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are disappearing. He felt it would be advisable for the Board to <br />put this whole area on hold for a year or more while they do a <br />more thorough study of possibly acquiring the property. <br />Thomas Barnes, 806 43rd Avenue, informed the Board that he <br />owns a 65 acre citrus grove across the street on the south side <br />of South Winter Beach Road and his sister owns approximately 100 <br />acres of industrial property east of him. He stressed that they <br />try to be good neighbors, but he does have some opinions on this <br />and felt we have some debatable issues on the environment and the <br />ways to protect it. Mr. Barnes believed the character of the <br />area to the west is established beyond question, but the <br />character of the 145 acres in question is not really established <br />and that is what the Board is doing now. He felt this all had <br />been settled before when the area to the west of Lateral G and up <br />on North Winter Beach Road was downzoned because he believed that <br />pretty much addressed the people who were there. Mr. Barnes did <br />not feel the Board is changing anything a great deal by leaving <br />this at RS -6 and stated that it bothers him when property owners <br />and staff agree on a piece of property on which people have been <br />paying taxes for a number of years, and then you get people <br />coming from farther away raising a lot of nebulous issues and <br />trying to change other people's property. <br />Anders Nyquist advised that he owns 15 acres on North Winter <br />Beach Road. It is one of the few areas still zoned RS -6, and <br />Mr. Nyquist believed the area does have a need for this type <br />zoning. He also felt the issue had been resolved when they <br />rezoned the land west of the canal, and he asked that the Board <br />follow staff's and the Planning & Zoning Commission's decision <br />and keep the property zoned as it is. <br />Tom DeBerry informed the Board that the subject property <br />adjoins the property on which he is building. He has talked to <br />people in the Zoning Department about the size of the lots and <br />the difference in density designations. It appears the present <br />zoning RS -6 would allow a range of lot sizes from 7,000 to 10,000 <br />MAY 5 1987 <br />25 <br />BOOK b 8 CrWL 235 <br />