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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 2 Application No. 6698 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS BACKGROUND A. The applicant is requesting rezoning to B-1 and a conditional use permit to allow the Madison Mobile Home Park to expand in area and be in conformance with the Dane County zoning ordinance. Mobile home parks and their expansions are conditional uses in the B-1 district. The subject property is 16 acres in area. Roughly 170 mobile homes are located on the developed 13.3 acres now zoned B-1, while the remaining undeveloped and wooded 2.7 acres are now zoned R-3. The applicant proposes to relocate approximately 22 mobile home sites from the already developed portion of the subject property to the undeveloped area. B. The subject property is in the Town of Madison north of USH 12-18. It is within the Central Urban Service Area, where public sewer and water services are available. The limits of the City of Madison are across Nygard Street to the north. C. This item was postponed at the ZNR Committee's September 17 public hearing at the applicant's request. At the Committee's request, the public hearing was renoticed for October 15, though the applicant still wants County action on the rezone and CUP delayed until issues with the Town are resolved. II. ANALYSIS A. The Madison Mobile Home Park is built to a density of 13 units per acre. The Park is nonconforming to the density standards of the current zoning ordinance, which require homesites of at least 3,000 sq. ft. and spacing of at least 30 feet between mobile homes. The rezoning and CUP would allow roughly 22 homesites within the most dense portions of the mobile home park to be relocated to the currently undeveloped parcel on Nygard Street. B. Exhibit A shows the existing mobile home sites including the 22 sites proposed to be relocated. The subject property is located between the South Beltline on the south and a single family residential neighborhood to the north along Nygard Street. The area west of the subject property is developed with multiple family residential uses, and the area to the east is developed with commercial uses. C. Exhibit B shows the applicant's preliminary development plan for the 2.7 acres which would"receive"the 22 relocated sites. Each site would be about 4,200 square feet and the homes would be at least 30 feet apart from one another. The density of the expansion area would be 8 units per acre, with the overall density of the Park dropping below 11 units per acre. The plan proposes a road network to serve the mobile homes, with access from a private drive off Nygard Street. D. The proposed rezoning would be consistent with adopted town/county plans for this area. The area is identified within the Town of Madison Land Use Plan as appropriate for residential development. However,B-1 zoning may not be the best district for the property because that district allows several commercial uses which would be inappropriate for the residential Nygard Street. The R-4 Residence District, which also allows mobile home parks as conditional uses, may be more appropriate. The R-4 district, however, does not have the same screening