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November 1, 1996 Mr. Jim Gregorious, Administrator Dane County Zoning Room 116 City-County Building Madison, WI 53709 Dear Mr. Gregorious: Attached is an application for rezoning to build a single family residence on 66 acres we purchased in the town of Perry (Sec. 29, Township 5N., Range 6 E.). When we purchased the property in 1993, our offer was contingent on obtaining a building permit from the Town of Perry and from Dane County. In March 1993, we obtained permission from the Town and a site approval (#12-93) from the Zoning and Natural Resources Committee. We have only recently learned that this site approval process is no longer valid. Therefore, we are submitting a rezoning application in order to build at the site that was previously approved. Since the building site was approved in 1993, we cleared and constructed a road to the house site, removed some trees at the building location, ran electricity, and received approval for a septic system. A general description of the building site as listed below, remains essentially as it was presented in our original letter of 2 February, 1993. We are requesting to rezone 2.8 acres of land to accommodate our house and septic system (see attached rezoning map with legal description). This rezone parcel is located on two tax parcels, one of 40 acres (22-0506-294-8500-3) and one of 22 acres (22-0506-293-8000-9). We plan to build a house on the rezoned parcel during 1996 and 1997. Our building site is located on the west edge of a small agricultural field (8-10 acres) on Elkmound sandy load(EmC2) soils; the remainder of the field is predominantly Gale silt load (GaC2) soil. These soils are capability class IV and III,respectively. Class III soils have severe limitations that reduce the choice of plants, require special conservation practices, or both. Class IV soils have greater limitations, requiring very careful management, reduced plant choice, or both. The field bordering our building site was in CRP from 1987-89, withdrawn from CRP in 1989 due to farm foreclosure, and in grass hay from 1989-96. This field is considered to be too sandy for satisfactory production of corn or alfalfa(per previous owner). None of the other fields on our property(approximately 18-20 acres) will be directly affected by the proposed building site. Our driveway enters the property from State Highway 78, and runs east through woods to the edge of the agricultural field. The driveway passes through soil classified as Elkmound sandy loams (EmC2 and EmE2), capability classes IV and VII, respectively. Capability class VII is generally unsuited for cultivation with use largely suited to pasture, woodland, or wildlife. The