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• • <br />• Joint Public Hearing, La Porte City Council and the <br />Planning & Zoning Commission, February 18, 1981, Page 2 <br />Carlos Smith came forward as spokesman for Sheffield. <br />Smith presented a review of the proposed project, a <br />planned unit development, consisting of 81 townhomes <br />protected by a six-foot fence with a 24-hour guard on <br />duty. The project will cost between 13 and 14 million <br />dollars and will take 3 years to complete. <br />Questions from the floor: <br />Drew Adams - Are these units going to be for sale or lease? <br />Carlos Smith - The units will sell for from $100,000.00 to <br />$225,000.00. <br />Frank Adams - How are you going to drain the area? <br />Smith - All drainage will go to the Bay. <br />Dorothy Nettles - How will this affect the taxes on our <br />property? <br />Smith - It will not affect your taxes; for that matter, <br />• the income from this project should help to lower <br />your taxes. <br />Drew Adams <br />- What if you change your mind and after this <br />property is rezoned you decide to build some <br />other commercial project? <br />Knox Askins - I can answer that. This ordinance rezoning <br />this particular property will only allow 81 <br />planned unit development as Mr. Sheffield is <br />proposing. <br />James Wight addressed the Council, saying he is a property <br />owner next door and they spend summers and weekends there. <br />They have been concerned to have something done with the <br />bay front to stop erosion. He and his wife were very <br />pleased with their prospective new neighbors. <br />Richard Florance addressed the Council in favor of the <br />rezoning. <br />Mayor Meza asked the Planning & Zoning to retire to the <br />conference room to prepare their recommendation in the two <br />cases they had heard. They did so at 7:55 P.M. <br />• Planning & Zoning Commission returned to the Council Chamber <br />at 8:20 P.M. with their recommendation. <br />