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DEWEY WALKER, ZONING DIRECTOR, APPEARED BEFORE THE BOARD <br />TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION EXISTING AT THE FORMER HIBISCUS AIRPORT, <br />WHICH HAD BEEN REZONED FROM INDUSTRIAL TO R-2 MULTIPLE FAMILY IN 1973. <br />HE STATED MR. ORTH HAS CONTINUED TO USE THE BUILDINGS AND A LOT OF <br />PEOPLE WANT HIM CLOSED DOWN FOR VIOLATION OF THE R-2 ZONING, BUT HE <br />HASN'T CLOSED HIM DOWN BECAUSE THIS IS A NON -CONFORMING USE AND HE WOULD <br />LIKE SOME DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD TO STRAIGHTEN THIS PROBLEM OUT. <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE STATED THAT HE FELT THEY ARE "GRAND- <br />FATHERED" IN, AND HE BELIEVED IT WAS THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE PEOPLE <br />AT HIBISCUS AIR PARK THAT THEY WOULD BE ALLOWED TO CONTINUE THE USE OF <br />THE BUILDINGS AFTER THE ZONING WAS CHANGED. HE SAID HE DID NOT KNOW <br />WHAT THE SPECIFIC COMPLAINTS WERE, BUT SUGGESTED THAT POSSIBLY DIGGING <br />A CULVERT TO STOP THE TRAFFIC THAT RUNS DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE AIRFIELD <br />MIGHT HELP, <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT REMARKED THAT HE DID NOT FEEL YOU ARE <br />"GRAND -FATHERED" IN ON A CHANGE OF ZONING, <br />W. E. "KINKY" ORTH OF INDIAN RIVER FLYING SERVICE APPEARED <br />AND INFORMED.THE BOARD THAT THEY HAD CHANGED THE ZONING TO R-2 BECAUSE <br />OF THE CONSTANT BICKERING ABOUT THE INDUSTRIAL ZONING, HE CONTINUED <br />THAT WHEN THEY SOLD THE 30 ACRES WHICH HAD BEEN REZONED TO R-2, THE <br />TAXES WENT UP ENORMOUSLY AND THEY NEEDED THE BUSINESS GRAND -FATHERED <br />IN FOR INCOME TO PAY THE TAXES, MR, ORTH STATED THAT BOTH MR. BRENNAN <br />AND ATTORNEY BURCH HAD ASSURED HIM THAT IT COULD BE GRAND -FATHERED IN <br />WITH THE STIPULATION THAT YOU COULDN'T ADD ON TO IT, HE ALSO STATED <br />THAT HE COULDN'T PUT A CULVERT ON ANOTHER MAN'S PROPERTY. . <br />VAL BRENNAN, PLANNING DIRECTOR, STATED THAT HE DID TELL <br />SMR. ORTH THAT THE HANGARS WOULD BECOME A NON -CONFORMING USE AND HE <br />COULD CONTINUE TO USE THEM, BUT HE COULD NOT EXPAND THE USE OF THE <br />BUILDINGS. <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED IN WHICH IT WAS DECIDED THAT "GRAND- <br />FATHERED" WAS THE WRONG WORD TO BE USED IN THIS SLTUATION, AND NON- <br />CONFORMING USES WERE DISCUSSED, <br />CHAIRMAN LOY ASKED IF THE OWNER HIMSELF CHANGES THE ZONING, <br />WOULD IT STILL BE A NON -CONFORMING USE? <br />IT WAS DECIDED THAT THIS WOULD NOT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. <br />-90- <br />SEP 2 41975 <br />Rook 3 F 469 <br />