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EMPHASIS HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE PRIMARY CITRUS, AND THE STAFF DOES FEEL IT IS IMPORTANT THAT THE COUNTY RESERVE AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN THE FUTURE. THEY ALSO FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT IT WILL BE CRITICAL TO TRY AND DEFINE A CITRUS LINE SUCH AS WE HAVE NOW, PERHAPS SLIGHTLY VARIED, IN ORDER TO CONTAIN URBAN SPRAWL BECAUSE IF YOU ALLOW URBAN SPRAWL, YOUR TAX COSTS SKY ROCKET. MR. MARSH BELIEVED THAT THE CITRUS LINE WAS ESTABLISHED BOTH BY EXTENSIVE FIELD INSPEC- TION AND AERIAL PHOTOS, AND FURTHER NOTED THAT THE ACREAGE NUMBERS REFERRED TO FROM THE ADLEY REPORT WERE FOR LAND ACTUALLY IN USE.- NOT SE.NOT ZONING. THE ADLEY REPORT DETERMINED THAT 32,000 ACRES OF LAND WERE ZONED RESIDENTIAL, OF WHICH 3,000 SOME ACRES WERE DEVELOPED. HEARD. CHAIRMAN SIEBERT ASKED IF ANYONE PRESENT WISHED TO BE RAY SCENT, REALTOR, STATED THAT HE WAS A PART OF THE DEVEL- OPMENT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN AS WERE MANY REALTORS, AND IT WORRIED HIM,WHEN THEY STARTED COLORING IN THE MAP,THAT THERE WERE NO SHADED AREAS. HE ALSO QUESTIONED THAT FACT THAT THE TERM "HOLDING ZONE" WAS NOT DEFINED IN THE ORDINANCE AND, THEREFORE, ACTUALLY WAS INVALID, BUT CONTINUED THAT THEY WERE ASSURED WE HAD AN AGRICULTURAL HOLDING ZONE WHICH IN THE FUTURE COULD BE REZONED TO OTHER CLASSI- FICATIONS AS THE NEED AROSE. MR. SCENT STATED THAT HE OBJECTED TO THE ARBITRARY DRAWING OF THE "MAGIC" PRIMARY CITRUS LINE, AND HE FELT THE GLENN PROPERTY SHOULD BE REZONED TO R -IAA. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER LOY, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER DEESON, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER Loy, SECONDED BY COMMIS- SIONER DEESON, TO ADOPT ORDINANCE 80-20 GRANTING THE REZONING TO R -IAA AS REQUESTED BY WILLIAM AND HELEN GLENN FOR THR REASONS THAT THE R -IAA CLASSIFICATION IS A MUCH HIGHER ZONING THAN THE ADJOINING PROPERTY AND THE AGRICULTURAL ZONING ALWAYS HAS BEEN LOOKED ON BY THIS BOARD AS A HOLDING ZONE. COMMISSIONER Loy COMMENTED THAT THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN HAS BEEN USED BY THIS BOARD EVER SINCE IT WAS ADOPTED STRICTLY AS A PLAN, AND WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO CHANGE THAT PLAN AS WE HAVE REQUESTS AND DEMONSTRATED NEEDS IN FRONT OF US. SHE BELIEVED THAT THE REZONING OF THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY AS SUBMITTED AND PRE- SENTED IS IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF THE COUNTY. APR 2 31980 103 51 a. �A� :