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AXLEY BRYNELSON Attorneys Since 1885 October 21, 1988 Page 2 The plans for the development of the subject property include the development of 14 lots and the preservation of the pond, leaving 42-1/2 acres net usable land of the 52 acres . These 14 lots will vary in size from 1 . 5 acres up to 15 acres and will be used for the construction of offices, warehouses , processing facilities and related highway activities. This development will not put undue pressure on the road system and will have no impact on any residential developments in the area. The development of this quadrant of the Interstate will follow, by and large, the same manner of development that has occurred in many other quadrants intersecting highways with the Interstate system. We believe that Dane County' s plan provided for the development of quadrants along the Interstate such as this in the manner in which such development is presently proposed. Such a development will provide economic activity for the Town and for the County. We believe this development will be in the best interests of both the Town and the County. There has been objection raised to the rezoning of this property based primarily on the claim that there is a substantial amount of land zoned commercial in the Town of Burke which is vacant. Specifically, it is claimed that 802 acres of land in the Town of Burke zoned commercial are vacant and that of this total , 116 acres are lands within urban or limited service areas . Virtually all lands rezoned commercial in the Town of Burke since the advent of the Dane County Regional Plan have been developed or are in the process of being developed. Some of us can recall the zoning process prior to the advent of the Dane County Regional Plan. We can recall that zoning was pretty much helter-skelter at that time and that large tracts of land were rezoned commercial without much planning therefor. As a result, most of the land zoned commercial in the Town of Burke is not economically developable as commercial land because of its location, because of the character of the land, and for varying other reasons. It cannot be said, therefore, that because there are 802 acres of land zoned commercial such land is in fact commercially developable. Much of this land zoned commercial was zoned commercial prior to the construction of the highway system that makes the subject property ideally suited for commercial development. Therefore, it is our view that the lands presently located in the Town of Burke zoned commercial are not well suited for commercial development and their existence should not be a reason for the refusal to rezone the subject property.