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• <br /> • <br /> DeWITT, PORTER, HUGGETT, SCHUMACHER & MORGAN, S.C. <br /> Dane County Agriculture, Environment <br /> and Lands Record Committee <br /> April 7, 1987 <br /> Page 2 <br /> The following new evidence and changed conditions are offered <br /> in support of Mr. Petty' s request. <br /> 1. The town board of the Town of Dunkirk has supported <br /> Mr. Petty' s request. Apparently the County Board during <br /> consideration of Mr. Petty' s first request was concerned that <br /> the Town of Dunkirk land use plan placed the lands in the A-1 <br /> Exclusive Agricultural District. <br /> 2 . As was the case for many towns in Dane County, the <br /> Town of Dunkirk land use plan arbitrarily placed all <br /> undeveloped lands in the A-1 District without prior study or <br /> individual consideration. This was done in order to make the <br /> state agricultural land credits available for farmers in the <br /> Town. Many of the lands which were arbitrarily placed in the <br /> A-1, Exclusive Agricultural District, under the Town land use <br /> plan, did not and do not meet the requirements of Chapter 91 <br /> of the Wisconsin statutes relating to farmland preservation. <br /> 3 . New evidence that neither the Town nor the County <br /> has considered the Town land use plan to preclude reasonable <br /> development of A-i lands which are no longer suitable for <br /> agricultural uses is shown by the fact that on March 10 and <br /> April 2 , 1987, by unanimous vote, the Dane County Board <br /> approved residential rezoning petitions 3891 and 3990 for <br /> lands in Sections 10 and 17 of the Town of Dunkirk. (See <br /> copies attached. ) In both of these cases the rezoned lands <br /> were zoned A-1 under the town land use plan. Also, sig- <br /> nificantly, both of these rezonings occurred in the extra <br /> territorial area of the City of Stoughton. <br /> 4 . Mr. Petty' s petition is substantially changed from <br /> his original request. He has reduced from four to two the <br /> number of additional single family lots which will be <br /> created. In addition, the revised lots which he proposes are <br /> substantially larger than the adjacent lots in Eggelson' s <br /> Woods. One lot will be 1. 74 acres and the other will be 5. 71 <br /> acres in area. He anticipates that his daughter will <br /> purchase the larger lot and will construct a home on the west <br /> side of the parcel in the general area of the Eggelson' s <br /> Woods homes, and that a friend of his daughter' s will <br /> purchase the smaller lot and will also build a home on the <br /> high lands adjacent to Eggelson' s Woods. <br />