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a minimum of five acres for that district and that would be reduced to two and a half if the district is adjacent to a node. Essentially he felt we would have the same potential impact with limiting it to an office use as for general commercial. Commissioner Wheeler asked about the RS -6 area across the street and asked how that happened. Director Keating could not explain it but stated Staff will be going, through with a set of comprehensive administrative rezonings once the comprehensive plan is found in compliance and that is one of the first items to be addressed. The Chairman opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard in this matter. Attorney Michael O'Haire, representing Trevor Smith, appeared with some graphics to share with the members of the Board. He described the area. He paraphrased policy 13.3, if there is oversight or mistake the plans needs to be changed and he suggested to the Board that there was oversight and mistakes by putting residential zoning where the R & H Crane Service Equipment yard is. He gave a history of the area, and the Trevor Smith parcel and the Smith residence, stressing the heavy commercial development to the east. He commented that if the Board tells Mr. Trevor Smith the property he acquired from his father can be used only for residential purposes, in truth you have told him he cannot use it for anything. Mr. O'Haire reported he had talked to every one of the owners of property on Old Dixie to the south up to Eighth Street, all of which are single-family homes, and all have experienced the same problem that Mr. Smith experienced. Carl Brubacker, 835 10th Avenue, felt this had been fully discussed before the P & Z board, who made an obvious decision not to allow it for a very simple reason. This is not Old Dixie Highway. We are talking about residences on Tenth Avenue designed to stay residential, and if the Board allows this person to change this on 10th Avenue, which his lot does touch on, then you can have commercial on the rest of 10th. He stated he did not like Mr. Smith having a bad time, but there were other homeowners on 10th Avenue who had to be considered. He recalled that, at the P & Z Board meeting, Staff clearly indicated Mr. Smith could build a residence facing 10th Avenue. He pointed out there were eight people in the audience who own houses on 10th Avenue who oppose this change. Trevor Smith, owner of the subject property, stated that his address is not 10th Avenue, it is an Old Dixie address. Furthermore, 9th Street, which goes from east to west, and is the only access into that commercial plaza on the north, goes right 43 MAY 21 19 1