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Department of Planning and Development <br /> Planning/Inspection/Community& Economic Development/Assisted Housing <br /> City of George E. Austin, Director Madison Municipal Building <br /> Madison 215 Martin Luther King,Jr. Boulevard <br /> P.O. Box 2985 <br /> rAngMadison,Wisconsin 53701-2985 <br /> � 608 266 4635 <br /> AidJuly 12, 1988 <br /> Ms. Shary Bisgard, Chair <br /> Agriculture, Environment & JUL 12 i988 <br /> Land Records Committee <br /> Dane County Zoning Department RECEl7ED <br /> Room 116, City-County Building ZONING O,V, <br /> Madison, WI 53709 <br /> Dear Chairwoman Bisgard: <br /> We have received notice of the application by the Bank of Verona <br /> to rezone lands at the northeast corner of Raymond Road and CTH PD <br /> from the RH-4 district to the RH-3 district and C-i commercial <br /> district, to permit development of a branch bank facility. The <br /> Madison Planning and Development staff is opposed to this <br /> rezoning, and respectfully request that the rezoning not be <br /> approved. Our opposition to the rezoning is based on three <br /> factors: <br /> 1) The proposed bank site is located within an area identified <br /> as suitable for maintaining an open space separation <br /> between the cities of Madison and Verona. <br /> The Central (Madison) Urban Service Area and the Verona <br /> Urban Service Area are separated by barely one mile. Any <br /> permanent open space that is to be maintained between the <br /> two communities has to be within that separation. <br /> Madison's peripheral development planning process has <br /> determined that the most promising open space corridor <br /> would be one which takes advantage of two factors. First, <br /> the open space corridor should expand upon the separation <br /> between Madison and Verona already provided along Verona <br /> Road by Badger Prairie County Park, and seek to create a <br /> corridor that would connect this park with the planned <br /> University of Wisconsin Golf Course about one mile to the <br /> northwest. Second, the open space corridor should include <br /> the ridgeline and high ground running between Cross Country <br /> Road and Highway PD, north of Badger Prairie Park. This <br /> ridgeline provides a visual barrier which screens the open <br /> land to the west from the advancing development to the <br /> north and east. <br />