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i Indian River County Board of Commissioners Walter H. Forman, MD 1801 27th St 2440 23RD ST SE ® Vero Beach, FL 32960. Vero Beach, FL 32963. BY HAND October 1, 2015. i Daily Rental Ordinances I Dear Sirs: I person ally attended your Board meeting on September 22, 2015 and waited in the audience for an opportunity to address you on the Daily Rental Ordinances you were debating. Unfortunately, I had an office full of patients to attend to and could not wait any longer. For the same reason I am unable to addressiyou in person at your meeting of October 6, 2015. 1 have thus provided this letter to Dr.Thomas Gillman"to read into the record at the meeting. I have lived at the above address, a 0.7 acre property in unincorporated Indian River County since 1978. During this period of 37 years my family and our neighbors to the south have enjoyed a quiet and peaceful oceanfront lifestyle. Even during the destructive and stressful Hurricane periods our neighborhood through the hard work,care,consideration and help of our neighbors of 17 and 22 years respectively were able to restore our quiet and peaceful quality of life very quickly. This quiet and peaceful existence that endured for 34 years and numerous Hurricanes changed for the worse when in 2012, you allowed commercial daily rental businesses to operate at our residence front doors. Specifically, a 0.3 acre property boarding groups of over 16 people of unknown origin arriving in 10,12 and even 18 cars and trucks for short periods of time has removed the pristine peace and tranquility ® of the adjoining 3.2 acre properties. In other words a rental business occupying 9%of the property area has negatively impacted the quality of life and value of 91%of the adjoining properties over the last three years. Words written on a piece of paper cannot convey noise,garbage stench,trespassing, commercial parking lots, parties, reunions and general social abuse from these types of unregulated businesses. You have to personally experience the affront of these businesses to properly understand and feel the distress of your constit lents by having one of these businesses operating on the front door step of your residences. With this in mind, the message I would like delivered to you, is the Event Ordinance you recently passed will amount to nothing without the steel of the Proposed Parking Ordinance backing it up. 10 cars parked on the lawn of a 0.3 acre property with 18 strangers claiming to be on "vacation and enjoying a football barbecue"has the same disruptive effect as a "Wedding or Family Reunion". You control the car influx, you control the disruptive stranger influx and their parties irrespective of how they describe the event In conclusion, please follow the sound advice of your own Planning and Zoning Commission who rejected both Part 4 of the Proposed Ordinance and the suggestion the Business Parking restriction should be set aside when the owner sleeps at the house for a week in each year.Your Planning and Zoning Commission saw through this ploy of undermining the annual State Business Dwelling license and so should you. i Should you follow the advice of your own Planning and Zoning Commission by implementing their version of the harking Ordinance and enforcing the Event Ordinance, you will not have cured the problems of 2012 but will certainly have provided some small measure of relief. ® Yours Sincerely, Walter H. Forman, MD. t31 - G -I