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FACILITIES ON A CONTROLLED BASIS COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER STATED THAT HE DOUBTED THAT HE, AS AN INDIVIDUAL, WOULD BE ALLOWED TO PUT A PISTOL RANGE IN A RESIDENTIAL AREA. REVEREND ROBERT FOSTER OF THE TABERNACLE BAPTIST CHURCH, LOCATED NEAR THE AREA UNDER DISCUSSION, EXPRESSED FIRM OPPOSITION TO A PISTOL RANGE BEING ALLOWED. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THEY HAVE APPROXIMATELY 18 SCHOOL CHILDREN ROAMING THE CHURCH GROUNDS; THEY ALSO HAVE CHURCH SERVICES. FREQUENTLY AND HOLD SOCIAL FUNCTIONS ON THE GROUNDS. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED DBWEY WALKER, ZONING DIRECTOR, TO COMMENT ON ALLOWING A PISTOL RANGE IN RESIDENTIAL ZONING. MR. WALKER STATED THAT R-1 ZONING ALLOWS PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND CIVIC ORGANIZATIONS AND THERE WOULD BE NO VIOLATION. ATTORNEY COLLINS STATED THAT HE CONCURRED WITH THE ZONING DIRECTOR AS THE ORDINANCE ALLOWS PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS IN R-1 ZONING, AND IT IS MERELY A MATTER OF INTERPRETATION AS TO WHAT COULD BE ALLOWED IN A PARK. HE CONTINUED THAT IF THE BOARD DID NOT WANT THE PROPERTY USED AS A PISTOL RANGE, --T IS COULD BE INCLUDED IN THE LEASE, COUNTY COORDINATOR THOMAS STATED THAT THE REAL PROBLEM IS FINDING A BIG ENOUGH PIECE OF LAND IN AN ISOLATED SPOT. THE MAIN REASON FOR CHOOSING THE LAND UNDER DISCUSSION IS THAT NEITHER THE PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH NOR TO THE WEST IS CURRENTLY DEVELOPED, THE CHAIRMAN ASKED REVEREND FOSTER IF THERE WOULD BE ANY OBJECTION TO DEVELOPING THIS PROPERTY INTO A RECREATIONAL AREA IF A PISTOL RANGE WERE NOT INCLUDED. THE REVEREND SAID HE WOULD NOT OBJECT TO THAT. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED IN REGARD TO A COOPERATIVE USE OF THE CITY OF VERO BEACH PISTOL RANGE, AND CHAIRMAN SIEBERT STATED THAT HE WOULD NOT BE AVERSE TO IMPROVING THE EXISTING RANGE OR FINDING ANOTHER LOCATION, BUT DID NOT FEEL THE LOCATION REQUESTED IS PROPER FOR A PISTOL RANGE, COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF THE RECREATIONAL COMPLEX AND THE PISTOL RANGE COULD BE IN SEPARATE LOCATIONS. ApR -2 197 _. �... 5