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OPPOSITION TO CUP REQUEST BY YAHARA MATERIALS, INC. FOR 59.8 ACRES AT OR NEAR 6053 HIGHWAY 78, MAZOMANIE, WISCONSIN. We the undersigned concerned property owners who are adversely affected by the existing and proposed CUP activities of the Halfway Prairie Pit, Mazomanie, Wisconsin, hereby express our opposition to the CUP request on the triangular parcel at or near 6053 State Highway 78, Mazomanie, Wisconsin for the following reasons: (Reference CUP#1721 7/24/010 1. Noise from digging, crushing, and trucking disruptive to normal living conditions, and should not be permitted. Trucks in and out noisy and create dust. 2. Numerous conditions in Conditional Use Permit#1721 not followed. 3. Dust from the pit as water spray bars are seldom used as called for in #1721. 4. #4 of#1721. Not complied with. Trees do not "mitigate the noise and for visual and safety concerns of the neighbors". No evidence of mowing in the past 15 years. 5. #7. Extension is not warranted and operation should cease. 6. #8 says, "The total disturbed area of the site shall not exceed 20 acres at one time." This proposed CUP would exceed 20 acres and the proposed CUP should not be granted! It appears from a hillside view of the quarry, it exceeds 20 acres now. 7. #9. Reclamation; No evidence of any reclamation to farming as owners promised and called for in #1721. 8. #11. The first 150' of the driveway shall be paved. Not long enough. Not dust free. 9. #23. Where is the "water table study", and the neighbors would like to see it since the water flow seems to be in a NW direction toward at least 4 occupied homes. 10. #24. All private wells are to be tested @ 3 years. None have been tested to our knowledge. The proposed CUP in the triangular agriculture field North of the proposed 41-acre site is not needed at this time. Colored aerial maps show approximately twenty acres of the present 40 acre parcel as available for mining. The approximately 20 acres in the triangle are not needed at this time and should never be extracted due to its close proximity to rural housing and opportunities by adjacent land owners to promote rural housing. This CUP request should be denied. Adjacent farmlands with normal potential to urban housing is negatively impaired and economic losses to adjacent property owners, as who could want to build rural housing and live next to a gravel pit. It would stifle any legal development of adjacent home sites to the benefit of a dusty, noisy quarry, with all the added traffic of gravel/sand trucks. In the Composite Report for CUP#2338, Proposal Summary and Background, p. 2 under Town of Mazomanie Comprehensive Plans: Note this language: "Extraction activities are not generally compatible with residential uses and should be directed away from clusters of home sites or planned residential areas." That is exactly our position. There are clusters of home sites adjacent to this parcel, and at least one farmland owner would like to develop "planned residential areas", but cannot go to the tremendous cost of development and try and sell lots with a noisy, dusty, ugly quarry in the front yard. (See addendum A with CUP 2338 comments.)