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9 <br />r <br />COMMISSIONER LYONS ASKED WHETHER HE WOULD FEEL THE SAME IF THE <br />STRIP TO BE REZONED WERE ON THE EAST SIDE OF I-95, AND MR. GRAVES STATED <br />THAT HE WOULD STILL ARGUE THE POINT, BUT WOULD NOT FEEL QUITE SO STRONGLY <br />ABOUT IT AS HE WOULD NOT FEEL IT WAS, DISCRIMINATORY. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT POINTED OUT THAT AGRICULTURAL IS A <br />HOLDING ZONE AND NOT A PERMANENT USE OF THE LAND. THE BOARD RECOGNIZES <br />THAT THERE IS A TIME WHEN IT BECOMES ECONOMICALLY UNFEASIBLE TO DEVELOP <br />LAND IN CITRUS, AND THIS IS A HOLDING ZONE WHICH CAN BE CONVERTED AT A <br />FUTURE DATE, <br />MR. -GRAVES STATED THAT HE WOULD RATHER HOLD IT THE WAY IT IS <br />PRESENTLY HELD. HE NOTED THAT AT ONE MEETING HO PEOPLE WERE PRESENT, <br />ALL WITH THE SAME VIEWPOINT. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED IF SIR. GRAVES WOULD FEEL BETTER <br />ABOUT IT IF THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN SHOWED THE GENERAL VICINITY <br />AS BEING COMMERCIAL, WHICH WOULD MAKE IT EASIER TO GET A REZONING LATER <br />AND MR. GRAVES STATED THAT WOULD BE A POOR SECOND CHOICE. <br />C. REED KNIGHT, JR., NEXT APPEARED AND NOTED THAT HE HAD A <br />PIECE OF PROPERTY HE SOLI} IN THIS AREA AND SOLD IT ON THE PRETENSE IT <br />WAS COMMERCIAL. HE ALSO NOTED THAT AT A MEETING HELD A FEW WEEKS AGO <br />ABOUT HO PEOPLE WERE PRESENT, AND NO ONE WAS IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE <br />COMMERCIAL ZONING. HE STATED THAT THE PLANNING & ZONING BOARD HELD THE <br />MEETING, AND IT WAS PRETTY APPARENT TO MOST PEOPLE THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT <br />TO BE CONFUSED BY THE FACTS AND THAT THEIR MINDS WERE MADE UP BEFORE THEY <br />CAME TO THE MEETING. HE STATED THAT HE ASKED THEM IF THEY WERE AWARE <br />OF THE FACT THAT OSLO ROAD WAS PROPOSED TO BE PAVED OUT TO THE DIKE LINE. <br />HE DID NOT FEEL ANYONE REALLY HAD ANY OBJECTION WEST OF THE INDIAN RIVER <br />FARMS DIKE LINE AND NOTED THAT OCEAN SPRAY IS IN THERE, AND THE PRISON <br />AND THE DISPOSAL AREA, HE FURTHER NOTED THAT THERE IS A RED LIGHT ON <br />RANGE LINE ROAD AND OSLO NOW, .AND THE AREA IS BUILDING UP. MR. KNIGHT <br />STATED THAT HE DIDNIT WISH TO HAVE LOTS OF LITTLE COMMERCIAL AREAS ALL <br />OVER THE COUNTY, BUT FELT THIS PARTICULAR AREA IS DEFINITELY AN INDUSTRIAL <br />AREA. AS TO THIS BEING A TEMPORARY HOLDING ZONE, HE STATED THAT <br />ONE OF THE COMPLAINTS THE VARIANCE BOARD HAS IS THAV IT IS COSTLY AND TIME <br />CONSUMING TO CHANGE BACK AND FORTH FROM AGRICULTURAL TO INDUSTRIAL. <br />.4 <br />