1981-07-15 Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting

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• • Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting July 15, 1981, Page 6 Muston: In the La Porte ordinance, R-2 is 850 square feet and R-l is 1050 square feet. Westergrens 1200 is not relevant to this discussion, then. Skelton: Right now it is 1050 square feet. Malone.:. The reason they. are saying 1250 is because that is what it was prior to consolidation. There are some awfully nice homes out there. The people out there, like myself, moved out there to have a larger home on a larger lot. The problem is not objecting to the smaller home because of its soaking up water, because the lot size will be the same.. That's not. the question. We're going to get our water and sewer problems straightened out. What our citizens want for that area is a home a little larger-and a little better than an 850 square foot home. In California, a home costs $250,000. the same house here costs $90,000. We really can't worry about the prices of homes. When most of us up here built our homes we were probably making $7,000 per year and a home cost $13,000. If you multiply that by .the increased inflation, the houses are going to cost that much more but salaries have increased also. Now if these people can buy boats, yachts, and go on ski trips and vacations all year, they can afford to spend something on a home that's going to last them a life- time. So I think this is what the people want. They want a nice home along side what they have. Because most of the homes out there are 1250 square feet or more except the ones that came under the grandfather clause 10 years ago. Paul Neuman - 1801 Lomax School Road: I am 100 percent against the 850 square foot houses. I agree with this gentlemen here about you can't get but so many houses in so many square feet, but you're not going to lower the standard. of housing out there. This is food for thought. Think of the size of your house and put 850 square foot house in it. I bet you don't think you have room now. I think an 850 square foot house is no house at all. I have a fairly nice home, and I don't want somebody moving across the street from me in an $50 square foot house because it's going to drop the value of my place. The people got together back when Lomax zoned and it was a big fight back then. We did not want anything that small then, and we still don't. Clarence Perdel - 4619 La Paz in Pasadena: I bought a piece of property in Lomax for the simple reason that it was a pretty nice place. The restrictions were real nice, the houses were a • nice size and I felt like it would be a nice place to build a