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REGIONAL PLANNING <br /> STAFF COMMENTS <br /> Petition 4814. This proposed 4—lot residential area Is within the <br /> Belleville urban service area. The town plan has no specific policies <br /> for this area, since urban services will be provided by the village. <br /> Relevant village policies are: <br /> 1 ) Encourage development served by public sewer and water and <br /> contiguous to existing developed areas. <br /> The purpose of this policy is to protect public health, avoid <br /> excessive costs of providing public services to scattered <br /> subdivisions and avoid premature development of farmland. <br /> 2) Provide a full range of urban services to all development within <br /> the Belleville urban service area in accordance with other plan <br /> policies. <br /> Require all development within the USA to meet urban service <br /> standards and to be served by public sewer and water . <br /> 3) Utilize the provision of municipal services as a tool to create a <br /> compact , well—designed community and discourage new development <br /> in areas that are premature according to the plan. <br /> Comments: <br /> 1) The existing lots shown on the Petition 4814 map are all <br /> unsewered In the Town of Montrose. There are existing homes on <br /> most of the lots west of Bell Rose Street and several south of <br /> North Shore Drive. However , the majority of these unsewered lots <br /> are undeveloped. <br /> The area to the east in the village is developing as a single <br /> family neighborhood with sewer .and water. The area to the far <br /> west in the village Is undeveloped. This proposal Is premature <br /> development because it should be planned with sewer and water at <br /> a density of 3 to 5 units per acre. Creating 4 unsewered lots of <br /> 1 .8 acres each will cause future problems in an urban service <br /> area where replacing septic tanks and providing public utilities <br /> will be very costly at some time In the future. <br /> 2) The Dane County Farmland Preservation Plan has a general policy: <br /> "Unsewered residential or commercial development should not <br /> be permitted in areas where towns have planned future sewered <br /> development . " <br /> For those reasons, this development proposal is in conflict with local <br /> and county policies. <br />