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BOOK &0 f',".lig Commissioner Scurlock concluded that would move commercial zoning 17.12 feet closer to the residential subdivision and he opposed it. County Attorney Charles Vitunac explained the net result would be reconfiguration of the same amount of acreage. Chairman Eggert asked, and Attorney Collins clarified that the item for consideration is whether to enter into the proposed agreement to purchase the right-of-way which would be contingent on the rezoning being approved. Commissioner Scurlock considered it contract zoning, but Attorney Collins advised it is not contract zoning because an agreement to buy right-of-way has nothing to do with whether the rezoning will be approved because that is a land use decision. Chairman Eggert recognized a resident who wished to address the Board. Barbara Bonnah, 5845 23rd Street, resident of Rivera Estates Subdivision, spoke in opposition to the proposed rezoning. She stated her backyard faces the RM -6 property which serves as a 300 - foot buffer between the residential and commercial zones. Mrs. Bonnah recounted raising objections at a Board meeting in September of 1987 when the Board approved rezoning of 4.4 acres from RM -6 to commercial to align the entrance of the subject parcel on Kings Highway with the entrance to Ryanwood Shopping Center. At that time Mrs. Bonnah told the Board that the residents were afraid the developer would take that 4.4 acres and keep coming back for more until the commercial parcel would extend right up to their backyards. If the 17.12 -foot strip is rezoned to commercial and the parcel is resold, she would expect the next developer to use the argument that the remaining 10 acres of RM -6 is too small and therefore not suited for multi -family residential. Mrs. Bonnah described it as whittling away at the residential zoning for supposedly good reasons but, in the meantime, the actual reason is to change RM -6 acreage, which is worth $70,000 per acre, to commercial acreage, which is worth $263,000 per acre. Mrs. Bonnah advised that she had met recently with a representative of the developer and had suggested to him that they could eliminate one building from the site plan in order to provide the required parking spaces. His response was that it would decrease their profit. She also suggested the shopping center could be built on the southwest corner of SR 60 and Kings Highway where they would not encroach on a residential area. Mrs. Bonnah was also concerned about having a supermarket there which will generate noise from refrigerated trucks at all hours of the day and night and - eventually will require a traffic signal for that access. road. 56