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-. To: The Village of Deerfield Planning Committee August 10, 1988 Dear Committee: My name is David R. Cheney. I am a land owner in the Village of Deerfield. I am a Land Surveyor and Registered Professional Engineer practicing in Dane County for the past 35 years . I wish to voice my objection to Walter Olson 's two petitions to create eight residential building lots immediately West of the Village Limits in the Town of Deerfield . My reasons for objecting are as follows : As persons active and interested in fostering the orderly development of the Village of Deerfield , try to anticipate and head off decisions that will be costly and restrictive to future Village growth. These two petitions will do both; If granted, the petitionor will create eight homesites that will have no sewer and water mains, no concrete curb, no storm sewer, no underground utilities and a blacktop street far short of the standard specifications of the Village. In the future, when it would become important, even essential to annex these homes into the Village in order to maintain orderly growth, these homeowners would refuse to be annexed in fear of being assessed for these missing improvements. This is one of the principal reasons for the formation of "Town Islands" . All improvements should be made to the building lot before it is sold , it then becomes a part of the sale price of the lot and eventually becomes incorporated into the home mortgage. Incidently, the City of Madison has so many Town Islands within it's borders that they have applied for City Status : the City of Wingra ' ' ' ' ' It is important to remember that an annextion of an area can only happen with the owner's consent, there is no such thing as forcing someone to annex against his will . Another point to be made concerni4ig Olson's long range plan to build a street from Highway #12 to the Bike Path along the route of Jenson Road and Robert Nelson Road just West of the Village Limits . Unimproved Lots along such a road, remaining in the Town of Deerfield would represent a barrier to the future expansion of the Village in that direction. A second , and equally important rule is that only contiguous lands can be annexed to the Village. The lands West of the Village represent the most favorable for future Village growth. Only the lands Northwest, West and Southwest can be served by your present sewerage system without pumping or lift stations . The lands Southeast, East and Northeast are mostly drained marshes, unsuitable for economical use. The siting of your water tower 1pt just off Jenson Road represents an "Educated Guess" by one of the previous engineers in your employ, as to the center of the next 20 years of growth. If Mr. Olson 's Plans prevail , I will make and "Educated Guess" that this water tower site will be outside the Village Limits forever. In conclusion, let me assure you that petitions for this type of development in any of the fast-developing communities in Dane County, more experienced with fast growth, would be soundly rejected . In many cases this rejection with be acc- ompanyed by the forefieture of a considerable application fee, $1000.00 in one of these communities. An engineering analysis of petitions such as this can be very costly to a municipality. I therefore urge you to reject these two Certified Survey Requests or condition their acceptance on their annexation to the Village and installation of all public utilities; sewer & water mains & laterals , storm sewer (if necessary) underground power, telepone and TV, concrete curb and blacktop street. SUCH A REJECTION OR CONDITIONAL APPROVAL IS CLEARLY PRESENTED TO YOU BY WISCONSIN STATE STATUTES . Yours truly / .t/i��!: , Iav R. Cheryey RL , PE AUG 121888 RECEIVED ZONING WV.