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Conditional Use Permit Application for 2279 Dahlk Circle, Verona, WI 53593 Statement of Intent and Operations Plan, April 21, 2021 Dahlk Circle is a residential neighborhood in the Town of Springdale off of County Highway G between Highway 18/151 and Mount Vernon. The neighborhood consists of 20 plus private residences, each with acreage and many with existing accessory buildings. Our private property, in which we are proposing conditional use, is over 5 acres and includes our private residence. We, Ryan Malmgren and Stacey Rieu, are a married couple who own a small business called Mad Sails. We manufacture sails for sailboats, and we occasionally do sail repairs. We typically work Monday through Friday anywhere from 6 am until 6 pm. Spring is our busiest season when we work seven days per week. Since we self employed we can flex our schedules as needed. Locally, since Wisconsin is full of lakes, we are visited by a handful of customers each year, and we are strictly by appointment only. We do not want signage or advertising that would attract traffic and walk-ins. We are not a retail type store. Our products are advertised online on our website www.madsails.com. The majority of our products are shipped via UPS within the United States or hand delivered by us at a sailboat regatta. We make two to three trips to Postal Connections in Verona each week to drop boxes off for UPS to deliver to the customer. There are additional expenses associated with having UPS pick up parcels, so we opt to avoid those charges. UPS, FedEx and USPS deliver boxes of supplies to us between two and four times per week. The number of deliveries and shipments vary seasonally. Sailmaking in a nutshell: Start with a roll of polyester, nylon or laminate sailcloth and roll it onto a long table. Place a pattern over top, make marks in pen or pencil, remove the pattern and cut the panel out with scissors. When all of the panels are cut for a particular sail, use special lightweight double-sided tape to stick the panels together. Use an industrial sewing machine to stitch each seam. Reinforcements are placed on each of the three corners and various grommets or thimbles are attached. Bolt rope is stitched on when needed. Webbing hanks are sometimes installed. Sail numbers and logos are adhered. Each sail comes with a storage bag, and we manufacture these in house as well. Sailmaking does not produce loud noise, noxious odors, dust, runoff or pollution. We do not use or create hazardous, toxic or explosive materials. Our dream is to be able to have our sail loft within the proposed a 30' x 56' Cleary building on our property. (A facility where sails are made is called a sail loft.) Cleary is an expert in building construction, so they will erect the building in compliance with county standards. When our budget allows, we will hire licensed professionals to install electricity and HVAC. In a perfect world we would love to install a small bathroom with toilet and utility sink. That is a bigger expense, therefore we would like to reserve the option to do so for future possibility. We would probably install a standard outdoor light near the building entrance. This would not emit any more light disturbance than your average porch light. With five acres there is a lot of space and trees for light to dissipate between us and our neighbors. If we decide in the future to add a sign it would be adhered to the walk entry door of the building where it would only be visible if someone comes down the driveway. The entire business of sailmaking is largely and indoor trade. We will not store any materials outside. Waste is minimal and light. Empty cardboard tubes and other waste paper are placed in our weekly recycling. Sailcloth scraps go into a plastic trash bag. We dispose of one to two bags of lightweight trash per week. it