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• • <br />• Minutes, Joint Public Hearing and Regular Meeting <br />July 15, 1981, Page 7 <br />nice home. But this 850 square. feet business, it looks to <br />me like instead of going forward you are trying to go back- <br />wards. Twill fight it as far as I can. <br />James Sitton - 10706 North "P" Street: T am also against <br />the 850 square foot houses.. One reason is because of the <br />type of people we will attract. and because the value of <br />your property goes down. I assure you if you get this type <br />of houses the people are more transient, they don't mind <br />going off and leaving that kind of house. You will find our <br />community will go down if we go to houses this small. I <br />wouldn't want to see it go less than R-1 but I would rather <br />see it stay 1250 as it was in Lomax. <br />Byron Bussey - 10902 Deaf Smith: I am definitely against it. <br />Developers have several lots out there and they will wind up <br />building little old 850 square foot houses. on each one of <br />them, and. it will wind up being a very bad community as far <br />as I am concerned. <br /> Janie Yeary: You are speaking of the 850 and 1050; I don't <br />• know, I can't remember but I think our. zoning was 1250, was <br /> it not, Mr. Malone? We are not talking about 1050. We are <br /> talking about 1250 when we are talking about not changing <br /> our ordinance. <br /> Askins: On the. consolidation, the ordinances of Lomax were <br /> no more. Lomax, since the date of the consolidation, has <br /> been in a temporary holding pattern, so to speak. Every bit <br /> of Lomax has been or is R-1 which is the very highest resi- <br /> dential rate we have under the La Porte zoning. Several <br /> property owners have come in, in the last year, because of <br /> their needs for rezoning. Even the previously commercial <br /> property was zoned R-l. From a legal standpoint, at this <br /> hearing we are not talking about reviving the old Lomax zoning <br /> ordinance, because Lomax is now an area of La Porte and comes <br /> under the La Porte ordinance. What we are trying to do tonight <br /> is establish the same commercial districts as "C" commercial, <br /> retail and apartments; Industrial as "C" commercial, retail <br /> and apartments, and the balance as before, residential. Now <br /> this is still a temporary situation because the entire City <br /> is under study and has been for a year or more. I think the <br /> basic question before us tonight is the two choices permitted <br /> under the La Porte zoning ordinance; that is, Rol with a mini- <br /> mum living area of 1050 square feet, or R-2 with a minimum <br /> living area of 850 square feet. Nemerous people here tonight <br /> <br />• have addressed that topic, and I wanted to clarify that because <br />