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BOARDMAN, SUHR, CURRY & FIELD Ms. Shary Bisgard May 17, 1989 Page 4 manner in which the issue has been presented to the townspeople by the Town Board. Indeed, it would be quite unfair to the Town residents to permit lights at the site under the "governmental use" conditional use, without the further steps promised to the residents by the official vote solicitation materials. I would hope that the outcome of the popular vote on the Town Hall site would not be considered by the Committee to be dispositive of the question whether the standards of section 10.255 (2) (h) are met on this site. The question whether the majority of townspeople want this site does not necessarily permit the imposition of extraordinary impacts on the "enjoyment of other property in the neighborhood" or the "public health, safety, comfort, or general welfare" that are the focus of section 10.255 (2) (h) . I am still concerned that the Town has presented this site to the Committee without any specific plans to mitigate the concerns about groundwater impacts (no perc test, specific disposal method or location, or groundwater flow information had been analyzed as of the date of the May 9, 1989 hearing) or traffic safety (no preliminary plan was identified to deal with the significant bicycle or horse traffic, or heavy traffic flow that would ensue if the site is developed in this hilly region) . I do not feel it is appropriate to grant a conditional use permit on the assumption that the standards of section 10. 255 (h) will be met at some time in the future by actions of the Town which it cannot identify at this time. Perhaps additional conditions should be attached to the conditional use permit requiring submittal of satisfactory plans to address these concerns. Nonetheless, it cannot be denied that the majority of townspeople (all but two dozen or so of whom do not live within sight of the land) favor the purchase of this site to " . . .con- struct a new Town Hall Center facility. . . . " The Committee can accommodate that expressed desire, and at the same time fully honor the specific requirements of the Dane County Ordinances as to the intensive uses of ball fields, and lights on ball fields, by, at a minimum, adding a condition to the conditional use permit that none of the uses specified in subsections 10. 10 (1) (a) or (2) (b) be conducted at the site without the further action of the Committee as required by said section 10. 10. No reasonable objection to such a restriction can be made by the Town, at least as to lights, and the application of subsection 10. 10 (2) (b) ,