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MEMO <br /> To: Dane County Zoning Administrator <br /> From: Gary Johnson, Attorney for Rod Slotten <br /> Re: Rezoning Petition for Verona Airport <br /> Date: July 2, 1997 <br /> Mr. Rodney Slotten, the owner of Air Park Associates, Inc. , located <br /> at 6654 Grandview Road, Verona, WI 53593 , and operator of the <br /> Verona Airport, completed construction of a new runway for the <br /> Verona Airport in 1996. Mr. Slotten laid this new runway because <br /> construction of the Verona 18-151 bypass, physically shortened <br /> Verona Airport's old runway by four hundred feet. Additionally, <br /> 18-151 ' s construction increased the elevation of the highway <br /> abutting the airport by 10 feet. Maintaining the safe 20 to 1 <br /> glide ratio for take-offs and landings in light of that ten-foot <br /> elevation effectively shortened the runway by another two hundred <br /> feet. Thus, construction of the bypass effectively shortened the <br /> old runway by 600 feet. Crop dusters, serving area farmers, have <br /> continued to use this shortened runway out of necessity, even <br /> though they have reduced their margin for error, and substantially <br /> increased the likelihood of a serious mishap. <br /> In order to operate the Verona Airport's new runway, its southern <br /> portion must be rezoned from RH-i to A-2, and a conditional use <br /> permit for this section of the runway is required. Additionally, <br /> the runway north of the Badger Mill Creek must be rezoned out of <br /> the Dane County's wetlands inventory. The rezoning of the northern <br /> end of the runway will effect approximately one to two acres of <br /> land, while the actual impingement on wetlands should be less than <br /> one acre. <br />