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• DATE: August 29, 1995 TO: Members -- Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Board FROM: Bob Burull t4e9 SUBJECT: Response to Original Rezoning Request for Application # 6401 from Town of Christiana officials. Thank you for reviewing and considering my application for rezoning 3.22 acres from Al exclusive to RH-1. My comments hereof are made as an individual applicant for rezoning and not as a County Board Supervisor. Regarding the above, I telephoned the Town Chairman, Stan Lien asking him to meet with me to review my request for rezoning the parcel described in the application. Mr. Lien agreed to meet me at the Christiana Town Hall to look over my request which he briefly did. He then offered to bring my request to the Town Planning Commission on August 17 (Thursday) evening meeting. I arrived at the Town Hall about 8:40 PM where the Planning Commission was already handling other requests along with the Town Board Officers. My petition was eventually raised by Town Board Chairman Lien and brought before the Town Planning Commissioners. After Board Chairman Lien identifed and described the parcel a short discussion ensued among the board officers and the planning commission although Planning Commission, Lars Lien, Cousin of Stanley, was not present. Board Chairman Lien ended the discussion saying to me and to the general audience and planning commission members that I didn't qualify under their Land Use Plan for three reasons: (1) I obviously wasn't going to live on the requested newly rezoned parcel, (2) wasn't rezoning for a progeny, i.e., child or other close family relation, and (3) I had already zoned and sold off the existing farm buildings and therefore, per their land use plan, did not qualify nor would I be allowed to construct any other building(s) including a single resident house on the entire farm property (@170 acres). In addition to these statements Chairman Lien also stated the Town of Christiana was not favorably inclined to give "newcomers" or unoriginal land owners an opportunity to develop their recently acquired land. This brief, but pointedly made statement by Board Chairman Lien was corroborated by Town Planning Commissioner Richard Volenberg who when asked by Lien— "what was the pleasure of the planning commission" --answered, "Well, it doesn't fit the land use plan!" That disapproval abruptly terminated my request even though I suggested that their land use plan and policy (I had not yet seen their document) seemed discriminatory, that the land in question met the County requirements as it was non-tillable, accessible by a long-standing farm road and drainage strip, and met the 35 acre sub-division requirement. As you can imagine, I retreated from this special life moment more than a little