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4;"8• <br /> Department of Public Works <br /> Parks Division <br /> City of Madison Municipal Building, Room 120 <br /> Madison 215 Martin Luther King,Jr. Boulevard <br /> P.O. Box 2987 <br /> Madison,Wisconsin 53701-2987 <br /> 608 266 4711 <br /> ii'.I <br /> JUL 141992 <br /> ZONING WV. <br /> July 14, 1992 <br /> Dane County Zoning and Natural Resources Committee <br /> c/o William Fleck <br /> Room 116, City-County Building <br /> Madison, WI 53709 <br /> Dear Committee Members: <br /> The Madison Park Division recently learned of the proposal to rezone 73 acres <br /> of land along the north edge of Cherokee Marsh for a commercial strip <br /> development. I strongly urge you to reject the rezoning because it is <br /> contrary to all of the intergovernmental planning agreements for protecting <br /> Cherokee Marsh. <br /> The City of Madison strongly supported the intergovernmental planning effort <br /> which resulted in the adoption of a Long Range Plan for Cherokee Marsh in <br /> 1981. Other participants in the planning process were State, County and Town <br /> agencies, as well as citizens from all jurisdictions. It appears that one- <br /> third of the proposed rezoning is actually wetland, and approximately 70% is <br /> designated as open space on the Cherokee Marsh Plan. Furthermore, the <br /> Cherokee Plan was never intended to support development outside the open space <br /> boundary, but rather to identify the most important areas for protection and <br /> acquisition. In the decade since the Cherokee Plan was adopted, we have not <br /> been aware of any Town or County Plan (proposed or adopted) which proposed <br /> anything other than agricultural use for this property. Many of the agencies <br /> that adopted and and participated in the Cherokee Marsh Plan may not even be <br /> aware of this proposal. <br /> 1 <br />