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ZONING AND PLANNING COMMISSION
Special Meeting .. Wednesday
January 11, 1961
City
Members present were: Messers. McKi.bbin, Karns, Talley,
Kirtley, Morgan and Lee. Also present were: City Manager Knowles
and Building Official Yelvington.
7:30 PM
Commission Room
City Hall
Chairman McKibbin called the meeting to order.
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The Building Official presented the following off- street
parking proposals for consideration and action:
1. New request for
of'24th Street
canceled out) .
S and 12. The
parking spaces.
responsibility
Go Kart Rental on the
and French Avenue. {F:
Number of racing cars
plan showed a total of
Track to be operated
of Mr. Owen Fox.
northwest corner
Lrst proposal
to be between
20 off - street
under the
Modred by Mr. Morgan, seconded by Mr. Talley and carried
that the .20 off- street parking spaces be accepted.
2 . Proposed Lit'l Giant on the northwest corner of Celery
Avo. and Mellonvil.le Avenue; west of the present
Phillips 66 Service Station. In addition to the
Lit'l Giant, the plan showed a .launderette, barber and
beauty shop. The plan showed a total of 21 off - street
parking spaces.
After lengthy discussion, regarding the access for
refuse pickups, loading and unloading areas, it was
moored by Mr. Kirtley, seconded by Mr. Karns and carried
.that the plan be rejected, as submitted, for insufficient
parking spaces.
Due to a memorandum from the City Manager's Office to the
Zoning and Planning Board, regarding a request from the City
Commission that reasons be given for their reversed decision
and recent recommendation, without discussion, on the rezoning
of the property on the east side of Sanford Avenue between 25th
Place and 26th Street from that of R -1 to a C -1, the Board then
went into a lengthy discussion.
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Mr Kirtley stated that he was definitely against this
rezoning action that was taken and had no vote in the matter
due to his absence at the meeting. In his opinion, the action
previously taken of repeatedly dening this area for rezoning
should have held and, attempting to rezone a person.'s property
because it cannot be used for residential property for one
reason or another was slowly lowering our "downtown" central
business district with the hodge -podge of commercial areas.
Mr. Rains felt that the Board was possibly "stampeded"
into this recommendation because the County had recently rezoned
to comma ;cial (outside the city limits) on both sides of Sanford
Avenue s6uth , . oF_.26fh "Street. He felt that, the whole area should
be ironed out one way or the other; either commercial all the
way or none at all, but not to rezone at the request of one
property owner. He suggested the possibility of a public hearing
as to just what the people wanted on this highway before any
final recommendation on rezoning. He also mentioned that possibly
one route of action should be to let the City Commission give
a considered opinion to the Board before final recommendation
is given.
It was felt that there is not so much concern as to what
the present property owner is putting on his property for com-
mercial use., but as to what can go into this commercial zone
in the future if the present property owner should sell.
It'was the consensus of opinion that a complete study
of the area should be made. Moved by Mr. Morgan, seconded
by Mr. Kirtley and carried that it be recommended to the City
Commission that, the former rezoning recommendation to commercial
on Block,2, Palm Terrace, and Lot 1 -A, Seminole Heights be
rescinded.
A discussion period followed regarding property in the
Country Club Manor Area; being that bounded on the south by
25th Street; on the west by Old Lake Mary Road; on the east
by Hardy Avenue and on the south by Country Club Road /W. 20th
St. When annexed, it was zoned commercial at the request of Mr. Ness
for the purpose of a future neighborhood shopping center as the
area developed.
Based on a report from Mr. Ness to the .City Manager and
the Building Official, it was moved by Mr. Kirtley, seconded
by Mr. Lee and carried that it be recommended to the City Com-
mission that this property, described above, be rezoned from a
C -1 back to an R -1C to coincide with the abutting property and
make a contiguous R -1C zone.
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This motion -was based on the fact that Mr. Ness was
the one - owner; only a .few responses from various companies
regarding this area; and the fact that the property, as
commercial, could be sold in a hodge -podge manner.
The Building Official presented the Board with a list
of proposed amendments to the No. 2 Tentative Zoning Ordinance
dated December, 1960.
After some discussion on signs, it was recommended that
each member review the amendments and be prepared to discuss
them at the next Board Meeting on Thursday, January 19, 1961.
The minutes of December'l, 1960, were read and approved.
There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.
Chairman
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