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COMPOSITE REPORT -Page 2 Application No. 7201/1496 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS I. BACKGROUND A. The applicant is requesting rezoning of 7.5 acres from LC-1 and A-2 to C-1 to allow for limited research and development of biotechnology equipment. Rezoning to C-1 will also require a CUP for the existing residence and for limited agricultural use. B. The subject property is in the Town of Mazomanie, over 2 miles northeast of the Village of Mazomanie. C. The portion of the property currently zoned LC-1 has been zoned that way since 1987, and was used as a landscape business in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The portion now zoned A-2 was zoned as such in 1980 and contains the existing residence. Limited research and development has been conducted on site for the past 3 or 4 years. II. ANALYSIS A. The 7.5 acre subject property is a former farmstead which contains a single family residence, a barn, a grainery, and a couple of smaller storage buildings. In 1987, after a portion of the property was zoned LC-1, a 1,200 sq. ft. office building was built for a landscaping business. The buildings are all located at least 500 feet from Wilkinson Road. The property is between two large,wooded hills and not close to other development. B. The existing small business use of the property requires C-1 Commercial zoning. The applicant intends to sell the subject property to the current tenant. The tenant has been occupying the residence and operating a "home office" on site for a business located in Sauk Prairie. The business develops computers and robots which assist in DNA sequencing analysis. The tenant/prospective owner keeps a DNA analysis machine and computer for testing within the office building on the subject property. He also stores computers, machinery, and robot components in the barn. No new buidlings, signage, employees beyond the owner, or expansion of the commercial use on the property are proposed. Further, according to the applicant, no hazardous chemicals or genetic materials are or will be stored on the property. C. Rezoning to C-1 would make the existing residence a nonconforming use, and would not permit any agricultural use of the property. (The current tenant may wish to keep one or two horses.) However, such uses are conditional uses in the C-1 disrtict. Therefore, the applicant has also applied for a CUP. D. The Town of Mazomanie has approved the proposed rezoning and CUP. The Town advises the following conditions of rezoning approval (words in [] are mine): 1. C-1 uses [limited to] 10.13(1)(m) for DNA analyzing and 10.13(1)(c) for warehousing. [Section 10.13(1)(c) and (m) list "warehousing and storage incidental