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COMPOSITE REPORT-Page 2 Application Rezoning 6903 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS L Background A. The request is for a change of 41.2 acres to R-1 zoning. The applicant is a Limited Partnership proposing to expand the Carriage Ridge project which is currently under development west of the proposed rezoning. This property is currently zoned A-2 and a small area of A-1 Ex by action on zoning petition 5748 which has a restrictive covenant that limits the property to horse boarding and/or riding stable. Action on this petition will render these past petitions and restrictive covenant void. B. The site is located north of CTH M and east of Woodland Drive along a tributary to Six Mile Creek which drains into Lake Mendota. This rezoning is directly west of Carriage Ridge Addition. C. The project needs two approvals prior to rezoning. One is a change in the Farmland Preservation Plan for the Town of Westport since the property is currently designated Preservation on the Town/County Plan. The project also needs to have the approval by the Regional Planning Commission for a change in the Central Urban Service Area(USA) so that this proposal may be included into the sewer district. The area is already in the Town water service area in part due to the well site that was part of Carriage Ridge first plat. This project is designed to have public sanitary service. The staff of the RPC has had a preliminary review of the proposal and have given some comments to the Town attorney and developer handling the Plan changes and USA expansions but no application for amendment has been made as of this writing. Upon approval of and USA for the site and a rezoning such as the one before the ZNR committee, the project would have to complete a preliminary and final platting procedure. A copy of a preliminary plat has been included in the application. This proposed location is not part of the major boundary agreement with the Village of Waunakee, but the Village will have its extra territorial review during the platting process although it is assumed they will not exercise this since the area was not included in the boundary agreement. The applicants have submitted a preliminary plat to Dane County. II. Analysis A. The current Town Plan shows this area in Agricultural Preservation. A Plan map change is in process at the Town. The Town may have already acted on such a change but the item has not been forwarded to the County as of this writing. Full consideration of a change will require the Regional Planning Commission consideration and the approval of ZNR and the County Board after the review period of 60 days is completed and a public hearing is held by the ZNR on the Plan amendment. The amendment will then need to be approved by the Land and Water Conservation Board of the State. The Town already has two very small map changes pending at DATCP which they have not been reviewed as of yet. This additional amendment will probably be useful in moving all of these changes along. Given the current designation of this area on the current Plan map as Agricultural, it is unclear how much detail and justification will be necessary in order to have a plan amendment approved by DATCP. With this in mind, it would be useful to submit this amendment to DATCP prior to completion of the entire process to see if there are any significant issues. P &D staff will submit such an amendment as soon as one is submitted to the county.