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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 2 Application No. 6750. CUP 1380 DANE COUNTY PLANNING DIVISION STAFF COMMENTS BACKGROUND A. The applicant is requesting rezoning from two districts A-1 EX(2 acres) and A-2, to A-2(2). The intent written in the Application Information Sheet is to "convert school to church". The new rezone would provide zoning compliance for the existing parcel and the CUP would allow for religious uses. B. The subject property is 3.3 acres in size and has a school building in it,the former Springfield Elementary School, composed of eight classrooms - four of the classrooms are temporary buildings- and a gym. A pond occupies part of the property and a quarry is in the property adjacent to the South. II. ANALYSIS A. If the intention of the applicant is just to renovate the gym and transform it into a chapel as stated in the application, no additional structures or major changes to the property are intended. The proposal seems "reasonably compatible with its past use (see RPC comments). B. In a letter dated September 17, 1996,the applicant states: "We are also applying for a conditional use permit for religious use for a chapel.parochial school, and a residence for pastor or caretaker on the 3.3 acre parcel." If the intention of the applicant is to obtain a CUP for all such changes at this point in time, a site plan with those changes should have been provided, as well as more specific information on the use of the property (number of students for the school, size and location of the residence, number of parking stalls, ...). Such information is necessary for proper review by Dane County Staff such as location of well, septic system, traffic patterns, building setbacks, ..etc. C. In the site plan, a triangle is drawn with: "approximate buildable area= 1.3 ACRES". Such triangle is covered in part by a navigable pond as determined in the Wisconsin Wetland Inventory Map of 1986. A setback for buildings near a pond is required to be not less than 75 feet by the shoreland regulations (Dane County Code of Ordinances Chapter 11.03 (2)). Therefore all 1.3 additional acres stated in the site plan are not "buildable" in this property. D. If the CUP was approved based solely on religious uses as a conditional use permitted in A-2, (chapter 10.126.(3)(f)),the ZNR Committee could be approving further alterations to the property than the one applied for at the time of the application, without any review by Dane County Staff. Such alterations are included by definition in Chapter 10.01 of the Code of Ordinances (51a): "Religious uses. Shall include but not be limited to churches, church related schools, convents, and monasteries."