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• : • September 28, 1987 Page Four officials, representatives of the Tamarack and Oak Bridge Neighborhood Associations and Supervisor Neviaser. The request was made to eliminate "distribution centers and wholesale businesses" from the list of permitted uses. That was done. The County is certainly used to deed restrictions as a means of control- ling certain land uses. However, there are two unique features of this deed restriction which warrant mention. First, the restrictions are made not only to the 19.45 acres of the portion of the parcel which is the subject of the rezoning proposal (Parcel B) , but is also applicable to the 43.7 acres to be developed in the future (Parcel C) . Although we recognize that this deed restriction is not equivalent to a land use plan, the fact that the restrictions are applicable to future development of the parcel is significant. The second matter to note is that two adjoining property owners, namely the Holy Name Seminary and the Board of Directors of the Applewood Hills Association, will be able to enforce these deed restrictions directly, if they wish, without going through the Town or the County. The message from all this is that we are very serious about complying with the letter of these restrictions. 4. Have the transportation-related issues been resolved? The Menard's proposal could not have been made at a worse time from a traffic viewpoint. That is because during this past summer, Mineral Point Road traffic has received additional detour traffic due to USH 14 reconstruction and the Old Sauk Road interchange construction. This additional traffic using Mineral Point Road in this area was about 3500 vehicles/day. This additional traffic has since gone back to its original routes. In considering the impact of traffic volumes on Mineral Point Road in relation to this proposal, it is critical to separate the traffic situation west of the Beltline as opposed to east of the Beltline on Mineral Point Road. The reason for this is that John Norwell of the Dane County Highway Department has stated that an overwhelming majority of the traffic to and from Menard's would be using the West Beltline and thereby traveling in a north-south direction and not in an east-west direction along Mineral Point Road. West of the Beltline, Menard's is willing to bear the cost of relocating the access to a central location on the south side and closing all other direct access points onto the south side of Mineral Point Road. Further, painted left turn bays would be added to the access road to Menard's and for left turns onto County