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A Zoning Cammittee -- April 10, 1984 If the Judge had intended that a zoning change would be necessary to complete the transaction determined in Court, he would (obviously, I think) not have authorized the Order describing the separate parcels of real estate. In reality, a zoning change would not be required once the separate legal entities had been clearly established. -ri— dtV(Sioti, o.{. doavcc31S was a decision the Court made in total -- the decision was to equalize and divide the joint property. Each of the parcels adds to the sum of the whole Court decision. I think a very brief history of recent farm takings should be mentioned for the record and perhaps throw some significant background light on t�heo 1Current dilemma. The State condemned land for the new highway right-of-way for 18 and 151. This action severely altered our farming potential -- it had been a dairy farmlin the family, for 100 years. The State action led to the demise of the dairy. The acres could no longer support the dairy. There are now three paralleling roads through the south side of the farm and where we formerly had two access crossings we now have none. The improvements are on the north side of the highway -- the only way to reach the south side was around the^roadS% The three paralleling roads are the old 18 and 151 road; the 100-foot rail corridor which will be a bike trail; and, the new 18 and 151 right-of-way approaching the intersection at Highway 78 (so the taking is wider in the approach to the intersection) . The new road goes diagonally through the land from the northwest to the southeast and in the process left a narrow, triangular sliver`-bf little or no use for farming. As I said, it destroyed acres necessary for our farming operation. In the taking, the appraisal by the State was low and we were advised (by a representative of the District DOT, Henry Golbach) to get another appraisal. We obtained LeRoy Sauer who came in with a higher value but because of many obvious discrepancies in both of these appraisals, I hired Thomas Wycrore for an independent appraisal. I have a copy of each of the appraisals with me as well as a list of the errors in the first two appraisals substantiating the need for the third. - 2 -