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Department of Planning and Development Planning/Inspection/Community & Economic Development/Assisted Housing City of George E.Austin, Director Madison Municipal Building Madison 215 Martin Luther King,Jr. Boulevard P.O. Box 2985 Madison,Wisconsin 53701-2985 A` 608 266 4635 July 12, 1988 Ms. Shary Bisgard, Chair Agriculture, Environment & Land Records Committee Dane County Zoning Department Room 116, City-County Building Madison, WI 53709 Dear Chairwoman Bisgard: We have received notice of the application by the Town of Burke for a conditional use permit for a town hall site south of 3472 Hoepker Road, just east of the cemetery. The Planning staff appreciates the Town's interest in relocating their town hall where it will be more convenient to their residents and service area. However, the site being proposed lies at the center of the only significant expanse of open space between the urban areas of Sun Prairie and Madison. Because there is renewed interest in finally seeking to secure the long-standing objective of retaining a visual separation between these two cities, and because premature development of the proposed town hall site could make achieving that objective difficult or impossible, the staff of the Madison Department of Planning and Development respectfully request that the conditional use permit not be approved until the communities involved (Town of Burke and Cities of Sun Prairie and Madison) have had time to work together on this issue. Just east of Rattman Road and the present Central Urban Service Area boundary, there is a low ridge running southwest to northeast. About a mile to the northeast along Highway 151, an environmental corridor consisting mostly of wetlands crosses the southwestern corner of the Sun Prairie Urban Service Area. (See attached map) Between these two features is where any visual open space separation between the two urban communities would necessarily have to be. Particularly to the north of Highway 151, the expanse of open farmland creates a sense that the urban strip between Madison and Sun Prairie is not, in fact, continuous, despite the existing commercial uses scattered along the south side of the highway. The Town of Burke recently amended their Land Use Plan to designate the triangle of land between Hoepker Road and Highway 151, east of the cemetery, for commercial uses instead of agricultural uses, although the Regional Planning Commission has