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which was approved by the commission and council only in the last several weeks, as well as the contiguous neighborhood which we think should not be encumbered by the many possible incompatible uses available in Commercial, we cannot support this request. Public hearing declared open. George Fisher, owner of the subject property spoke in favor of the petition stating when the Dollar Tree built that shopping center they contacted him because they were not interested at the time in the nearly 7 acres behind it. Fisher states he bought the property because he was younger then and had bigger aspirations at that point in time. The current owners of the Dollar Tree property are interested in rejoining that property. Fisher states he has a 30 -foot ingress/egress across their parking lot that says nothing about him needing to fix any damage or anything. Fisher states that Dollar Tree has expressed no plans for the property other than to shut the easement down and whenever they decide to sell the property it would be sold as one piece of property at that time. Fisher states he has a contract to sell that would be null and void if the zoning change does not go through. Roger Shipp resides at 3745 Leigh Dr. spoke in opposition of the petition due to the run off of water and trash from the easement that either this property owner or the City owns that floods him out every time it rains. He has had damage to his property foundation. Shipp further states before anything is developed at this property that backs up to his, the easement needs to be addressed. His neighbor's driveway is ruined because of the flood waters. Shipp asked what are the plans to get rid of the water, brush, trees, trash etc. Chairman Flowers states the commission has no authority at this time to address the development and drainage issues. This agenda item is regarding the zoning of this property. James O'Bryan commented that development may improve some of these issues versus an undeveloped property. Public hearing was declared closed. Motion was made by James O'Bryan, seconded by Chad Lindsey to deny the zoning change. Motion carried 5-1 with Keith Flowers in opposition.