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to send the community notice of any meetings and discussion re their area. Mrs.Georgia Allen noted that this does not affect her personally, but she is in real estate and she does live in Roseland and has for many years just because of the type of place it is. She personally doesn't want to live in a mobile home, but her daughter lives next door to her in one, and many other people live in them and love it; so why can't staff leave the area alone. Roseland has a special character of its own, and they don't want it changed. Fred Meidel informed the Board that he bought 4 lots in this area because it was mixed zoning and if he didn't want to build a house, he could put mobile homes on it, but now he can't. Carolyn Eggert, Chairman of the Planning & Zoning Commis- sion, pointed out that the Commission has to look -at these areas that have some real problems, and these situations are very frustrating. Administrator Wright emphasized that what is brought to the Board is what makes good zoning from the staff perspective; staff will not bring just what is politically expedient. Commissioner Wodtke did not believe he would want to consider ever developing a new area that would mix single family and mobile homes, but in this particular case where the people'in the mobile homes own the land, it is actually a homestead, and he would not have any problem with allowing them to continue to exist together. Administrator Wright did not see how staff can differentiate based on whether the mobile home is owner occupied. He noted that in many cases, the people own more than one lot. Director Keating pointed out that none of the alternatives staff has suggested would require anyone to change what they have got; staff was just asking for some input before they expended both time and money to advertise creating an ordinance. He further noted that we used to have permits to allow temporary 71 BOOK 64 Ft±GE 5,?8 MAY 21 �9 �