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• . COMPOSITE REPORT-Page 3 Application No. 7096 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS I. BACKGROUND A. The applicant is requesting rezoning of 4.9 acres from C-2 to C-1, and a CUP for 8.9 acres including the rezoned area to allow development of a combined multiple family residential and retail project. Multiple family residences are conditional uses in the C-1 district, while retail uses are permitted uses. B. The subject property is in the Town of Windsor, between the historic hamlet of Windsor and a highway commercial area near the interchange of STH 19 and I-90/94. It is within the Windsor Urban Service Area and Lake Windsor Sanitary District. C. The portion of the property currently zoned C-1 has been zoned that way since the early 1960s. The property currently zoned C-2 was rezoned in 1986 with a deed restriction that "use of the property shall be restricted to the sale and repair of agricultural equipment." II. ANALYSIS A. Most of the 4.9 acres of the subject property currently zoned C-2 is being used for storage of trucks and equipment, generally within metal pole buildings. Most of the portion of the property currently zoned C-1 is undeveloped, aside from two garage-type buildings. B. The applicant is proposing a mixed use project for the subject property combining multiple family residences and neighborhood retail uses. The site plan included as Exhibit A and elevations shown in Exhibit B illustrate the development plans. The applicant proposes two buildings close to CTH CV which would include a total of 12,800 sq. ft. of retail space on the first floors (street frontage side). The other sides of the first floors and the second floor of each of these two buildings would be used for two bedroom apartments (40 total). The remainder of the development is proposed to include five two- story buildings with 16 two-bedroom multiple family units each. The entire project would therefore include a total of 120 units (13.5 units per acre). Each of the buildings would contain underground parking, roughly at a ratio of two spaces per residential unit. Commercial and visitor parking would also be provided. The proposal envisions a circulation network which would include three access points on CTH CV. C. The DNR Wisconsin Wetlands Inventory shows perhaps one to two acres of wetlands on the northeast edge of the subject property, behind the current metal storage h--'" ?s (see Exhibit C). Under County shoreland-wetland regulations, develor- tially prohibited within mapped wetland areas. It appears that all 'sed buildings shown in the site plan are within this mapped w'-'" 'nt would be allowed in this area, it would have to '- _y district. For that to be considered, the apr"' e; and/or DNR staff to confirm that the land is not, 1