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9 <br />VINCENT QUAY INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE OWNS PROPERTY ABOUT <br />1,000' WEST OF 43RD AVENUE ON THE SOUTH SIDE. WHEN HE BOUGHT THIS <br />PROPERTY IT WAS COMMERCIAL. HE CONTINUED THAT HE HAD TO TEAR DOWN ABOUT <br />1500 TREES BECAUSE OF SOME INFECTION, AND IT WOULD NOT PAY HIM TO PUT A <br />GROVE IN AT HIS AGE. HE FELT THE PROPOSED REZONING WOULD DOWNGRADE HIS <br />PROPERTY AND THAT HE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GIVE IT AWAY. IF IT REMAINED <br />COMMERCIAL, HE COULD BUILD MINI -WAREHOUSES, ETC., AND HE, THEREFORE, <br />WISHED TO HAVE HIS 40 ACRE TRACT REMAIN ZONED COMMERCIAL. <br />COMMISSIONER SIEBERT NOTED THAT MR. QUAY HAD THIS PROPERTY UP <br />FOR SALE WHEN IT WAS COMMERCIAL AND THERE WERE NO TAKERS. <br />MR. QUAY STATED THAT HE HAD A HIGHER PRICE ON IT FOR COMMERCIAL, <br />AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT FELT, IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT NOBODY DID PURCHASE <br />IT, IT WOULD INDICATE THERE REALLY ISN'T THE DEMAND FOR COMMERCIAL IN <br />THAT AREA. <br />PATSY HELSETH CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AND STATED THAT SHE AND <br />HER HUSBAND OWN EO ACRES IN THIS AREA AND WISH TO GO ON RECORD AS OPPOSING <br />THE PROPOSED REZONING. SHE NOTED THAT THEY ARE OLD TIMERS AND HAVE HAD <br />GROVES HERE SINCE THEY WERE STARTED AND THEY FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT <br />THE WHOLE THING. THEIR PROPERTY IS ON BOTH THE SOUTH AND NORTH SIDES OF <br />OSLO ROAD. <br />REED KNIGHT, SR., COMMENTED THAT MOST OF THIS CITRUS GROVE IS <br />OLD GROVE AND IS ON THE WAY OUT. SOME OF IT IS FROM 40 TO SO YEARS OLD. <br />THE NEW GROVES ARE ON LAND THAT IS UNDESIRABLE BECAUSE DOLLARS ARE <br />INVOLVED. HE NOTED THAT THEY HAVE OFFERED MORE MONEY THAN CITRUS PRICE <br />FOR PROPERTY NEAR THE INDUSTRIAL AREA, AND OTHER LAND THEY TRIED TO BUY <br />HAS BEEN PULLED OFF THE MARKET. MR. KNIGHT STATED THAT.WHEN YOU CHANGE <br />THE ZONING DOWN, YOU DEVALUATE. HE THEN SPOKE OF PEOPLE SPECULATING FROM <br />LOOKING AT THE LAND USE i•IAP. <br />COMMISSIONER Loy WISHED TO HEAR DISCUSSION ON 43RD AVENUE AND <br />FELT THAT PART OF.IT IS GOOD LOCATION FOR COMMERCIAL. <br />MR. REDICK STATED THAT THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A NEW COMPRE- <br />HENSIVE PLAN AND ARE IN THE PROCESS OF DOING A LAND USE CAPABILITY <br />ANALYSIS TO TRY TO DETERMINE FEASIBILITY AND WHAT THE BEST USES ARE. <br />NOV 211978 <br />BOOK 37 FnE392' 39 <br />