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Ll <br />r <br />THE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHED TO BE HEARD, <br />ATTORNEY GORDON .JOHNSTON OF SHARP & .JOHNSTON APPEARED REPRESENT- <br />ING MR, CUMMINGS, MR, DANCY, MR, STOWE AND GRAVES BROS, CO., SURROUNDING <br />PROPERTY OWNERS, AND STATED THAT THEIR BASIC OBJECTION IS THAT THE ENTIRE <br />SURROUNDING AREA IS CITRUS AND NOTED THAT IF THE BOARD DID TAKE THE <br />PLANNING DEPARTMENT'S RECOMMENDATION AND CHANGED THE C-1 STRIP ZONING TO <br />AGRICULTURAL, R -1E IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE USE OF THE SURROUNDING <br />PROPERTY, HE NOTED THAT ALLOWING RESIDENCES IN A CITRUS AREA CAUSES MANY <br />PROBLEMS, INCLUDING NOISE FROM TRACTORS, MOWING MACHINES, PUMPING, AND <br />AERIAL SPRAY APPLICATIONS, HE CONTINUED THAT HE REPRESENTS ABOUT 90% OF <br />THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY OWNERS, ALL OF WHOM HAVE SUBSTANTIAL ACREAGE IN <br />GROVES, <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED ANOTHER PROBLEM IS THAT PICKING <br />CREWS GO OUT EARLY IN THE MORNING AND WILL BE WORKING NEXT TO THE PROPOSED <br />EXPENSIVE RESIDENTIAL HOMES, <br />ATTORNEY STEWART STATED THAT HE DID NOT FEEL THE REQUESTED <br />REZONING IS OUT OF LINE, PARTICULARLY IN VIEW OF THE WAY THE PROPERTY IS <br />PRESENTLY ZONED, <br />CHAIRMAN WODTKE AGREED THAT C-1 IS NOT APPROPRIATE, BUT STATED <br />HE DID NOT NECESSARILY FEEL THAT R-lE IS EITHER, <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />DEESON, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING, <br />COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER STATED THAT HE FELT THE MAIN POINT IS <br />THAT THE AREA IS ALREADY PRACTICALLY ALL AGRICULTURAL AND THE FACT THAT <br />IT IS ZONED C-1 DOESN'T MATTER, BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T FEASIBLY DEVELOP IT <br />COMMERCIALLY ANYHOW, <br />MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, SECONDED BY <br />COMMISSIONER DEESON, TO DENY THE REQUEST OF KEITH MARTIN FOR REZONING <br />FROM C-1 TO R -1E, <br />COMMISSIONER Loy STATED THAT SHE CERTAINLY RESPECTS THE CITRUS <br />PEOPLE IN THE AREA, BUT WOULD FEEL THAT COMMERICAL ZONING WOULD BE EVEN <br />MORE DISTASTEFUL THAN R-lE, SHE ALSO FELT THE GENTLEMAN WHO OWNS THE <br />PROPERTY HAS A RIGHT TO DEVELOP AND BELIEVED THAT R-lE IS MORE COMPATIBLE <br />TO THE AREA THAN C-1, <br />24 <br />Nov171976 <br />_._ 27 �: 249 <br />not <br />