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Planning and Zoning Meeting June 3, 2003 Page 11 rough estimate on the old Rogers Wade building is over a million dollars. Chairman Reeves Hayter stated that it would be up to the owner of,the properties to pay for whatever improvements are made. Mr. Bone stated that the building would already be gone if he had not put the metal roof on it. Some of the structure is rotten from the leakage. Freddie Swaim, 375 Laurel Lane, Paris, stated that his plea is for the Commission to do what is right. This is the only country that you can vote without worry about being killed or elections being turned over, the right to own guns, right to own property and the right to go anywhere in the United States without asking anybody or telling anybody. Mr. Swaim has been in his building since 1932 and has no idea of anyway that he would want to change it but when it comes time to fix the roof he will fix it the way it has to be fixed. Mr. Swaim stated the law is not even in effect and people have already been told that they cannot even live on their own land-where are property rights. Jim Wright, 805 20th SE, who owns property at Bonham Street and Grand Avenue stated that in 1916 there was not somebody saying that you cannot put a trailer house on a lot where kids could be raised and sent to school to help pay taxes. Need relief on personal property taxes and maybe what the Historic Commission wants done can be done to the old buildings. There was no further opposition, the public hearing was declared closed. 13. Consideration of and action on the petition of the Historic Preservation Commission for a change in zoning from Central Area (CA) to a Historical Overlay District (HD), being the Downtown Area. Motion was made to approve the request to a Historical Overlay