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MURPHY DESMC JD L A W Y ER S 20 February 2006 Ms. Carmen Skjolaas Plan Commission Town of Pleasant Springs 2354 County Road North Stoughton, WI 53589 Re: Koua and Dia M. Vang Development of Lot 3, CSM 3667, Town of Pleasant Springs Dear Ms. Skjolaas: Manchester Place 2 East Mifflin Street, Suite 800 Madison, Wisconsin 53703-4217 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 2038 Madison, Wisconsin 53701-2038 Telephone (608) 257-7181 www_ m urphydesmond.com Ronald M. Trachtenberg Direct Line (608) 268-5575 Facsimile (608) 257-2508 rtrachtenberg@murphydesmond.com We understand that the action of the Plan Commission to place on file the preliminary request of Mr. and Ms. Vang to rezone Lot 3, CSM 3667, Town of Pleasant Springs (but providing them 180 days to file a new preliminary request without paying a new application fee) will be considered by the Town Board at its meeting on Wednesday, February 22, 2006. Mr. Vang will attend the Town Board meeting simply to monitor the action of the Town Board. Mr. and Ms. Vang will be submitting a revised preliminary zoning request within the 180 day period which we believe will be consistent with the Plan Commission's comments of January 11, 2006. However, we did want to clear up two items, those being the location of the easement serving the Vang property as well as whether or not the Vang parcel is a legally existing parcel. The Vang parcel was created by Certified Survey Map 3667 (document number 1700857) which was recorded in the Office of the Dane County Register of Deeds on March 25, 1981. A copy of that Certified Survey Map is enclosed herewith. The Vang parcel is Lot 3 of that Certified Survey Map and consists of 29.86 acres of land. In 1981, parcels 15 acres or more could be created without having direct highway street frontage of 66 feet as long as there was an easement to the otherwise landlocked parcel. Please note that Norb Scribner approved Certified Survey Map 3667 thereby acknowledging that Lot 3 of that Certified Survey Map was in fact legally created. Please also note that under present Dane County ordinances, such "landlocked" parcels must be at least 35 acres in size to be legally created, but the 15 acre rule did not become the 35 acre rule until 1997. Therefore, the Vang parcel is a legal pre-existing nonconforming parcel. In 2004, the owner of Lot 1 of Certified Survey Map 3667 desired to subdivide that lot. That subdivision was accomplished by Certified Survey Map 11192, document number