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• 3861 Hommen Lane Deerfield, Wisconsin 53531 (608) 262-0763 (office) (608) 764-5256 (home) February 27, 1994 Dane County Zoning 210 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Madison, WI 53703 To the Zoning Administrator: I would like to apply for rezoning on the property owned by my wife and me at the above address from Al Agriculture Exclusive to Residential 3. The legal description of the property as stated on our last tax bill is R978/21 SEC 19-7-12 PRT W1/2 SW1/4 NE1/4 THE N 770 FT OF E 170 FT THE EXC TN RD DESCR IN D444/373 & EXC R1961/15. While in the process of refinancing our home to borrow money to build a garage, we were required to have an appraisal done. The appraiser, Dena Detry of Goulette Appraisal Co., found that our property is not a legal, conforming parcel and that it has never been registered. In the nearly sixteen years in which we have owned this property, we have been appraised for a mortgage, been approved for two mortgages, and received a building permit for a previous addition but never found out before that we are not zoned correctly. We are applying for Residential 3 zoning so that we may attach a garage to the south side of our house toward the rear of our house. Our well is directly south of our house and its location precludes addition of the garage directly south of the house. The back, southwest corner of the house is now 50.5 feet from the property line. The house is not set parallel to the property line. Therefore, if the line of the back of the house were continued to the south, it would get closer to the west property line the farther south it goes. If the garage is twenty-four feet deep with only four feet overlapping the house because of the well and twenty feet behind the house, the southwest corner of the garage will certainly be closer than the thirty-five feet restriction of Residential 2 zoning and close to the twenty- five feet restriction of Residential 3. We have asked the owners of the property to our south and west, Terry and Joanne Jones, if they would sell us enough land to be able to meet a fifty foot restriction. Although they did not want to sell us any of their land, they did express that they have no objection to our putting a garage twenty-five feet from their property line. If we receive a zoning change to Residential 3, we would begin construction of the garage this spring. If I can provide any other information which you may need in this rezoning process, please contact me at the above address or telephone numbers. Thank you for the help your office has provided in this matter. Sincerely, Barry Mo