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FEB 245, BOOK 67 F,,� 413 Commissioner Bird asked why the P & Z Commission felt so adamant about including the whole area, and Chairman Scurlock felt it was due to pressure at the Public Hearing. Commissioner Wheeler asked how those areas that staff wants to exempt would be accessed, and Richard Shearer, Chief of Long -Range Planning, advised that it would be through the mixed neighborhood. He believed it would be difficult to develop a subdivision back in there when you have to go through a mixed area to get to it. Commissioner Wheeler wondered if there was some way to separate those neighborhoods as far as entrances are concerned, but Mr. Shearer stressed that staff is not recommending that these areas be made RS -3 today; staff is recommending that the striped areas be deleted because it does not have the mixture to the extent the others have. Public Works Director Jim Davis noted that there are mostly unimproved streets in this area, the only paved roads being Lane, Gibson and Josie Streets. Chairman Scurlock opened the Public Hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard. Attorney Michael O'Haire, representing a number of property owners within the ROSE -4 area, did not feel that this proposed rezoning is very controversial. He felt we have to be realistic because there is industrial on 3 sides of this area. On the north is the garbage dumpm and the airport is on the south. In order to get to the areas that staff has proposed to be excluded, you have to go through what everyone concedes should be ROSE -4, regardless of how ROSE -4 is defined in the next Public Hearing this morning. Attorney O'Haire recommended that the Board rezone the whole thing with the exception of Mr. Sembler's property, if he feels he can Five with Agriculture. Fred Mensing, 7580 129th Street, presented the following request from Mr. Sembler: 38