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Dane County Agriculture, Environment and Land Records Committee October 23 , 1989 Page 2 Remember also that neither the Army Corps of Engineers nor the Department of Natural Resources have zoned this land as a wetland or shoreland. A majority of the neighboring landowners were not professionally trained as landscape architects or engineers, but they did express concerns about the impact of any R-4 development on the neighborhood. The various examples of adverse impact seemed to relate to an increase in housing density on Colladay Point . Most of these comments flatly asserted that R-4 zoning was not appropriate and that R-3 zoning was . In response to this position, I remind you first that zoning is, by its nature, a process of establishing districts with different densities and uses . Even though some of the owners might wish that all of the Town of Dunn were zoned either single-family or conservancy, that clearly is not possible. Look closely at the location of the subject property. It is completely surrounded by public streets and, as such, is a parcel of land which may appropriately be zoned in one or more classifications which are consistent with, but not necessarily identical to, the lands on the other side of the street . The land is bounded on the West by U. S . Highway 51 which is a busy, limited access road and major commercial thoroughfare. A gradual transition in use from single-family homes at the tip of the Point through low to medium density multi-family housing inland, with moderate highway-related retail business is clearly more appropriate than R-3 zoning . While it is true that the residents of such a development would be renters rather than owners and that some of them might have small children, neither of these are sufficient, or even permissible, grounds for rezoning . Ms . White, the only member of the Town Board to speak on the 10th, was perhaps most direct in discussing the value of the rezoning for the neighborhood and the Town. In response to a question, she acknowledged that the Town of Dunn has but two park sites currently, and both of them on Colladay Point . Lot 29 on the South side of the Point was apparently dedicated to the public for park purposes by the late Charles M. Colladay, who died in the Spring of 1948 . The other park, which she indicated was hardly recognizable as such, she said was the extension of Zor Court northward to the shoreline of Lake Kegonsa . When asked about plans for other parks , she admitted that the Town and its elected officials were very conservative in the expenditure of public monies . A nearly identical sentiment had been expressed by Mr . Minahan, Town Chair, at the time of the Town Board meeting on this Petition in September . In response to another question, Mr . Zarnsdorff , the landscape architect, indicated that the principal importance of the land to the community was its value as a playground. This sort of action, in which an owner of land is prevented from exercising the rights and privileges of that