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(7) The Town of Oregon Plan Commission approved the proposed plan amendment (text and map) on November 26, 1996. The Town of Oregon Board will be asked to approve the plan amendment on December 2, 1996. (8) The Dane County Board will be asked to adopt the plan amendment on December 5 or December 19, 1996. (9) The plan amendment designates agricultural preservation and transition areas, including 4,462 acres designated for agricultural transition. The plan amendment adopted by Dane County removes these 4,462 acres from the 1981 plan. The department estimates that the plan amendment will also remove another 1,400 acres of land designated for rural development, from their current agricultural preservation status in the 1981 plan. (10) Dane County has justified the reasonableness of the transition areas based on the amount of current development, projected housing demand, constraints on dwelling unit density, and use of groundwater recharge areas. Dane County has also provided updated studies on agricultural use and productivity, housing and public facilities plans, and updated programs and policies for capital improvements, open space and special environmental resource protection, and procedures and standards for regulating private waste disposal systems. (11) The plan amendment states that the county will take the plan amendment into consideration when approving requests to rezone land into or out of exclusive agricultural use districts. (12) Dane County has demonstrated that the plan amendment is consistent with other land use plans which apply to the Town of Oregon. The plan is also free of internal inconsistencies. (13) The plan amendment identifies, on a section-by-section basis, the lands that are removed from agricultural preservation areas. It also identifies the reasons for removing those lands. These findings comply with s. 91.55 (2), Wis. Stats. (14) Dane County has provided properly titled maps of agricultural preservation and transition areas at the appropriate scale. Dane County has also provided, in lieu of an existing land use map, aerial photos and information on developed parcels. (15) The proposed plan amendment includes all the provisions required under subch. IV, ch. 91, Wis. Stats. (16) The department recommends that the LWCB certify the plan amendment for the years 1996 through 2005, subject to the following conditions: (a) The Dane County Board must adopt the plan amendment (text and map dated November 26, 1996) before December 31, 1996, with the following minor text changes: 1. Minor agreed text changes to correct inaccuracies in the labeling of overlay categories on page 34. 2