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Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee and Dane County Board Follow up comments regarding zoning petition 7195. I A.v e_, The basis of the objection to our rezoning is based on false characterizations and faulty reasoning. 1. Under current Al Exclusive Zoning we are allowed to use this land for agricultural uses including roadside stands. A greenhouse operation also falls under this zoning. 2. Under R-3 zoning(our house parcel)we are allowed to operate a home occupation as per 10.01(25). This is done currently out of the house. 3. What we are excluded from doing is to locate the office in an accessory building or to resell products not produced on the farm. It is for these activities that we seek the zoning change to C-1. 4. No activity will take place at this site which cannot now in essence take place. We can have an office at this site(our house) and we can set up to sell greenhouse grown plants, cut flowers or vegetables produced on the farm. 5. This land currently has no deed restriction on it because of an apparent error at Dane County Zoning. The previous owner agreed to deed restrict the remaining farmland to not allow further residential development on the farm this was before we purchased this property and we had no involvement in it. The restriction was inappropriately placed upon the 6.4 acres we purchased and not the remaining farm. Dane County Zoning is in the process of correcting this. 6. It has been stated that there is concern that this will change the rural character. It is curious that the Gottschalks are concerned about an agricultural based business changing the rural character but voiced no opposition to a Wisconsin Electric Substation being built there in 1994. Enclosed is a map showing where that construction was proposed along with information from the Public Hearings, which the Public Service Commission held in Marshall. You will not see the Gottschalks name listed in these documents opposing this project. Nor will you find any other the other people who signed the Gottschalks petition. If any change in this area has changed the rural character it was the construction of the Gottschalk house on a hill in the middle of a farm field. We openly spoke out against this and this we believe is the real basis for the Gottschalks current opposition. 7. It is obvious that the Gottschalks have no idea what I do for a living. They have written that most of my business is in Madison and that I should look there for an office. My Appraisal activities are limited to work as a municipal assessor. I currently work for nine municipalities in Jefferson, Sheboygan, Sauk, Green and Dane Counties. I commute extensively to carry out my business. I do not work in Madison at all as they have a full time assessment office.