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18 June 2015 To: Dane County Zoning Re: Anne Aplin Farm, 4355 Krueger Road Town of Deerfield Dane County WI Parcel Numbers:0712-101-9840-5,0712-101-9860-1, 0712-104-8001-0,0712-104-8320-0, 0712-112-9181-0, 0712-112-9220-2,0712-113-8601-0 Anne Aplin presently owns a 46.8 acre farm in Sections 10 and 11 in the Town of Deerfield, Dane County WI, per Dane County information. The property consists of a classic two-story brick farmhouse,a full set of out buildings, beautiful mature grounds around the buildings, a productive apple orchard,tillable farmland and is the home of the Glacial Drumlin United Soccer Club. The soccer facility was established in 1996 and consists of the soccer fields,greenspace,and a gravel parking area and is ringed by mature evergreens. Thousands of youth soccer players and their families have enjoyed this facility and been amazed by the experience of being in the rural outdoors. The Aplin family has provided the land for this incredible amenity to our Township for almost 20 years with only modest financial assistance. Now,the non-profit Glacial Drumlim United Inc. soccer club wishes to purchase this parcel. Additionally the entire farm is surrounded on three sides by the 1,000 acre DNR Goose Lake Wildlife Area. At the determination date of 26 October 1978, the plat book shows the "parent"farm consisted of 52 acres. Since that time the DNR has purchased land from the Aplin farm (and swapped another 2.5 acres)to have the farm become the present parcel size and configuration. In 2009,the soccer land was made into Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map#122699 and that 9.423 acres is zoned RE-1. There have been no land division resulting in the creation of a dwelling unit on this farm to this date. It is also noted the 46.8 acres per Dane County information includes the road right of way. On this particular farm,the right of way for Krueger Road is 49.5 feet wide and that full width is part of the subject farm,as opposed to being split down the centerline. This road right of way impacts over 1.7 acres. The approximately 2.0 parcel lying easterly of Krueger Road is typically considered as a separate parcel by Dane County, but the Town of Deerfield Comprehensive Plan does not seem to recognize this status as it references contiguous land as"lands directly across public roads...". At this time, Ms.Applying is requesting the following zoning changes: 1. East of Krueger Road, an approximately 2.0 acre lot to the R-1A zoning district to allow the sale of a building site. 2. 32.5 acres with the residence, outbuildings,and farmland to the A-2 zoning district. 3. approximately 1 acre to the RE-1 zoning district to be added to the soccer facility. (The double row of evergreens and part of the existing parking lot were not fully incorporated into the prior zoning and mapping.) As noted above,the non-profit soccer club wishes to purchase the resultant 10.4 acre parcel. The Town of Deerfield Comprehensive Plan states that a pre-determination farmstead does not count as a dwelling unit right, if that farmstead stays on 35 acres. This allows the right to have the R-1A building site as requested in item#1 above. Problems arise with the 32.5 acre farmstead parcel in that 1.the zoning process will remove the road right of way from the remaining farm"land mass"and 2.the need