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john h. dean architect & associates, p.a., a.i.a. June 9, 1997 This original application for this Administrative Use request would have been better handled if we had applied for a Administrative Use rather than a Permitted Use. As it is now, both the PSAC and the Planning and Zoning Commission voted not to recommend the Board of County Commission to support the Permitted Use request. What is before you now is not the same request, but a revised request, which modifies the Permitted Use request to a Administrative Use request. There is a big difference between a Permitted Use request and a Administrative Use request. It is our belief that the Administrative Use request is a proper and fitting Use request for the four of the five parcels of PRO land in our County and that, should any other PRO designation be made in the future by Indian River County on urban principal arterial roads, this Administrative Use would be compatible with the intended use of the PRO zone. The intended purpose of the PRO zone is by County Code. (a) PRO: Professional office district. The PRO, professional office district, is designed to encourage the development of vacant land and the redevelopment of blighted or declining residential areas along major thoroughfares in selected areas of the county. The selected areas will be deemed as no longer appropriate for strictly single-family use but which are not considered appropriate for a broad range or commercial uses, as permitted in a commercial zoning district. The PRO district may serve as a buffer between commercial and residential uses or be established in areas in transition from single-family to more intensive land uses. The PRO district shall be limited in size so as not to create or significantly extend strip commercial development. It is our belief that if the size and scale of a bank or credit institution is administratively limited, as we have listed in our amended Administrative Use request, the requested use is entirely compatible with the presently allowable PRO uses which include: Security and credit institutions (banks do this) Insurance agents, brokers, and service (banks sell insurance and broker securities) Real estate Holding and other investment offices (banks do investments) Legal services Bed and breakfast Advertising Credit reporting and collection (banks do credit collecting) Employment agencies Computer and data processing General and professional offices (banks are offices) Health and medical services offices and clinics Places of worship Cultural and civic facilities Emergency services Libraries Post offices Administrative approved uses of child and adult care Government and administrative buildings Limited public or private utilities 'Unless the Lord build the house they labor in vain that build it.' Psalm. 127 2223 10th Avenue, Vero Beach, Florida 32960 (561) 567-4907 / Fax: 569-3939 We believe that banks are offices and are not retail in nature. The key here is that our Administrative Use request will limit the size of building and minimum land use area for the facility. The Administrative Use request is very definitive and, not only limits the size of the facility, but requires a high land use area for the use. The Administrative Use request requirements define a small neighborhood bank which is compatible with all the PRO uses allowed and is not a large, high intensity use facility, as is permitted in CN, CL, or CG zoned areas. 28 June 10, 1997 M M M