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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 3 Application No. 6657 • To allow some home businesses which will be reviewed on the basis of their present and probable future impact on surrounding land uses. In considering rezoning for such uses, conditions should be attached that assure proper business access, visual compatibility with the surrounding area, and restrictions on expansion or re-use. RPC staff maintain that the C-2 Commercial District permits very intensive commercial and industrial activities which cannot be classified as home businesses. Furthermore, the graveled Lagoon Drive was designed primarily for access to the sewage treatment lagoon, not business access. Finally, C-2 uses in general may not be compatible with the surrounding agricultural area. E. The Town Planning Commission has made a favorable recommendation on this request to the Town Board. The Town Board is scheduled to act on the request at a July 22 meeting. F. On July 8, the Village of Cambridge Plan Commission unanimously voted to go on record as being"vehemently opposed" to this proposed rezoning. The Village has no legal power over zoning decisions in the Town of Christiana. III. SUMMARY A. The main issues surrounding this request are (1)the reported inconsistency of the proposed zoning and use with Town and County development policies and (2)the impact of the Inland-Wetland overlay zoning. Because a vast majority of the property is affected by Inland-Wetland zoning, the Zoning Division cannot issue a zoning permit for a warehouse or nearly any other commercial structure, even if the property is rezoned to C-2. The property must be rezoned out of the Inland- Wetland designation following the procedures in Section 11.10 of the Dane County Shoreland/Wetland regulations before it could be developed as proposed. B. If the ZNR Committee and County Board wish to approve this rezoning proposal at this time, they may consider requiring a condition along the following lines: "The only permissible use for the property is a warehouse. A small accessory office may be included in any warehouse use." The Town Board Chair indicated that the Town was considering applying a similar condition.