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AUG 2 21979 Baas 41 PACE409 COMMISSIONER LEESON EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT PROPERTY OWNERS WHO DO NOT REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. HE COMMENTED THAT THE NOTICE DOESN'T TELL THE PROPERTY OWNER THAT HE CANT ADD ON TO HIS HOUSE OR CAN T REBUILD IF IT SHOULD BURN, ETC, JOHN KERN INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE OWNS THE LAST LOT DOWN ON THE END OF 45TH STREET AND HAS OWNED IT FOR S OR 9 YEARS. HE STATED THAT HE HAD TALKED TO OTHER PEOPLE IN THE AREA, AND MOST OF THEM WERE IN FAVOR OF THE REZONING. HE DID NOT FEEL THIS AREA, WHICH IS IN BETWEEN JUNK YARDS, IS PROPERLY A PLACE FOR RESIDENTIAL HOMES AND THAT IT DOES NOTHING BUT BREED TROUBLE. HE STATED THAT HE HAD RENTALS THERE AT ONE TIME, BUT IT DIDNIT WORK OUT. HE FELT IT SHOULD TURN BACK TO ITS ORIGINAL INDUSTRIAL ZONING. MR. KERN STATED THAT IS WHY HE BOUGHT THE PROPERTY TO BEGIN WITH. THE REASON FOR PREVIOUSLY REZONING, TO R-2 WAS DISCUSSED, AND IT WAS FELT IT HAD BEEN DONE TO BRING THE HOMES INTO CONFORMITY. VICE CHAIRMAN Loy COMMENTED THAT THE PLANNING & ZONING MINUTES REFLECT THAT THE MAJORITY OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS AT THE PREVIOUS MEET- ING DID NOT OBJECT TO REZONING TO M-1. ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS COMMENTED THAT THE RIGHT OF WAY IS NOT MAINTAINED, AND THERE HAVE BEEN MANY DRAINAGE PROBLEMS IN THE AREA. COMMISSIONER SIEBERT ASKED MR. WEBB WHETHER HE DID NOT FEEL HIS PROPERTY WOULD BE MORE VALUABLE AS INDUSTRIAL, AND WHETHER HE WOULD WISH TO PUT ANOTHER SINGLE FAMILY HOME ON HIS PROPERTY IF THE PRESENT ONE SHOULD BE DESTROYED FOR ANY REASON. MR. WEBB STATED THAT HE WOULD REBUILD. HE NOTED THAT HIS DAUGHTER, ROSE SMITH, LIVES IN THIS AREA AND HAS JUST BOUGHT THE PROPERTY FROM MR. RODDENBERRY RECENTLY. THE VICE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF ANYONE FURTHER WISHED TO BE HEARD. THERE WERE NONE, MS, LANCASTER NOTED THAT IT WAS BROUGHT OUT AT THE PLANNING & ZONING MEETING THAT IF ANYONE WISHED TO ADD TO THEIR HOUSE, THEY COULD DO SO BY GOING TO THE VARIANCE BOARD. COULD MAKE AN ADDITION. THEY COULDN'T REBUILD, BUT THEY ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LYONS, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING.