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I <br />UNIVERSITY' of PENNSYL <br />�� <br />f 3 <br />School of Arts and Sciences VAN � 1998 <br />Department of Anthropology eU <br />325 University Museum RNA <br />33rd and Spruce Street ZONING Philadelphia, PA 19104-6398 ONING <br />Tel: 215-898-7461 <br />Fax: 215-898-7462 <br />January 19, 1998 <br />Burnett County Zoning Administration <br />Burnett County Government Center <br />7410 County Road K, #102 <br />Siren, WI 54872 <br />Dear Burnett County Zoning Administration <br />In compliance with applicable laws and the county zoning ordinance, it has been <br />and is the intent of our family to subdivide our North Sand Lake property into two lots as <br />the property passes from our mother's estate into ownership by the children. <br />Our mother, Ruth S. Hammarberg, died on August 2, 1996. As appropriate, we <br />began the subdivision process after consulting with attorneys for the estate and securing <br />my appointment at personal representative. The subdivision required several steps, <br />including an appraisal of the property for purposes of federal estate taxes, an assessment <br />of the feasibility of a second building lot by the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) <br />and the county Zoning Administration (Zoning), and a determination of the legally - <br />defined and surveyed property boundaries. We followed these steps in their appointed <br />order as expeditiously as possible and with full consultation among all concerned parties. <br />Efforts to appraise the property, with the intention of subdivision in view, were <br />initiated toward the end of August 1996, and the appraisal was completed by September <br />26, 1996. Craig Solum Associates were the appraisers and they employed the property <br />boundaries as understood at the time. <br />In the period of October and November, 1996, I consulted by telephone with both <br />John Haack of DNR and Jim Flanigan, county Zoning Administrator, regarding the <br />feasibility of building on a 100' parcel east of the present cabin, and received from Mr. <br />Haack a letter dated November 20, 1996 indicating his view that "there is ample room for <br />you (or a potential buyer) to avoid the wetland and still have access, sewer and a building <br />site." He reiterated that I needed to contact Jim Flanigan regarding the zoning laws, <br />which I did by telephone on December 6, 1996 (telephone log). Mr. Haack's letter was <br />copied to Mr. Flanigan as well. I therefore believe (and believed) that both men were <br />fully informed of our intentions to subdivide the property from the outset. <br />All due speed in the work of surveying property boundaries sometimes requires <br />that several parties must participate, so that the legal records accurately reflect the iron <br />markers/monuments on the land. My letter of January 10, 1997, indicates that we <br />secured the services of Mr. Michael Norton, surveyor, and summarizes our steps to that <br />point. Mr. Norton was recommended to us very highly as a person of utmost integrity <br />