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JUN 22199.3 <br />BOOK 89 PACE 8,92 -7 <br />Chairman Bird emphasized that he is not recommending a <br />rezoning to 3 units per acre across the board. He was pointing out <br />that it is unf air if property on one side of a road is zoned 3 <br />units per acre while directly across the road it is I unit per 5 <br />acres or 1 unit per acre, and they are being assessed the same. <br />Dr. Skip Barkett, 5850 12th Street, appreciated being excluded <br />from this proposed land use designation change and encouraged the <br />Board not to proceed with the transmittal. He felt there were <br />inconsistencies in staff's justifications for proposing these <br />changes. He gave the example of one paragraph arguing that this <br />change will reduce urban sprawl while in the next paragraph <br />development is being encouraged. He requested the opportunity for <br />the public to debate the reasons f or the proposed changes. He <br />accused the staff of circular thinking. He posed the questions: <br />If we can establish the urban service area without changing the <br />comprehensive land use designation, why change it? If the answer <br />is to create more utility customers to finance the urban service <br />area, why is the urban service area needed? We are establishing an <br />urban service area, we don't have the customer base to do it, we <br />are changing the land use designation to provide the customers to <br />establish what we have already established that we don't need. He <br />f elt that although he and his neighbors have been excluded this <br />time, they want to voice their opinion about an issue that they <br />think is basically wrong. <br />Peter Robinson, 315 Greytwig Road, representing several <br />property owners including himself, presented the following letter <br />from John H. Stockamore: <br />28 <br />M M M <br />