1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting, July 15, 1981, Page 12 Hutchins: T understand that. in a town or subdivision that has 6,000 square foot lots, then I could understand the 850 square foot house, but I cannot understand it when you've got acreage and that's what most of Lomax is. C. E. Furlow: I bought a piece of property down the street from me a couple of year ago and people were living in it at the time that I bought it. I thought that the house was un- desirable. I came to the conclusion the people who would rent this house were not the type I wanted to live next to. Now, Mrs. Waters knows my family and she knows we don't have any gold in our back yard, but I do know that you have a lot of people that when they get into a little house they don't do much to try to improve it. T would venture to say that most of you people live in a Fairmont Park type house or better. I think the people in our area would like that, and we will not get it with a chicken coop of a house, 850 square feet. I'm not a speaker, but I do know that when you lower your standards, you are not going forward. • Danny Jeanes - 10930 North "L" Street: I'd like to say I'm not really concerned with small houses. We paid good money for that land out there and we want a good place for our kids to grow up in. We want the larger houses and I think I can speak for most of them, we don't want any more trailer parks. The low housing, you can provide low cost housing here in La Porte. We would like. to keep our larger houses. That's what we paid for and that's why we are out there. D. Walker: What I would like. to suggest to Council is that you leave Lomax in R-1 until such time as the overall plan is developed, to prevent someone from buying 20 acres and throwing up a bunch of these 850 foot houses in. Maybe you would consider that. Westergren: Wait a minute; am I to understand you want us to leave all of Lomax R-1? Walker: No, I mean the residential aspect. I think everyone is happy with the commercial back like it was. I'm talking about the residential in the heart of the City. If it can be left R-1 with a minimum of 1050 square feet until you get your overall program, then let's take a look at it. Faris: Mr. Walker, I think everybody has been speaking directly to that issue tonight. • Walker: I think we have talked all around it. Nobody has just out and asked the Council for this.