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activities are now being questioned by certain property owners associations. - In 1969 this Commission recommended to the City Council and the Board of County. Commissioners that a professional planner - be hired, given an office and staff, and carry out tasks assigned to him . s by the City Council and the Board of County Commissioners. In effect, the Planner had two bosses, the City and the County. To avoid friction, It was determined that the City and County would work through the Joint Planning Commission. It .was agreed that the cost of this operation would be split 50 - 50 between'the County and the City and -appropriate resolu- tions were passed by both the Board of County I Commissioners(Resolu- tion No. 69-71) and the City Council (Resolution No. 2116) to hire a - planner and split the costs. This Planning Commission has continued to operate on this basis through the present time. This Commission ' has made requests three times for State and Federal assistance grants I for planning. Each of these requests were approved by appropriate. resolutions by both the City and County. LEGAL: The first statutory authority for zoning by the Board of County Commissionexsof Indian River County was Chapter 21310)Special Acts of 1941. The purpose.of this act was to allow the Board of County bomniissionersto establish a Zoning Commission and regulate zoning within the unincorporated areas of the County. This act was not imple- mented until 1957 when the first Zoning Resolution was passed and dis- tricts were established. In the meantime the Legislature had passed Chapter 133, General Laws of Florida establishing a procedure for- all counties to control zoning. Chapter 133 excluded those counties al- ready having local or special acts granting this authority and Indian River County continued to operate under Chapter 21310 and Chapter 71-14 until Chapter 21310 was repealed in 1973. Chapter 21310 gave the Board of County' Commissioners