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. • 4 • • • • TO: Mt. Horeb Village Trustees FROM: Mt. Horeb and Town of Springdale Citizens RE: Proposed Car Dealership in Springdale at Mt. Horeb's eastern edge We urge you to deny the rezoning request made by Symdon Motors, a Mt. Horeb car dealership, to relocate its facility to the eastern edge of the village near the Hwy. 18-151/Cty. ID interchange, for the following reasons: 1. The proposed development goes directly against the village's newly adopted Comprehensive Plan. The Plan clearly indicates that the area in question should become residential development. There are provisions made for commercial development along Cty. ID adjacent to where there is already commercial development -- west of the proposed location and inside the village limits. Allowing the Symdon proposal to go ahead would create a hodgepodge of "commercial- residential-commercial" development along the south side of Cty. ID and violate the continuity of development the Plan has carefully considered. 2. Granting this request, and allowing commercial development near the interchange, would likely open the door to many other commercial developments in that area. Once the town and village have established the precedent that land use in that area is "negotiable," it will be very difficult to live by the village's Comprehensive Plan, at that location or anywhere else. We should not make exceptions to the Plan every time (as in this case) a business owner can't strike the deal he wants. 3. We wholeheartedly agree with the Comprehensive Plan's conclusion that the interchange area should not be developed commercially, for aesthetic and safety reasons. a). Aesthetically, the interchange.is Mt. Horeb's "front door" to visitors. We think the village of Mt. Horeb has many unique attributes, among them the fact that our front door is not cluttered with fast food joints and car dealerships. While we have all eaten at fast food joints and have shopped for cars, we believe there are far more appropriate places for those businesses than at that interchange. There is growing consensus among land use planners and landscape architects that highway interchanges need to be carefully and thoughtfully developed. b). We think the interchange could become much more dangerous if a business is established right across from Ridge Road's entry onto Cty. ID. Moreover, Mr. Symdon's development of the property before a frontage road is installed (another recommendation of the Comprehensive Plan) might preclude, or even make impossible, construction of a frontage road. Vr�