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. 1 . ' 2. The Dane County Highway Department is on record that it will never grant a highway easement from the Connors property onto County Rd P immediately to the east, presumably because of the blind curve along this road immediately south of its junction with County Rd J and around the end of the bluff. Although the applicant's rezoning petition describes the property as across from 3450 County Rd P, the existing access driveway is at 4175 County Rd J. The proposed parcels A and B would have to share that common driveway, which is located immediately between the driveways for 4165 County Rd J (Wolfe) and 4177 County Rd J (Schmid), creating additional congestion and disturbances. 3. If the existing parcel is subdivided into two residential lots, a house could eventually be built on proposed parcel B unless deed restrictions were added by county or state action. Contrary to testimony by John A Kassner, the attorney and who represented Donald P Connors at the May 11 zoning committee hearing, our area, which is located approximately one mile south of the community of Pine Bluff, is wholly rural in character. North of County Rd J and east and south of County Rd P, there are only farm fields and scattered farmhouses and farm buildings. Under summer foliage, none of the houses on the south slope are visible from the road, and none of the houses fronting County Rd J were constructed on the slopes at all. Most of the residents have privacy from one another and from the outside world. A house built far up the side of the north slope, or even worse, at or near the top the bluff, would be an esthetic eyesore. It would be out of character with the siting of the neighboring homes and and would negatively affect their values. 4. Pine Bluff, the porous sandstone outcrop that dominates the local skyline and for which the nearby community of Pine Bluff is named, is a unique landform and is environmentally fragile. Pine Bluff, described as part of the Saint Peter's sandstone outcrop, is a petrified prehistoric sand dune that once marked the edge of an extensive inland sea. Marine fossils are found in limestone outcrops along County Rd P about two miles to the south. Because of its unique topography and the variety of microclimates and soil conditions on the bluff top and at various heights of the bluff slopes, and because of the relative difference of available sunlight on the north and south slopes, Pine Bluff is home to a mix of native and second-growth woods and to numerous species of aviary and wild life. Pine Bluff is a common asset not only of the residents whose homes are built at its foot along County Rd J and County Rd P, but is also a unique resource of our local community and of all Dane County. Even excessive climbing on this unique landform destroys small areas of the rock; building construction would cause far more extensive environmental and ecological damage. 5. As pointed out in the Town of Cross Plains letter, lot lines on the parcel map that was circulated when the town board approved the zoning change are not the same as the lot lines shown on the map presented at the hearing on May 11 before the Dane County Zoning Committee. Minimally, this disparity implies that the earlier approval is invalidated. 6. John A Kassner, Donald P Connors' agent, claimed at the zoning committee hearing that Mr Connors' daughter now occupies the existing property in question, and that Mr Connors wishes to subdivide the property more or less equally so that his son as well as his daughter can each share the property. But Mr Connors previously owned both the existing property at 4175 County Rd J, which he has rented to various tenants for many years, and the adjoining property at 4165 County Rd J, which he sold to Thomas M Wolf a few years ago. If, in fact, his concern was to provide adjoining properties to both his 2