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COMPOSITE REPORT-Page 2 Application No. CUP 1452 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS I. BACKGROUND A. The Madison Country Day School is requesting a conditional use permit to allow use of an existing school building plus a temporary classroom building for a private school. A private school is a conditional use under the existing A-2 zoning of the property. B. The subject property is in the Town of Springfield, within the hamlet of Martinsville. The property is in a rural area, where public sewer and water services are unavailable. C. The subject property is currently occupied by St. Martin's Church. The history of the school use of this property and the school building is described in Exhibit A. Over the years, the school building has been used as a religious school and a public school, through CUPs for"religious uses" and"governmental uses" respectively. The CUP for religious uses is still valid. The proposed private school does not fall under the category of a"religious use." Therefore, a new CUP is required for Country Day School. II. ANALYSIS A. The subject property is currently used by St. Martin's Church. It includes a church building, rectory, cemetery, private residence, two-story school building(10,000 sq. ft.), and a paved parking area. St. Martin's parish continues use the school building on a limited basis for religious education classes. Also on the same legal parcel(but different zoning lot) as the church is a lighted baseball diamond, for which a rezoning to RE-1 and CUP were obtained in 1985. All uses share the parking area(see Exhibits B and C). B. Country Day School proposes to use the existing school building plus a"relocatable" classroom building for pre-kindergarten through third grade students. The anticipated enrollment for this school year is 50. Evening and weekend activities are not anticipated. The School considers this a temporary site pending location to a different site. C. A site plan showing existing and proposed uses of the subject property is included as Attachment B. All structures are existing except for the"new relocatable classroom" which would be 960 sq. ft. in area and have a maximum capacity of 35. The parking area is also existing, but the stripes shown on the site plan are not yet painted. A small real estate-type sign has been installed at the entrance to the property. D. The subject property is within a historic hamlet which is mainly residential in character. E. Staff have reviewed the proposed project against the six conditions for granting a CUP in S. 10.255(2)(h). The conditions, with staff comments, are summarized as follows: 1. That the conditional use will not etdanger the public health, safety, and welfare. The school use, if kept close to the enrollment anticipated, is consistent with the historic use of this property. Health, safety, or welfare should not be endangered. 2. That uses, values, and enjoyment of other properties in the neighborhood will not be impaired by the conditional use. The proposed use with have similar land use impacts on adjacent properties as the property's historic use. The school building is at least 400 feet from nearest residence. No new construction is proposed. Direct impacts on adjacent residences should be negligible. 3. That the conditional use will not impede orderly development of surrounding property. Most surrounding property is already developed. The Town Plan shows the ag properties to the north and west as an Agricultural Preservation Area.