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<br />Regular City ('OllI1C¡J I\1cCtlll" <br />May (" 2004 <br />Page <) <br /> <br />weight and should be considered carefully by the City Council in its <br />deliberations. It does not mandate that you cannot depart from the plan to make <br />the decision with regard to approving or not approving a change in zoning. If <br />that were the case, then there would be no purpose in having public hearings and <br />to consider this matter as the City Council is doing other than having those <br />public hearings associated with approving the comprehensive plan. He thought <br />the f~lct that this proposed zoning is consistent with this last proposal and is <br />consistent with the comprehensive plan should be given consideration and <br />weight by the City Council. But, it does not necessarily preclude or foreclose the <br />decision process regarding the City Council one way or the other. <br /> <br />Councilman Guest said that for some of the Council Members that were here <br />about a year ago, he personally had an experience with some property that he <br />owned that was across the street tì-om Planned Development and the Planning <br />and Zoning Commission denied that request for Planned Development even <br />though it was a Planned Development area. Councilman Guest said that four of <br />the Council Members voted to override Planning and Zoning under the premise <br />that you support the City's Master Plan. No ill will harbored, but he asked <br />someone to explain to him the difference. He stated the City either has a Master <br />Plan and they support it, or they do not support it and should redo it. It is either <br />black or white to him. The time to protest is when the Master Plan is presented <br />as he sees it. Councilman Guest said, in his case, it was across the street lì'om his <br />property and home and it was storage, boat storage, warehouse and I ights and <br />removing trees that of leI' cd a buffer between his home and their's and all that <br />went with it. <br /> <br />Councilwoman Neeley said in a partial answer to that, she went back to the curb <br />and gutter things and they even went to the extent of changing ordinances <br />because a lady wanted to build her house and if the Council went by it, it did not <br />make sense and if they went by it. So, they went to a lot of trouble to change the <br />steps that the City goes through and said you did not have to. Then a man came <br />before the Council asking to build houses in a neighborhood where there was no <br />curb and gutter and the Council said no to that. She did not think that a vote <br />