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• Department of Planning and Development Planning/Inspection/Community & Economic Development/Assisted Housing City of _ George E. Austin, Director Madison Municipal Building Madison 215 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Madison,Wisconsin 53710 j ` 608 266 4635 Ft' November 9, 1993 Mr. Lyman Anderson, Chair Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee City-County Building,Room 116 Madison, WI 53709 Re: Zoning Petition No. 5776, for a Lot at 6924-6926 West OldSauk Road Dear Chairman Anderson: The City has received notification of a petition by the Park Bank to change the zoning of the lot at 6924-6926 West Old Sauk Road in the Town of Middleton from the A-1 Agriculture District to the C-2 Commercial District. The staff of the Department of Planning and Development has a number of concerns with this proposed rezoning, and requests that the Zoning and Natural Resources Committee defer consideration of this petition so that these concerns can be addressed. The applicant states that the purpose of the request is to allow the construction of an accessory parking lot for a proposed branch bank to be constructed on the adjacent lot at the northwest corner of the Excelsior Drive and Old Sauk Road intersection, in the City of Madison. However, the Park Bank has not submitted any proposal to the City of Madison for development of a branch bank on their corner lot, nor has the City of Madison seen a proposed site plan indicating how the two Bank properties (the corner lot and the subject duplex lot) might be developed together. The lot proposed for rezoning is at the easternmost end of a narrow township peninsula. All of the adjacent lands to the north and east of the subject parcel, including the site of the proposed branch bank, are zoned RPSM Research Park- Specialized Manufacturing in the City of Madison. RPSM is a zoning district established to provide an attractive,park-like setting for selected office,research, and certain non-nuisance manufacturing activities. Development within RPSM districts must comply with special building design, landscaping, parking, and storage area standards, as well as receive the approval of an architectural review committee established for each RPSM district. At this time, no development proposal for the bank properties has been submitted to the City or to the architectural review committee for the Old Sauk Trails Research Park. I believe it is not good planning practice for uses which are accessory to a business located in one municipality to be established under the regulations and approval processes of a different municipality. This is especially true in the present case where the proposed principal use (the bank) is located within a relatively restrictive zoning district with limited allowed uses and special review and design