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DANE COUNTY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT STAFF REPORT Petition#7209: Batker et al Public Hearing Date:5/26/98 Town of Verona Date of this report: 10/22/98 I. BACKGROUND A. Request David Batker et al,are requesting to rezone 9.8 acres from the A-1(exclusive)district to the RH-2 and RH-1 districts to create a total of four lots on property in the Town of Verona. The northern 2.3 acres of this land(Lot 1 on the preliminary CSM)would be attached to 4 acres of RH-2-zoned land currently owned by Richard Craine. The other three 2.5-acre lots(Lots 2,3 & 4 on the preliminary CSM)would be zoned RH-1 and are intended for new single family residences. B. History/Past Actions The 9.8 acre A-1(ex)parcel that is the subject of this petition is apparently a legal, nonconforming parcel that was created before exclusive agricultural zoning was adopted. The original petition presented to the ZNR Committee at public hearing on 5/26/98 proposed the creation of two 4.9 acre parcels,both zoned RH-1. There is a 9/23/98 letter(see petition file) from Richard Craine requesting an amendment to the petition as described above. On October 7, 1998, after discussions with the applicant and with Mr. Craine,the Verona Town Board voted 4- 1 to recommend approval of the amended petition. C. Site/Locational Information The property is in the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of section 25, Town of Verona, on the eastern side of Shady Bend Road. The site is in a rural area, approximately 1.25 miles southeast of the City of Verona and a third of a mile west of the City of Fitchburg. The site is currently vacant and heavily wooded. There are no prime farm soils on the site, and the land does not appear to have been farmed in the past. Mr. Craine has a home on the property to the north that would become part of proposed Lot 1. The Shady Bend Subdivision, a 6-lot RH-2 zoned residential development, lies immediately across Shady Bend Road to the west. There are four RH-1 zoned lots to the south, separated from the Batker et al property by a roughly 200-foot wide A-1(ex) flag of woodlands. About seventeen RH-1 lots, all created by CSM, are along Davis Hill Drive on the other side of County Trunk Highway M to the southwest. About 200 feet of woodlands separate the property from agricultural fields to the east(see map). 1