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- 1 Ms. Chairman & Members of the County Zoning Committee I was deeply shocked and surprised at the public hearing and unprepared for the Town of Cottage Grove requesting that they withhold their comment on the zoning petition 3625. I would have been more informative in my presentation if I would have expected their decision not to recommend approval of our zoning change. At the Town Board Meeting, March 17th, the board on a rehearing failed to endorse or reject a zoning change, so, they haven't any recommendation one way or the other. The fifth board member was absent because of illness and has written you a letter of approval of this zoning change. We have, I believe, followed all the procedures of the Town of Cottage Grove and the County of Dane in asking for our zoning change. We have even gone beyond the normal procedures by approaching all the neighbors in the immediate area who would be mostly affected, at least four (4) days before the planning meeting. We informed them of the date, time, and place of the planning meeting. I believe, we informed them of the town meeting time and date also. We also gave them a choice of two petitions to sign, one in favor of the zoning change and one against. We also contacted the County Hwy Department, the Department of Environmental Health and the State Hwy Department if they had any fears or restrictions on placing a truck terminal at this location. They had no problem with the site, they indicated it was a natural location for this type of town project. Both the planning committee and the town board approved the zoning change to commer- cial , and the site meets all the requirements for commercial zoning. I am enclosing a copy of the minutes of the February 17th, Town Board Meeting, where they voted in favor of our zoning change. Also, a copy of the letter with their ap- proval of the zoning change and also the County Hwy Committee is in favor of the change of use for the driveway. We have changed some of the boundary lines of the proposed C2 area. I will however, get a site plan layout to Norb Scribner before your meeting. The town and village had some concern about the site and operation of the trucking terminal as to increased traffic on County N. This is a Class A highway however, designed for truck traffic. The terminal would increase traffic by about 2% with a lot of that traffic getting off of Interstate 94 and on again, therefore, being on County N only a few hundred feet. Not all trucks would be coming or going from one direction, but some from all four. North and South on N and East and West on I94. I will leave a map of Dane County with Norb on which I will mark some truck routes for you. In talking with the traffic managers of a couple of the truck lines planning to use the terminal , they indicated that the Feeder Trucks coming from the South and West using I90 would continue on I90 to I94, then head East to N turnoff to reach the terminal . Although the route is longer, it would be faster for them. Another concern was water run off. This water would be contained on our land as we have the lowest spot in the area. We haven't come up with a final site plan as yet, but I assume most of the water will run off to the South. We will seed that area and if need be, we will install a waterway to the ditch along Gaston Road, then at our farm entrance, it will return to our property. If necessary, we can put a culvert in our driveway and direct the water to the Northeast to an old gravel pit on our land. This is the lowest part of our land and adjoining land. We could put in some trees for screening along Hwy N