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COMPOSITE REPORT - Page 2 APPLICATION NO. Petition 6740 STAFF COMMENTS REGIONAL PLANNING Petition 6740. This proposed expansion of a trucking business is partially within the Burke Limited Service Area, but mostly outside. The rectangular parcel on the north end of the proposed rezoning has a garage and a limited trucking business now. It is in the Limited Service Area with public sewer and water available. If the use is limited to the trucking business, it may be compatible. Many other C-2 uses would be incompatible at this location, since this is a limited service area, the area to the south is a wetland which drains directly into Cherokee Marsh and there are several single family homes in the area. The triangular area to the south is an open field which is apparently intended as a truck parking area. The area to the east and south is a mapped wetland which drains directly into Cherokee Marsh. This site is within the Yahara-Mendota Priority Watershed where substantial public funds are being expended to reduce pollution in the watershed. The wetland boundary on the site should be surveyed and accurately delineated with the assistance of WDNR as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. It should be noted that although the DNR wetland inventory is the basis of wetland zoning and enforcement at the county and state level, the inventory maps lack the accuracy needed for site design. Furthermore, in non-agricultural areas, the Corps of Engineers has the jurisdiction to enforce the federal wetland protection mandate and should be consulted to ascertain compliance with applicable federal laws. If development is permitted, it should be conditionally rezoned to: • permit only truck parking and not other C-2 Commercial permitted uses. • require a site plan including measures and practices which provide long-term water quality protection for the adjacent wetlands and the Token Creek tributary which receives the stormwater runoff from the proposed development. Such measures should require a 75-foot vegetative buffer around the wetland and stormwater retention (wet ponds) to intercept polluted stormwater runoff from all road and parking surfaces. ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH (septic, etc.) None. DANE COUNTY HIGHWAY None.