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1) Under the Bureau of Revenue's Florida Retail Sales and Use Tax code classifications, a grocery store is classified 01 under food and beverage group, and tax imposed under that category applies to small stores, big stores, supermarkets, all types of stores. 2) The Community Builder Handbook Series says that a supermarket is the anchor tenant in community centers. 3) There is no specific definition in the County's LDRs for a grocery store or for a supermarket. 4) The 1993 issue of Dollars and Cents of Shopping Centers says that a neighborhood center provides for the sale of daily living needs, convenience goods, such as food, drugs, hardware, and personal service. A supermarket is the principal tenant of this type of center. 5) The publication Urban Planning and Design Criteria says that the leading tenants of the neighborhood center are supermarkets and drug stores. It also says the site area is four to eight acres and that the gross floor area is 30,000 to 75,000 square feet. 6) Grocery store is a category term that is used throughout IRC's Zoning Code. There is no distinction in the CL district. No square footage limitation can be found anywhere in the Code that defines a supermarket or a grocery store. Attorney Evans next introduced Tom Vincent, vice president of Halvorsen Development who made the following points: 1) There is no specific planning data that says that size distinguishes or establishes the difference between a grocery store and a supermarket. 2) Controls within the zoning regulations and LDRs control, monitor, and create compatibility for any particular use, permitted use, in a given zoning district. 3 ) The test for the CL district speaking to meeting the needs of the area residents is not subjective. There is no criteria in the Code that clearly establishes and defines how you meet the needs of the area residents. 4) There is nothing in the Code saying that store hours have any relationship to the classification of a particular use. 5) 18 -wheeler trucks service smaller units just as often as they do the larger units. In fact, a lot of combination trips are saved by the larger delivery trucks. 6) Most stores built today are state of the art units and do not look like the photographs presented by the appellant. 7) There is a significant separation between the back of the proposed commercial use and the front yards of a few of the private residences. 36 r July 12, 1994 I