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To: Planning Commission Members Date: December 9, 1998 Re: Rezoning Request(s) Morgan Co. Garden Supply December 16, 1998 meeting It was implied at the Nov. 17 Planning Commission meeting that all property east of the garden center to Five Points was zoned agricultural, and therefore the area was not considered residential. There are a lot of hoxneowners who certainly challenge this overview of where they have lived and raised their families the past several decades. Five soil tests were taken on the property on Nov. 10, all by the same person, all on the same day. This was done on perhaps the driest time of the year, and when the soil would record the best results. The reports were still poor, but we do not believe the results of the reports were fully explained to or understood by the Planning Commission. The reports themselves state that they do not, in anyway, imply to grant permit for any activity on the property that doesn't already exist. The decision of the Planning Commission on December 16, will determine the future use of this property. If it is approved, then we must live with whatever is put onto the property, and whatever effect it may have on our neighborhood. It is believed that this request will be used as a future stepping stone to eventually get the entire 11 acres zoned for business. Once the front 4 acres are zoned for business, it will be presented to the Commission that the back 7 acre portion, after all, is not really suitable for residential. And, since the frontage is business, it only seems logical that the back property also be rezoned. Yes this is only speculation, but we have been attending these Planning Commission and Town Council meetings long enough to realize how a denied request is rearranged and changed from meeting to meeting and month to month to gradually confuse and wear down opposition and get approvals piece by piece until the total package is approved. As you know, the rezoning of this very property was denied earlier this year by both the Planning Commission and the Town Council. We are dealing with the same players, and there has been no known significant change in the original intended use for this property.