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COMPOSITE REPORT -page 6 Application No. 6975 D. The proposed residential lots are in the wooded areas of the property, except for lots (a) and (b), where according to the airphoto of April 1995, approximately 3.5 Acres fall in cropland. Except for those 3.5 acres, the proposal follows the first criteria for approval of a rezone from Al-EX stated on pp. 6, f.(1) of the town plan: "(1) The development is located on nontillable land and/or takes a minimum of tillable land, ..." E. According to the town plan (pp.7, (13) (iv)), whenever a rezoning results in reaching the maximum number of splits, the balance of the parcel will be deed restricted to prevent further development. In this case, the applicants are proposing the creation of 5 new lots on a property that has 7 splits available (see B). In terms of splits, two additional ones over the proposed ones would be available. F. The findings in C. and D. may lead to the impossibility of creating all the proposed lots in this petition as well as creating additional splits in the future. To cluster lots in the non-tillable portion of the property could be a viable option to make use of all the splits available on this property. By clustering the proposed residences, the requirements of avoiding the additional use of cropland could be met. A small stretch of public road would need to be created for access. G. The rezone to A2(4) for the heating and air conditioning use is clearly inappropriate. The business has 17 employees which clearly violates the ordinance's LFB standards. Limited family business provisions allow for one non-family member to be employed. There are three sheds and a house. The parcel is used to park six trucks. For that type of business a rezone to a commercial use would be more appropriate. The land use map of the town plan has the 1.9 acres that the original CSM occupies mapped as g: Rezoning for Commercial Development. SUMMARY A. The proposal makes use of 5 available splits in the parcel by creating three new residential lots larger than 15 acres when no public access is available and two smaller lots when there is a road. Concerning the residential lots proposed, the proposal presents the following problems: • the town road that accesses the smaller lots is substandard (see B) • tillable land can not be used to access the larger lots according to the town plan (see C) • 3.5 acres are rezoned from cropped land in the proposed RH-2 district (see D) B. A2(4) does not seem to be an appropriate district considering the size of the heating and air conditioning business. A rezone to a commercial district and a CUP for such use would be necessary to comply with the Dane County Zoning Ordinance requirements.