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BOOK 103 PAGE 342 <br />Community Development Director Robert Keating reviewed the Comp Plan <br />amendment process, advising that this is the first public hearing before the Board of County <br />Commissioners on this land use amendment request. If the Board approves the transmittal <br />of this application to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in Tallahassee for their <br />60 -day review, a second and final public hearing will be scheduled to consider any <br />comments made by the DCA and whether to adopt an ordinance amending the Comp Plan <br />by redesignating the land use. If the Board denies the transmittal of an application to the <br />DCA, the application process will come to an end. <br />Director Keating continued that there are 2 amendment requests by individuals and <br />1 County -initiated. Should the Board agree to transmit these amendments to the DCA for <br />review, the DCA will review and file a recommendations and comments report. <br />Subsequently all 3 amendments would be considered at a public hearing sometime in March <br />or April, 1998. <br />Director Keating then reviewed the Hammond amendment request and stated that <br />staff has worked with the applicants for several months regarding this illegal packing house. <br />The problem is that the subject property is designated M-1 and currently zoned RS -6. The <br />County's Comp Plan does not allow M-1 to be zoned for agricultural use. There are 2 <br />possible remedies; either amend the text of the Comp Plan which would allow rezoning to <br />A-1 or amend the land use designation from M-1 to C/I. The Planning & Zoning <br />Commission has recommended, by a 3-1 vote, a land use map amendment and staff concurs <br />with that recommendation. The Gifford Node is not typical in that the property is within <br />the airport noise zone and the City of Vero Beach Airport property is designated CV <br />(conservation) and zoned light industrial. <br />The Chairman opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard in <br />this matter. <br />Attorney Bruce Barkett, as applicant and as attorney, emphasized that this particular <br />property will never be developed as residential property due to its location within the airport <br />noise impact zone. <br />Attorney Barkett felt that when the node was originally created, everything south of <br />41' Street was designated non-residential which makes this part of a continuing pattern of <br />development. <br />NOVEMBER 4, 1997 46 <br />