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F OCT 1 BOOK `47 Fa,F 673 Heath noted that there are people in this neighborhood building homes in the $200,000 range, and he did not feel 2h acres would be a shortage of property on which to build such a single residential unit. Attorney Heath emphasized that he has been intimately familiar with this community for a good many years and no one is trying to downgrade or in any way detract from the quality or appearance of the Fellsmere community. Attorney Heath urged that the Board give Ditch j 20 to Ditch 22 south and from the boundary line over to Park Lateral an RR designation. Mike Hagman, owner of a cattle feed lot on Ditch 20, was not in favor of putting two houses on every five acres and having residential too near agricultural, which he felt would give rise to complaints about the odors from his feed lot. Jack Powell, resident of Ditch 20, also opposed RR for this area noting that those who built $200,000 homes in this area did it for privacy and they want to keep it agricultural. Mr. Powell also expressed concern about the effect of such a designation on the water situation. Discussion continued re having further RR in this area, and Mrs. Wilson noted that quite a bit of the land in this area has been sold in tracts of 5 acres and larger, and these people are concerned. Ray Scent, local realtor, commented that if the records are checked, you will find that many of these so-called 5 acre tracts actually are 4.6 and 4.8 acres, and it may well be that you could not build on them without a variance. Discussion ensued in this regard. Attorney Health agreed that Mr. Scent is correct that in all the old tracts, they excluded the roads and ditches`"" and did not dedicate them, and, consequently, many owners in most of the areas under discussion tonight would come up slightly short of a gross 5 acres. He felt this could be covered in the zoning Code by a Special Exception which would save a lot of time and trouble for everyone. 4