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Christine Sheridan of 177 East County Line Road stated that she felt the current lot sizes were too small and that it would be better to make larger lots and put in fewer doubles. Mr. Lawson then spoke to the comments. In particular, he stated that the comments regarding danger to children and drainage were not pertinent to the issue at hand. He also stated that these problems could be dealt with as the property was developed. Again he stated that the three-family units could be put in under the ordinance and that this could be done without any variance. He also addressed the drainage problem which had been dealt with in the initial rezoning and felt that it was far better than it had been in the past. The board then proceeded to findings of fact. Wendell Thaler stated that he did not feel the variance would be injurious to the public health, safety, morals or general welfare of the community in that the nature of the lot size was not significant to other potential uses of the property which would have up to three family dwellings. Tilford Bailey agreed with this and Warren Franklin and Steve Oschman stated that they were in agreement with this finding. The board next proceeded to the finding that the use of the value of the area adjacent to the property included in the variance would not be affected in a substantially adverse manner in that if smaller homes were put in or three family dwelling units the values could be affected and for this reason the granting of this variance would not have any substantial impact on the area. Tilford Bailey agreed with this finding as stated by Wendell Thaler and Warren Franklin stated that he saw no problem with this. Steve Oschman stated that the strict application of of the zoning ordinance would the terms result in practical difficulties in the --3--