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CHAIRMAN WODTKE NOTED THAT THIS IS A PRIMARY CITRUS AREA AND 0 THERE IS NECESSARILY A GREAT AMOUNT OF SPRAYING, IRRIGATION, ETC, THAT MUST BE DONE, AND HE FELT THE 'PRIMARY USE OF THE LAND IS A VERY IMPORTANT FACTOR TO CONSIDER, COMMISSIONER SIEBERT STATED THAT HE DOES NOT FEEL R-lE IS COMPATIBLE IN THIS AREA AND WOULD ALSO LIKE TO GET RID OF THE COMMERCIAL ZONING, WHICH WE CANNOT DO AT THIS TIME, BUT CAN ONLY ASK THE ZONING T'•OARD TO LOOK AT IT, VAL BRENNAN, COUNTY PLANNER, INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THEIR STUDIES ON WABASSO ROAD ARE DONE AND READY FOR PRESENTATION TO THE ZONING COMMISSION, AND THEY ARE RECOMMENDING AGRICULTURAL ZONING, CHAIRMAN WODTKE STATED THAT IF ANY COMMISSIONER WISHED TO VOTE FOR DENIAL OF THE REZONING, HE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEIR REASON IN THE MINUTES COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER STATED HIS REASON IS THAT THE AREA IS ALMOST ENTIRELY AGRICULTURAL AND THE FACT THAT THERE IS A COMMERCIAL STRIP TliERE NOW DOES NOT AFFECT THE SITUATION BECAUSE WE KNOW WE ALREADY HAVE T00 MUCH COMMZRCIAL ZONING IN THE COUNTY AND STRIP ZONING IS OUT- DATED. COMMISSIONER DEESON AGREED. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT ONE OF THE PARTIES OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED REZONING IS A STOCKHOLDER IN THE 0 COMPANY HE WORKS FOR, AND HE IS, THEREFORE, ASKING THE ATTORNEY FOR ADVICE AS TO WHAT HE SHOULD DO. HE STATED THAT HE HAS NO FINANCIAL INTEREST AND WAS PREVIOUSLY ADVISED THAT WHEN HE HAS NO DIRECT FINANCIAL INTEREST, HE IS OBLIGED TO VOTE. ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT THE FACT HAS BEEN DECLARED AND THE BOARD HAS SET UP POLICIES IN THE PAST, AND HE WOULD SUGGEST COMMISSIONER SIEBERT FOLLOW THE PROCEDURE SET UP BY THE BOARD, FILE THE NECESSARY PAPERS AND ABSTAIN FROM VOTING, COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ON THE ADVICE OF COUNSEL LEFT THE COMMIS- SION ROOM WHILE VOTING TOOK PLACE, THE ATTORNEY WILL DETERMINE WHETHER AN AFFIDAVIT NEED BE FILED IN THIS MATTER. . 25 NOV 171976 . et� �7 . ..2 50