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J2 ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION
Regular.Meeting - January 18, 1968
8:00 P.M. - City Commission Room
0 City Hall, Sanford, Florida
Present: Clifford W. McKibbin, Jr., Chairman
< John Daniels, Jr.
W Donald Bishop, Jr.
CL Jefferson R. Davis
°b Arthur H. Harris
Robert E. Karns
Phillip H. Logan
O John Y. Mercer
M Building Official Linvel Risner
Building Inspector Kermit Wallstedt
Absent: Dr. C. F. Brooke Smith
City Manager W. E. Knowles
The Chairman called the meeting to order.
The first item of business was the holding of a Public
Hearing to consider the rezoning of Lots 1 through 9, Block 3,
Palm Terrace from that of R -1, One Family Dwelling District
to that of C -1, Neighborhood Commercial, as advertised in the
Sanford Herald on January 16, 1968. Application for the
rezoning having been submitted by Seminole County Chairman John
Alexander. Above described property being county - owned.
t The Chairman announced that property owners within 300
feet of the property proposed for rezoning had been notified
individually by mail.
Appearing ink behalf of the request was Robert S. Brown,
County Zoning Director and J.C. Lavender, County Road Superin-
tendent, stating that the use of the property would be for the
operation of a Seminole County Vehicle Safety Inspection Station.
W This would be on that property more particularly described as
U the southeast corner of 25th Street and Grandview Avenue.
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They stated that it is mandd.tory that the County or State
be responsible for the automobile inspection service. The
CC Seminole County Officials then outlined the County Commission's
O proposal for use of the property as follows:
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1. The building to be erected will be either metal or
concrete in size of 50 feet wide x 60 feet long with the
nine lots consisting of an area of 430 feet long x 123 feet
wide running on Grandview south from 25th Street.
The building will set approximately on Lots 4, 5 and 6.
This particular type of operation needs an area of no less
than 300 x 150 feet. Building will set back approxi-
mately 37 feet from the property line on Grandview Avenue
with approximately 185 feet on each side of the building
.. north and south.
2. Hours of operation would be from 8 AM to 5 PM, 5 days
a week with a possibility of operating one night a week
until 11 PM, with operation to be year - round. Autos
will not be in the building more than 8 minutes with'a
plan to inspect a car every 4 minutes. They would
schedule inspections according to the'last two numbers
of the vehicle tag thereby placing the inspection in
specific month.
3. Plans are to pave Grandview Avenue south from 25th
Street for approximately 300 feet. Autos will enter
from 25th Street onto Grandview Avenue and then into
the building and then exit on Grandview and then back
towards 25th Street. Propose to have a paved circle
drive of 50 feet. There will be sufficient area on
the property to hold excess cars so that there will
not be a pile up and /or traffic jam on 25th Street,
when entering from 25th Street. Plans call for an
enclosure of the ditch at the street entrance on
Grandview (at 25.th) with pipe being laid for a short
distance south.
Mr. Brown and Mr. Lavender also pointed out that there will
no repairs made on the premises. if repairs are needed after
said inspection,the auto owner will have the work done at his
own descretion; a shop of his own choosing.
It was noted that facing on 25th Street, in a commercial
zoning, is the County's voting booth and directly behind it
is the Florida Power and Light Company distribution plant;
and the southwest corner of 25th and Grandview is now zoned
C -1 commercial. The land use map indicated no more than two
residences in the immediate area.
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No one appeared in favor of or against the rezoning
other than the two county officials. G. A. Maffett,
2441 Lilly Court, north of 25th Street, appeared but only
for the purpose of information. He did not speak in favor
of or against the rezoning.
After discussion, Mr. Harris moved that the rezoning
of Lots 1 through 9, Block 3, Palm Terrace, from R -1, residential
to C -1, commercial, be recommended to the City Commission for
their further consideration and final action to rezone same.
Seconded by Mr. Bishop and carried unanimously.
Under a discussion of the present policy of advertising
public hearings by said Board relative to the high cost, Mr.
Mercer moved that the legal advertising be continued but not
as a display ad but in the appropriate legal ad section of
the local paper and to continue to collect the established
$20.00 fee; in addition to continue to notify property owners
within 300 feet of property under rezoning consideration by
an individual notice through the mail. Seconded by Mr. Karns
and carried.
Nick Sileo, Florida State University's Urban Research
Center, Urban and Regional Planning Department, appeared before
the Board relative to the Citizens Urban Leadership Workshop
to be held in Sanford on February 9th and 10th. He announced
those local people contacted and those responding as to attendance.
The Board then recommended that the following persons be con-
tacted regarding attendance of the Workshop: Mr. McClousky,
Carpenter's Union; Harold Johnson; Tom Freeman; Wallace Hall;
Gene Estridge; John Alexander; two senior students from Seminole
High and Crooms, preferably the President of the Student Body
or Senior Class; Kay Shoemaker, Industrial Board, Walter Gielow,
Sanford Herald newspaper; Al Doudney, Amos Jones, Ernest
Southward, Edward Blackshere, and Andrew Bracken.
There being no further bus' Ss, the meeting adjourned.
Chairman