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Minutes of Regular Meeting, Thursday
December 2, 1965 - 8:00 P.M.
City Commission Room, City Hall
Present: Members: Clifford W. McRibbin, Jr.- Chairman
Donald Bishop, Jr.
William Bush
Arthur Harris
Robert E. Karns
City Manager W. E. Knowles
Absent: Members: S. ,Joe Davis
A. W. Lee, Jr.
Dr. Brooke Smith
Mason H. Wharton
Building Official Lin Risner
The Chairman called the meetint to order.
The minutes of October 21, 1465, were read regarding the
action of the public hearing held on that date on a rezoning
request from that of R -1, residential to that of C -1, neighbor-
hood commercial of the property situated on the southwest corner
of West 25th Street and Poinsetta Avenue; legal being Lots 16
and 17, Block 3, Palm Terrace, in an estate of Walter Fallen,
deceased and with Attorney C. Vernon Mize representing the
property.
The Chairman then announced that the Board was called into
session on the request of the City Commission in order to review
their prior recommendation of denial on the rezoning to commercial
whereby at their public hearing, the City Commission had received
a letter from the County Commission, the County being an abutting
property stating that they had no objection to the re-
zoning of the property in question.
A lengthy discussion followed with Mr. Bush making the
following observation.
The County Commission refuses to have any concern with
the City's internal affairs as far as it concerns zoning. That
is the sole intent of this letter and no more. When they say
they have no objection, they certainly by no stretch of the
imagination mean that they are for it. All they mean is
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that they, - as a matter of policy that they have a keep hands
off attitude. There is danger that the City Commission and
the applicants may have attached undue weight to this letter.
The modern planners the seven- county area and the
Orange- Seminole urban area and the local City of Sanford and
the County of Seminole very unanimously agree that it is a
fallacy to say that a road improvement changes the land use
along the side of that road because a read improvement is
made to move traffic. It does not automatically follow that,
that road should also be made commercial, or strip zoning as
they call it. This has been drilled into our County Board
here for at least 7, 8 or 9 years. The City Zoning Board
was over -ruled on West First Street and on French Avenue,
which is the most recent tragedy. I will never be convinced
personally that the hamburger stand adds any value to the
entrance of the Dreamwold Section, one of the latest and
greatest tragedies to occur to the City of Sanford. I believe
that these people living in Dreamwold, 25th Street, and
Mellonville have the right to preservation of some of the
values that they have invested.
Because 25th Street is widened, it does not change the
character of the traffic any. The traffic on it. is going
the same place that it went before. It is ,just going there
more safely. Because the County does not object to a piece
of property being changed to make it contiguous to another
piece of the same zoning classification doesn't mean a thing
because, if our Board changes this piece, then the next real
estate agent will come up tomorrow to change the next piece
because it is contiguous and the first thing you know every-
thing will be contiguous strip zoning until it goes through
all the way to Mellonville Avenue and turns left and moves
its way all the way to the lakefront.
I don't think it has ever been the policy of this
Board to change zoning for investment perspective /speculative
reasons. We have operated this Board on the basis of what
is in the best interest for the citizens of the City of Sanford.
With all due respect to the Commissioners, I think it was
courteous of them to return the matter to us in view of the
Countyls letter.
However, I make a motion that the application in this
matter again be denied on the basis that I cannot see that
this significantly changes the prior study.
Thereupon, the members concurred wholeheartedly on the
observation and motion to again deny the request with Mr. Bishop
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seconding the motion . Motion to deny being carried unanimously.
A further discussion was then centered around the fact
that the City's Zoning Ordinance and land use map was adopted
in 196.1, and a competent professional planning engineer should
be employed, even if only on a prrt -time basis, to bring the
data and the land use map up -to -date. This too could possibly
eliminate and bear out some Qf the recent controversial re-
zoning problems.
It was moved by Mr. Harris, seconded by Mr. Bush and
carried that a recommendation.be submitted to the City Commission,
as outlined above and that monies be made available for such
an evaluation and to further implement the plan.
Next under consideration was a request for a feasibility
study for setting a public hearing to rezoning the North 50.2'
of Lot 10, Block 7, Tier 6, from R -3 multiple family to commercial.
Location being the east side of Elm Avenue between 5th and 6th
Streets; a present non- conforming grocery known as the West
Side Grocery, owned and operated by Joseph C. and Pauline Owens.
A report showed that the Owens had an offer of sale to
. Clay Williams, and if rezoning could be accomplished he
would operate a billiard, pool room, hall in the rear of the
structure with a concession in the front with the selling of
soft drinks and sandwiches.
After a lengthy discussion, Mr. Harris moved to deny the
request to set a Public Hearing on the basis that, it would
constitute "spot zoning ", the neighborhood was predominately
residential, an elementary school located with a half of a
block from the site whereby a pool room could be a detriment
if beer were to be sold, and the fact it would be a noise
factor in a residential neighborhood with regards to its
keeping late hours. Motion seconded by Mr. Karns
to deny. Motion was carried unanimously.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
Chairman
Secretary