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• Petition 5464 (continued) 6. Adopted Land Use Plan: a. The Dane County Farmland Preservation Plan for the Town of Blooming Grove Area designates this as a Resource Protection Area where the objective is: "To preserve the Important natural landscape features and resources such as woodlands, wetlands, floodplains, streams, lakes and steep slopes. " This plan was adopted by Dane County In 1981 as part of the Farmland Preservation Plan, but not adopted by the town. b. The Town of Blooming Grove Draft Land Use Plan was recently adopted by the town, but has not received county adoption. This site is shown as an Environmental Corridor on the draft plan, with the objective to preserve a system of environmental corridors, which includes wetlands and many other natural features. c. The Regional Development Guide and Water Quality Plan The area requested to be rezoned Is a slgnificant mapped wetland. The wetland is Included in an adopted environmental corridor in the Dane County Regional Development Guide and Water Quality Plan, so sewer service or sewered development would be precluded unless the wetland was removed from the official wetland inventory by DNR, and removed from the environmental corridor by the Regional Planning Commission and DNR. d. Yahara-Monona Priority Watershed The wetland Is also in the Yahara-Monona Priority Watershed Project Area. The Yahara-Monona Priority Watershed Project Plan has been adopted by the RPC and the County Board, and Dane County has been designated the lead agency in implementing the plan. The priority watershed project plan places high priority on protecting wetlands and wetland functions In the watershed. The priority watershed plan identifies this particular wetland area as part of a 24-acre wetland. A functional evaluation and classification of the wetlands In the watershed (prepared by the UW as part of the watershed planning effort) Indicates that this particular wetland ranked high for the nutrient trapping function, and medium for most other wetland functions Including fauna, flora, flooding and sediment trapping, scenic beauty and groundwater discharge/recharge. Filling and development of this wetland would eliminate those functions. 7. Analysis and Summary Rezoning to permit filling and development of this wetland would have a significant adverse impact on wetland functions (a) ,(b) ,(c) ,(f) and (g) in Section 11 .10(2) of the Dane County Zoning Ordinance, and would be inconsistent with the requirements of that ordinance. In addition, rezoning would be inconsistent with the criteria in State Administrative Rule NR 103, Water Quality Standards for Wetlands. In summary, rezoning to permit filling and development of this wetland would be Inconsistent with adopted county plans and policies, county zoning criteria and state rules.