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nu 2 JESSE WASHBURN OF 2050 1414TH AVENUE.CAME FORWARD AND STATED THAT HE BOUGHT HIS PROPERTY FROM MRS. CRUZE AND HAS LIVED THERE SINCE THE FALL OF 1968. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT WHEN HE BOUGHT THIS PRO— PERTY, MRS, CRUZE HAD A FEW PLANTS ON HER PROPERTY, A SMALL PILE OF SAND AND SOME HIBISCUS IN QUART CANS, COVERING AN AREA 10'OR 15'r SQUARE, AS FAR AS HE KNEW, SHE WAS NOT SELLING ANY PLANTS AT THAT TIME, BUT HE COULD NOT STATE THAT SHE DID OR DID NOT, HE NOTED THAT HE HAD THOUGHT IT SEEMED MORE LIKE A HOBBY, ATTORNEY O TE ILL ASKED IMR , WASHBURN IF THERE WERE THEN ANY SIGNS ADVERTISING PLANTS FOR SALE, WHETHER MRS. CRUZE HAD LARGE SACKS OF FERTILIZER OR STATUARY FOR SALE, AND WHETHER SHE HIRED ANY EMPLOYEES, MR. WASHBURN STATED THAT NONE OF THESE THINGS WERE THERE WHEN HE BOUGHT HIS PROPERTY, AND MRS. CRUZE ALONE WORKED WITH THE PLANTS ON HER PROPERTY AT THAT TIME; NOW, HOWEVER, HE SEES A LOT OF PEOPLE WORKING ON THE PROPERTY, AND THERE ARE TWO TRUCKS ON THE PREMISES THAT SAY "GOLF ACRES NURSERY." ATTORNEY O TEILL PRESENTED TO THE BOARD RECENT PICTURES OF THE PROPERTY AND ASKED MR. WASHBURN IF HE WAS AWARE OF THE ZONING CHA14GE FROM R-1 TO R -2A MADE IN 1969 SO THAT IMRS. CRUZE COULD BUILD A DUPLEX ON HER PROPERTY, MR. WASHBURN STATED THAT HE WAS, AND AT MRS. CRUZE'S REQUEST, HAD WRITTEN THE ZONING BOARD THAT -HE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE ZONING CHANGE. ATTORNEY O'NEILL POINTED OUT THAT MR, WASHBURN HAD NO OBJECTIONS AS THERE WERE NO PROBLEMS WITH A COMMERCIAL NURSERY AT THAT TIME. ATTORNEY O'NEILL THEN ASKED MR. WASHBURN IF THERE HAS BEEN A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE IN PEOPLE COMING TO.THE PROPERTY TO BUY PLANTS AND ALSO WHETHER MRS. CRUZE HAS EXPANDED OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DRAINAGE DISTRICT RIGHT—OF--WAY. MR. WASHBURN STATED THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE HAS INCREASED SUB— STANTIALLY AND THAT MRS, CRUZE DID EXPAND OVER TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DRAINAGE DISTRICT RIGHT—OF—WAY, PROBABLY IN 19714 OR 1975. JAN 1978 7 BCOK V �'r�"E U