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L n � I Agricultural Zoning Board of Indian River County, Florida, composed of the Board of County Commissioners as voting members and the County Tax Assessor and County Agent as non-voting ex officio members. Affiants were not notified when said Agricultural Zoning Board would meet nor when it woulc act upon Affiants' return and request and said Board has not requested any additional information as might reasonably be required to establish that said lands were actually used for a bona fide agricultural purpose; nevertheless, Affiants have learned that said Board did deny the request for agricultural zoning of said lands and said Tax Assessor has notified Affiants that by reason of that denial, the Assessor, in assessing said lands on the tax rolls of Indian River County, Florida, for the year 1970, will consider factors other than those relative to the use of such lands for agricultural purposes. Affiants respectfully petition said Agricultural Zoning Board to reconsider its actions and give Affiants the opportunity to be heard and to submit additional information as may be required to establish that said lands were actually primarily used for a bona fide agricultural purpose on January 1, 1970. The facts concerning the acquisition of said lands and their use by the owners are as follows: 1. For a period of many years, at least more than five, prior to the sale of said lands by Wilson & Wilson, Inc., said lands were used by J. Phil Hoyle in raising livestock. At the time of the transfer of the title of said property from Wilson & Wilson, Inc., to the present title holders in July, 1969, the present title holders did lease all of said lands to the same J. Phil Hoyle to continue until December 31, 1969, but that in truth and fact, the said J. Phil Hoyle did continue to use said lands through and beyond January 1, 1970, in exactly the same manner and to exactly the same extent as he had used said lands in prior years. In all of said prior years during the time that there was in operation an Agricultural Zoning Board in said county, said Board did zone all of such lands by virtue of such use as agricultural lands. 2. On October 15, 1969, the owners of said lands did enter into a lease with Carl F. L'Orange, whose address is 7765 Northwest Oak Street, Melbourne, Florida 32901. A true and correct copy of said lease was -2-,a �A1,,�)3 Smith, Heath, Smith & O'Halre, Attorneys At Law, P. O: Box 518, Vero Beach, Florida 3296 AUG 1,�