McFarland High School, McFarland Welcome to the first Citizen Land Use Conference for Dane County. There is one strong similarity between this and other land use conferences we have all attended.
Conferences occur because of lots of hard work.
And in this case, lots of incredibly hard, effective, volunteer work. The folks who did the most work and have been planning this conference since last fall are the Dane County Citizen Land Use Commission. On behalf of all of us enjoying and learning at today s conference, thanks to Arlen, Linda, and all the rest of the Commission. They were ably supported by Dane County staff including Pam Porter of my staff, Jeanie Sieling, our Planning Director, Jan Zimmermann who juggled working on this at the same time as our state park proposal to improve our park system and getting her daughter ready for college, and Majid Allan of our Planning Department. Many of us have attended lots of land use conferences on lots of Saturdays here in Dane County but there is a big difference about this one.