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this project and also since this process started back in August, 1983, which is just about when our transition and our new ordinance took place. The adjacent piece of property does have access onto 12th Street, and he believed the hardship there was not really self-created. While he fully respected staff's feelings, he felt that we should give some consideration to this matter. Commissioner Bird felt that while the hardship may have been self-created, it was not intentional.. Chairman Scurlock opened the Public Hearing, and asked if anyone wished to be heard in this matter. Attorney Samuel Block, representing the Warren's, gave a brief history of the subject property, explaining that the Warren family has owned and lived on the property fronting on lith Place since 1964. They sold the property once in 1977 or 1978, but had to take the property back because easements cannot be obtained on either side of it. Their family grew up and they went to some professionals and got this configuration in 1983. In 1984 they sold the back part of the property and they were planning to put a culvert up there, build on one site and leave the other lot there. Attorney Block emphasized that they followed normal procedures and got a permit from the Indian River Farms Drainage District before finding out that they couldn't access 12th Street. They did not do this intentionally. They did make it so that they don't have access to 11th Place, but they didn't do it on purpose. They just cannot build on that piece of property. What we are talking about is two lots with one culvert with one turn -around drive, and all his clients are asking is to be allowed to build a culvert and put their driveway on 12th Street so that they can build a home there. Attorney Block entered into the record a statement signed by 15 of the Warrens' neighbors saying that they have no objection to a culvert being constructed on 12th Street. (Statement is on file in the Office of the Clerk to -the Board.) 25