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The noise is also a menace. From August until the first frost, during the canning season, the trucks bring in silage throughout the night. A large tractor stacks and levels the silage continuously. The trucks have end-gates banging, and the shifting as they come and go is disruptive during the late summer nights when many residents may have windows in their homes open. Windsor Hills is not the first in addressing the issue of a sweet corn silage pit. According to minutes of a 1985 Cottage Grove Town Board Meeting, a similar zoning change request was disapproved there. Mr. Porter sold the land that is now Windsor Hill for residential development. He committed at that time to any residents that purchased lots to build their homes . Since Mr. Porter's been a longtime resident of Windsor, and Doug Porter, Mr. Porter's son, serves on the Windsor' Town Board, it may be difficult for that board to be unbiased on this issue. Conflict of interest could exist. That may increase the importance of the board at the county level on this issue. In speaking with Orville Hintz of the Environmental Health Department, he's stated that he wrote to recommend that this zoning change request not be approved as written. Hopefully this board will disallow the zoning change. The silage stored there should be removed. The county may want to consider developing conditional use permits that state how close to habitation these open pits will be allowed. In closing, only two people benefit from storing the silage in Mr. Porter's pit. One, Mr. Fredenburg, the major benefactor, isn't even a resident of Windsor Township. The second, Mr. Porter, is the very person who sold the land for residential development 12 years ago. When only two people benefit from the proposed change, and over 70% of the residents of Windsor Hill have signed a petition opposing the zoning change, it seems undemocratic to allow that change. •