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AMENITIES OF CIVILIZATION, BUT IT ALSO HAS RAMPANT CRIME, HORRIBLE <br />TRAFFIC FACILITIES, HORRIBLE POLLUTION, TERRIBLE TAXES, ETC. HE <br />LEFT AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE AND SELECTED INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, AND <br />HE URGED THAT THE BOARD NOT CAUSE HIM TO EMIGRATE AGAIN. <br />GORDON JOHNSTON WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. <br />ATTORNEY ROBERT .JACKSON SPOKE REPRESENTING DR. .JONES AND <br />MR. MURPHY WHO OWN 57 ACRES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE INDIAN RIVER <br />JUST SOUTH OF THE MAIN RELIEF CANAL. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT <br />THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY HAS BEEN A YACHT BASIN FOR MANY YEARS AND <br />WAS REZONED SOME YEARS AGO TO ALLOW A MARINA, THE DENSITIES BEING <br />LOWERED AT THAT TIME FROM 15 UNITS PER ACRE TO 8. DURING MANY <br />YEARS THIS PROPERTY WAS MD -1, THE SAME AS THE PLAN SHOWS FOR THE <br />PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH, AND UP UNTIL THE LAST HEARING AND AFTER, THE <br />PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT HAD RECOMMENDED THIS FOR MD -1, <br />OR S UNITS PER ACRE WHICH IT IS TODAY, THE ZONING LINE WAS PULLED <br />DOWN A MILE FROM THE NATURAL BARRIER OF THE NORTH RELIEF CANAL TO <br />LINDSEY ROAD, AND THIS PROPERTY.WAS INCLUDED IN THE LD -1 CATEGORY, <br />OR 3 UNITS PER ACRE. ALL OF THIS LAND IS NOW ABUTTED ON U.S. 1 BY <br />MXD FOR 16 UNITS PER ACRE, AND AT THE BOTTOM IS THE MXD FOR THE <br />GIFFORD AREA, AND ALSO MD -1. ATTORNEY .JACKSON DID NOT FEEL GOOD <br />ZONING PRACTICE WOULD CALL FOR SUCH AN ABRUPT CHANGE BETWEEN <br />DENSITIES, AND ASKED THAT THE BOARD GIVE DUE CONSIDERATION TO <br />LEAVING THIS PROPERTY AT ITS PRESENT MD -1. <br />ATTORNEY B. T. COOKSEY APPEARED REPRESENTING THREE INDIVIDUALS <br />AND ONE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON THE LAND USE <br />PLAN. HE NOTED THAT ATTORNEY GORDON .JOHNSTON, WHO COULD NOT BE <br />PRESENT, HAD PLANNED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR MR, HATALA, WHO <br />OWNS PROPERTY IN THE SAME LOCATION JUST DISCUSSED BY ATTORNEY <br />.JACKSON, AND ATTORNEY COOKSEY'S CLIENTS, MR. AND MRS. LUTHER OWN <br />THE LAND IN BETWEEN THE HATALA LAND AND ATTORNEY JACKSON'S CLIENTS. <br />THEY ALL CONCUR THAT TO CUT OFF THE MD -1 AT LINDSEY ROAD INSTEAD <br />OF CARRYING IT UP TO THE NATURAL BARRIER OF THE NORTH RELIEF CANAL <br />IS NOT WELL ADVISED AND REQUEST THAT THIS BE RECONSIDERED. <br />ATTORNEY COOKSEY STATED THAT SEC0NDLY HE WAS REPRESENTING <br />VIRGINIA WALKER RUSSELL AND EVA C. WALKER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE <br />SEP 1 1981 sooX 47 PAGE 320 <br />