08-07-1973 Regular MeetingPLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION
A meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission was held
in the Council Chambers on Tuesday, August 7, 1973. The
meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by Chairman Czech
with the following members present: Mrs. Ruth Alice Ray
and Messrs. R. E. Oswalt, R. Williams, and Nick Jones.
City Manager Hopkins was present. Also present were Mrs.
R. Tanney and Messrs. A. Earls, G. Lyon, Wm. Boyd, and
Dr. J. Peacock.
The Invocation was given by Mrs. Ray.
The minutes of the meeting held on June 5, 1973, were
approved as written.
Chairman Czech announced the next order of business to be
a Public Hearing as follows:
To consider a request for the rezoning of Lots 1 thru 13
in Block 7, City Blocks from the present C-1 Zoning to
C-2 Zoning. Mr. Earls stated that he wished the lots owned
by him to be rezoned to establish a business applicable
to C-2 Zoning. Objections to the rezoning were voiced by
Mrs. R. Tanney, who appeared before the Commission, and in
letters submitted to the Commission, and read by Chairman
Czech, from Mr. and Mrs. H. Forrest Kimball, and Mrs. Jill
Slark. Following discussion by the Commission, motion was
made by Mrs. Ray, seconded by Mr. Oswalt, that a recommenda-
tion be made to the City Council that the request for the
rezoning of Lots 1 thru 13 in Block 7, City Blocks, from its
present C-1 Zoning to C-2 Zoning be denied. Upon roll call
vote on passage of the motion the result was: Ayes: Ray,
Oswalt and Czech. Total Ayes: 3• Nayes: Williams and Jones.
Total Nayes: 2. The motion carried.
The following discussion, at the request of the City Council
of the feasibility of allowing nursery schools or kindergartens
in R-1 Urban Residential District, motion was made by Mrs. Ray,
seconded by Mr. Oswalt, that a recommendation be made
to the City Council that no change be made to the Zoning
Ordinance to allow for schools (nursery or kindergartens) in
an R-1 zone other than as already provided for in the present
zoning ordinance. Upon roll call vote on passage of the motion
the result was: Ayes: Ray, Oswalt, Williams and Czech. Total
Ayes: 4. Nayes: Jones. Total Nayes: One. The motion carried.
City Manager Hopkins called the Commission's attention to an
8 session course on Planning and Zoning to be held at
Lake Sumter Junior College, and to be conducted by Mr. J. Flynn,
Lake County Planning Director, beginning Wednesday, October 3.
City Manager Hopkins distributed amended copies of the proposed
landscaping ordinance for the Commission's review, which will
be brought up at a future meeting. The meeting was adjourned
by Chairman Czech.
HENRY CZECH
MILD RED DOLLAR,SECRETARY