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p �y e <br />DE C `988 BOOK 6 5 .E E 277 <br />7 <br />would create more traffic, allow more intermixing, and also bring <br />the additional traffic at the worst times of day. <br />Attorney Brandenburg next addressed the fairness issue <br />relating to how the Commission has treated all other properties <br />in the area, i.e., the WalMart property which was approved to its <br />maximum; Perkins that was approved to its maximum; the Schlitt <br />property which has exactly the same characteristics and was <br />approved for 7,800 sq. ft. of CG; and at the same P&Z meeting, <br />that Commission spent four minutes to approve 150,000 sq. ft. of <br />commercial one mile on down the road without any argument at all. <br />He, therefore, did not teel that traffic is an issue but that it <br />is being used as an excuse. He further found it interesting that <br />the residents most affected by this particular piece of property <br />have not even appealed it; the appeal is not by the Garden's <br />Association but by the Vista Civic Association whom Mr. Barkett <br />represents. Attorney Brandenburg contended that when you look at <br />the Land Use pattern in the area, if anything, this area is <br />becoming more commercialized rather than going to offices. If <br />they had to put in a three-story office building here, obviously, <br />they would try to put in an attractive building, but who would <br />rent it. <br />Attorney Brandenburg believed the Board will hear many un- <br />related factors today, such as the brochures people saw when they <br />bought their property, which brochures talked about preservation <br />of certain areas. He claimed the fact is that every single <br />brochure showed this area either as commercial or not included. <br />He contended that the residents over the years have confused the <br />language saying that approximately.1/3 of the property is to be <br />preserved as nature as intending it to be this property, but it <br />was not and, in fact, that property is still there today and <br />still preserved - the 55 acres directly east of the Gardens' <br />development and that property runs down to the river. <br />Chairman Scurlock asked if that is environmentally <br />sensitive land, and Mr. Brandenburg confirmed that it is and <br />26 <br />