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February 13, 1995 Page 5 commercial developments are Stoppleworth Plumbing, Ltd. , 7750 Highway 14, Middleton, zoned LC-1 Commercial and Sunnyside Seed Farms, Inc. , 7755 Highway 14, Middleton, zoned C-2 Commercial. (5) Proposed Uses Of The Parcel Rezoning this parcel would allow a small, family-owned and operated landscape contracting and retail garden center business. Mr. Niesen will own and operate this business. The retail garden center part of the business will offer for sale nursery stock, plants and gardening and landscaping materials, supplies and tools, such as trees, shrubs, bedding plants, flowers, stone, mulch and topsoil. The garden center will not sell furniture, in response to neighborhood concerns about selling this product. The garden center will sell fertilizers, herbicides and pesticides. The garden center, however, will not sell or store on site bulk fertilizers (no bag or container holding more than 50 pounds) , bulk herbicide (no bag or container holding more than 50 pounds) , or bulk insecticides (no bag or container holding more than 50 pounds) . The landscape contracting business will not store bulk fuel (no tank exceeding 10 gallons) on site. The landscape contracting business will not store bulk fertilizers, herbicides or pesticides on site. Nor will the landscape contracting business offer lawn care services. The easterly 324 feet of this parcel would be rezoned to A-B Agriculture District to allow its use as a garden center. A-B Agriculture zoning will provide for commercial uses associated with local agricultural production, and which require a rural location due to extensive land needs and proximity of resources. Permitted uses include sales and distribution of nursery stock and plants. The westerly 245 feet of this parcel would be rezoned to LC-1 Commercial to allow its use for a landscape contracting business. LC-1 Commercial is intended solely for general, mechanical and landscape contracting businesses. LC-1 Commercial zoning is not full-fledged commercial use as permitted by C-2 Commercial zoning, because it is restricted to contractors only and places strict limits on the number of items of equipment which may be stored on site (15) . Like A-B Agricultural zoning, LC-1 Commercial zoning is intended to keep the contractor close to the area where he resides and conducts business, because it allows outside storage of materials or supplies used by the contractor in fulfilling contracts. Last year Mr. Niesen set up and operated an experimental and temporary garden center in the parking lot of the Piggly Wiggly supermarket in Cross Plains from approximately May 1 until June 30. Numerous local gardeners patronized Mr. Niesen's garden center. His patrons told him how much they enjoyed buying locally their nursery stock, plants and gardening and landscaping materials and