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APP <br />7 1987 <br />BOOK <br />F <br />FVJE821 <br />Attorney Robin Lloyd came <br />before the Board on <br />behalf <br />of the <br />Ames family who own property adjacent to and across the street <br />from the Ralmar property. He noted this is the zoning they asked <br />for originally and have been asking for, and he believed the <br />residents of the area agree. Mr. Lloyd requested the Board <br />approve rezoning to RS -2. <br />Elmer Barker, Rosewood Road, noted that the residents of the <br />area have been through this many times before, and he agreed RS -2 <br />would be best for all concerned because of the estatetype <br />development and that anything above RS -2 would take away from <br />what is there. <br />Attorney John Sutherland, resident of 44th Avenue, agreed <br />with what has been said by the Rosewood residents and advised <br />that he was appearing in behalf of his neighbors on 44th Avenue <br />and those who live on the east side of 44th Avenue, north of 16th <br />St., which area staff now is proposing should be deleted from the <br />proposed RS -2 rezoning. Attorney Sutherland stated that those on <br />44th Avenue feet it should be rezoned RS -2. He noted that the <br />Orths own the south half of the property proposed to be deleted, <br />and they have said they want it zoned RS -2. The north half <br />belongs to a church, and he did not believe it would make any <br />difference to the church whether it was RS -2 or RS -3. He was <br />just saying that the ones who live there and the ones who still <br />own it have asked that it be RS -2 and they would request that the <br />Board not delete their area from the rezoning to RS -2 as proposed <br />by staff. <br />It was determined that no one else wished to be heard, and <br />the Chairman declared the public hearing closed. <br />Commissioner Eggert inquired why staff felt RS -2 would not <br />be appropriate for the area discussed by Attorney Sutherland. <br />Chief Planner Shearer explained that 43rd Avenue is <br />primarily a collector street, and the property to the east of it <br />in the City of Vero Beach is currently designated much higher. <br />It is staff's feeling since Vero Beach is going to have <br />44 <br />