If the circumstances were different, it might be easy to side with some folks in the Town of Dunn in Dane County concerned about a proposed development. They fear that the development – a 520,000-foot facility employing up to 300 people – will interfere with the quiet rural nature of their community.
But the development isn’t a mall or some run-of-the-mill big-box store. On the contrary, it would be a high-security world-class federal laboratory to study animal illnesses, such as foot-and-mouth disease and bird flu. And the University of Wisconsin officials pushing for it didn’t settle on the site by tossing a dart at a map.