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APP 91980 900K 43 w 2l CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED ATTORNEY SULLIVAN JUST WHAT PURPOSE THERE WAS IN CHANGING THIS ZONING TO AGRICULTURAL IF MR. MACKENZIE'S INTENDED USES ARE EXACTLY AS STATED, AND ATTORNEY SULLIVAN BELIEVED THE MAJOR REASON IS A TAX REASON BECAUSE THE AGRICULTURAL ZONING WOULD RESULT IN LOWER TAXES ON THE PROPERTY. THE CHAIRMAN NOTED THAT AGRICULTURAL ZONING DOES NOT NECESSARILY MEAN A LOWER ASSESSMENT, AND MR. SULLIVAN COMMENTED THAT MR. MACKENZIE CAN PUT IN A GROVE AND GET THE AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION. COMMISSIONER Loy POINTED OUT THAT IF IT IS A BONA FIDE AGRICULTURAL'OPERATION, YOU CAN GET THE EXEMPTION REGARDLESS OF THE ZONING. ATTORNEY COLLINS COMMENTED THAT THE AD VALOREM TAX LAW HAS CHANGED LATELY, AND IT IS THE USE OF THE PROPERTY THAT IS OVERRIDING, NOT THE ZONING. HE FELT IF MR. MACKENZIE DID PLANT CITRUS, HE PROBABLY WOULD QUALIFY FOR AGRICULTURAL EXEMPTION, BUT WITH BARE LAND, HE WOULD NOT, REGARDLESS OF THE ZONING. KENNETH MACKENZIE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE WOULD LIKE HIS PARCEL TO BE ZONED BACK TO AGRICULTURAL, AND HE HAD THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A TAX SAVING FOR HIM. HE STATED THAT HE DOES NOT WISH TO SUBDIVIDE, BUT JUST WISHED TO BUILD HIS OWN HOME AND PUT THE TREES BACK, WHETHER CITRUS OR OAK. HE POINTED OUT THAT THE REST OF THE 80 ACRE TRACT, WHICH IS COMPLETELY SURROUNDED BY AGRICULTURAL, IS GOING TO BE SUBDIVIDED INTO ONE ACRE HOME SITES, AND HE FELT THIS IS A TOTAL PIECE OF SPOT ZONING DONE BY THE BOARD LESS THAN A YEAR AGO. HE CONTINUED THAT HE WAS TOLD THAT TO PUT IN A BREEDING KENNEL, HE WOULD HAVE TO BE IN AN AGRICULTURAL AREA. MR. MACKENZIE STATED THAT HE ONLY WISHED TO BREED VERY EXPENSIVE DOGS, AND R -IE ONLY ALLOWS FIVE DOGS FOR BREEDING. HE STATED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE ATTACK DOGS AND FELT THERE ARE DOGS PRESENTLY LOOSE IN THE NEIGHBOR- HOOD MORE DANGEROUS THAN ANY HE WOULD BREED, CHAIRMAN SIEBERT COMMENTED THAT THE BOARD HAD BEEN INFORMED THAT MR. MACKENZIE DID NOT INTEND TO PUT IN A KENNEL.