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February 27, 1999 Dane County Zoning Committee Planning&Development 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Madison, WI 53703 RE: Petition 7109 Applicant: Keuler(Street) Township: Berry Dear Committee Members: This petition has been denied three times by the Zoning committee. This was deferred at the Dane County Board level in November 1998. At that time Veni Wendt said maybe some money could be made available from the new fund from Kathleen Falk to buy land development rights. Since this has not been even looked at, perhaps this petition should be delayed until a later date. Mel Bankes said it would be a good idea to come back to the Berry town board so it could be reviewed by them, for the Keulers and the citizens to see what could be worked out. However, at the January 1999 meeting the board only looked at • permitting a town road to be built for the Keulers development. The citizens concerns were not even addressed or looked at. SAFTEY has been a major concern from the beginning and has not been looked at. The driveway will still access HWY 19 on a sharp curve. There have been several accidents on that curve in the last several years. The citizens have wanted an independent traffic engineer to check the safety of this driveway coining onto the state road, but the town board does not want to address this issue. The driveway has not moved much since the first drawing was done. There also seems to be a question that there may not even be a town road permit from the state highway department to access Hwy 19. The citizens also asked that a pre assessment tax be done a head of time to check out if the cost of adding these homes would break even, or if it was going to cost the present citizens more money. Again this was not looked at and nothing was done about it. The Keulers and their attorneys have implied to come up with a plan to hide the houses from the park, but I am afraid this may not be accomplished that way. Perhaps Mr. Keuler could change his plan from four developments, to two developments closer to the bottom of the hill and still remain hidden from the park. The certified survey really does not change the driveway location that much. The acreage has changed, but does not have the exact area of the house pad locations on it. Regarding this re-zoning petition, please take into the consideration the Dane County Park Commission's sincere interest in purchasing the land south of Highway 19 to add to the park. Also note the Park Commission may be interested in the land(property)to the north/west of Hwy 19, along with the potential use for a portion of the land to be set aside for the Ice Age Trail. Sincerely, fr3 /714/7 /9' ' Lfo5 5 �'%an5 /,//