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Jim Whiteman, 2116 54th Avenue, explained that he lives next <br />door to the Free Will Baptist Church and is frequently asked who <br />owns the vacant lots on that street. For years he had believed <br />that the owners were waiting to get the value up and then would <br />build some real nice houses on those lots which have a lot of <br />pine trees and bushes, but then he discovered the reason they are <br />holding that property is to build offices there eventually which <br />he believed would slowly deteriorate the neighborhood. Mr. <br />Whiteman wished to see the neighborhood stay residential. <br />David Nolte, explained that he rents out a house on'55th <br />Avenue which was his residence until two years ago. He did not <br />believe -there was any way to remove the 30 -year provision in the <br />deed restrictions on Dearie Pines Subdivision prior to the 30 <br />years. In addition to that, the document that was filed in favor <br />of removing the restriction had someone else listed as the owner <br />of his property at 2095 55th Avenue. Mr. Nolte pointed out that <br />the PRO District calls for contiguous property and if the -deed <br />restriction for 55th Avenue cannot be lifted, there isn't enough <br />contiguous property to qualify for PRO. Mr. Nolte wished staff <br />would have shown the video type today that was shown to the P 8 Z <br />Commission, which concentrated on the "blight house" and did not <br />show the entire neighborhood, which for the most part is in very <br />good shape. Mr. Nolte read some of the comments from an MAI <br />appraisal by Armfield-Wagner that he had done on his former <br />residence at 2095 55th Avenue: <br />"The house is located one mile east of the Vero Beach City <br />limits just north of SR -60, which is the major access road <br />and is heavily traveled leading to most support facilities <br />in Vero Beach. The neighborhood consists of nice homes <br />similar in size and type as the subject house and a new <br />shopping center is 2 or 3 blocks to the west. Maintenance <br />levels are average to good. Residential is restricted on <br />55th Avenue." <br />Mr. Nolte stressed that the MAls do not consider this a <br />deteriorating neighborhood; they do consider it to be an average <br />neighborhood of homes valued from $80,000 to $125,000. He <br />29 <br />P is BOOK, Fra F 162 <br />