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I I, 1 PUBLIC HEARING ON ZONING CHANGE AND SPECIAL MEETING OF TH E C /TV COUNC I L OF TH E C /TV OF SAN MARCOS, MARCH I, 1966 Present: Mayor Ell is Serur Aldermen: Caesar A. Damon Joe C. Froh Wi II i am C. Poo I A.G. Tuttle Mark H. Whittenberg City Manager City Secretary W.E. Wolff Dorothy O. Worrel I Visitors: Mr. and Mrs. C.W. Jennings, Lucian Parrish, David M. Dai ley, Victoria Wi Ison, Mr. and Mrs. Winston C. Patton, Kenneth Weatherford, Ed G. Giesen, Jim Carney, Leland Jackson, Jack Major, Col. Clinton W. Bal I, W.C. Howard, Col. James W. Hi II, Wi II iam Veidt, J.B. Roberts, Mary H. Etheredge, Mrs. Katherine Hardeman and others The Mayor cal led the meeting to order at 5:30 p.m. Members of the Counci I signed Consent to Meeting. Mayor Serur announced the opening of the Public Hearing, and read aloud a letter from Chairman J.B. Roberts of the Planning and Zoning Commission, as follows, in explanation of the Hearing: "On Tuesday, February 15, 1966, at 7:30, a Public Hearing was held by the Planning and Zoning Commission on a request by Mr. Patton on a change of zoning on Lot 2 and part of 3, Block I, of the G.W. Donalson Addition. More than 20% of the residents within 200 feet of this property objected to a change of zoning. In accordance with our zoning ordinance the Planning and Zoning Commission was required ~o deny the change. We recommend that this ordinance be followed." Alderman Froh asked if it had been assured that 20% of the owners of adjacent property had objected to the zoning change. The Mayor called on Mr. Roberts to answer; he stated that the signatures on the Protest Petition comprised more than the 20% required by the Zoning Ordinance. He added: "Our action was more or less automatic. We had no choice but to comply with the Zoning Ordi- nance and State law." The Mayor recognized Winston Patton, who stated there had been a misunderstanding created by the published notice for the original publ ic hearing. He explained that two persons had made separate requests for change of zoning from "R" to "0". The lots back on eachother, and the property description was so simi lar that the two requests were combined in one notice, without explanation that two different persons had requested the changes, and that an al ley separated the two properties. Neighbors feared a big apartment house was going in, and started the protest petition. Mrs. Victoria (Herring) Wi Ison, the second person who had re- quested the zoning change, corroborated Mr. Patton's statements. She said she had bought a lot near her motel, and had expected to build a duplex or apartment house. Jack Major, Bui Iding Inspector,