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r NOV 17 1982 <br />felt there is plenty of room out there for both the airport <br />and this community. <br />Ralph MacCormack, Realtor, resident of Village Green, <br />and former owner of the subject property for 28 years, felt <br />it is time for the property to be used for something. He <br />brought up the point that land used for mobile home parks <br />can be changed to another usage more easily than most any <br />other.type development, and, therefore, if it were desired <br />to use it for industrial 20 to 30 years in the future, there <br />would be very little difficulty in removing the mobile homes <br />and using it for other purposes. Mr. MacCormack spoke in <br />favor of mobile home development, noting that he and his <br />neighbors are very happy in Village Green Mobile Home <br />Community. <br />John Johnson, 676 Royal Palm Place, commented that if <br />he were a flyer of an ultra light, he would rather fly over <br />mobile homes than dodge industrial smokestacks, and he <br />wished to know if we can't say how the land can be used in a <br />node, how we can say that we can't have a mobile home park <br />in the adjacent area. <br />- 01wen Lavatelli, Realtor, representing InterAmerican— - <br />Land Associates, owner of 155 lots east of the subject <br />property, stated that her client felt the mobile homes would <br />be greatly preferable to industrial use of that land. <br />Vic Trino of 2117 Dunbarton Way, Lakeland, President of <br />Florida Manufactured Housing Association, stressed that less <br />than 100 of the population has income to qualify to purchase <br />a new home and that is why manufactured homes now account <br />for 39% of all homes sold in this country, and this is <br />projected to exceed 50a by 1990. <br />Mr. Trino then refuted the many myths about <br />manufactured homes, stating that they are not meant for <br />temporary housing and do not have transient population; they <br />have 300 less instance of fires than site constructed <br />63 <br />