Of course this agreement will be contingent on the approval of rezoning and my purchase of the property. John,thanks again for the time you have put into working with me on this request. Regardless of what happens at the Town Board, I appreciate your honesty and help in working with me on this request. Sincerely, Thomas A. Farin