10/04/1966
TI.m PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD
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Minutes of the Meeting, Tu~sday, October 4, 1966.
The meeting was called to order at 3:00 P. M~ by the Chairmant
Mr. Krusc~ Present were Members Mylanderj Butler, Iley, Galloway
arid Reade, HI' ~ Rettig of the Engineering Department, and Mr'J Wolle .~--'-..
The minutes of the meetings of September 13, 1966, and Septem-
ber 20, 1966, were approved as submitted in written summation to
each member.
REVIEW or 1960 ATTRACTIONS REPORT - Chairman Kruse presented for
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discussion a request that consideration be given to a Board re-
study of the Attractions Report previously submitted to the City
Commission in 1960 at the Commissionts request~ Such report con-
tained the Board's proposals concerning needed attractions and its
recommendations in regard to possible sites for major attractions
in order of a priority. For the information, in particular., of Mem-
bers Iley and Butler, who were not on the Board in 1960, Mr. Wolle
gave a brief resume in regard to the preparation of the above
Attractions Report and of its content arrangement. The Planner fur-
theI' brought the Board up-to-date as to developments that have
taken place since preparation of ~his original report that should
be reviewed as affecting the prior recommendations submitted.
Among reasons given by Hr. Kruse for reconsideration being time-
ly at the present wnre the possibility of the City's havin;u ~!1terest
in acquisition of a site through participation in the Federal program
for Open Space grants and the reported recent emphasis on the part of
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the Attractions Committee of the Chamber of Commerce in securing new
attractions for Clearwater. It was learned that this Chamber com-
mittee (of which Mr. Kruse and Mr. Wolle are members) had not as yet
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submitted its report. Mr. Kruse indicated that Board study might fo-
cus on the desirability of obtaining the #1 priority site near the 1n-
tersection of US 19 and St. Road 60 before increasing land costs
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/.........., would make such acquis i tion prohipi ti VEl ~ AfttH' some pre liminal"'Y dis-
cussion, the Chairman suggested that Mr. Butler and Mr. Iley take a
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copy of the 1960 report for review and ~ppoiDted Mr. nutle~~ ~~. Ile~~
~n~L "Mr. Gallo\.,,~y as a committee to",-1"estudl the ~t~ractions Retlort and
make report to the ~oar~ as to how to again~~resent,re~mmendatiQ~~_,
to the Commission.
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Recognition was given to the election of Member Iley to the
Presidency of the Clearwater-La~go Board of Realtors and congratu-
lations were offered on this honor paid him.
PREPARATION FOR PUBLIC HEARING ZONING - Mr. Wolle reminded mem-
bers of this. public hearing to be held the following Monday and 'an-
nounced the availability of packets of reference material for those
who might attend. He advised that he might probably be meeting with
the Commissioners on Thursday morning for a discussion of the items.
Mr. Wolle further reported on discussions held with him by Commis-
sioner Stephens concerning the proposed service station amendment and
by Mr~ Hilleboe of,the local mobile home association concerning the
proposed Travel Park amendment.
FP~A CONFERENCE PROGRESS REPORT - The Planner reported on pro-
gress made in arrungements for the conference. It, was ann(l1.:~' :"ed that
Mr. ,Kruse was to be in charge of the Officials Luncheon on Thursday,
,November lath, at which former GovQ LeRoy Collins was to be the fea-
tured speaker; also that a Ladies Committee was being organizedQ
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BEAUTIFICATION EXHIBIT - CLEARWATER - The Planner informed the
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Board that Don Williams was serving as Exhibits Chairman. Upon sug-
gestion made by Mr. Wolle at this time, Mr. Kruse agreed to initiate
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arrangements for a Clearwater beauti.fication exhibit with the as-
sistance of some members of the Planning Board"
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KRUSE'S CRUISE - FOCUS ON SPAIN - MI~. Kruse gave a most in-
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teresting and enjoyable showing of slides of his recent tour of
England, Holland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy,
f~ance and Spain. Especially of scenic beauty'~ere views of gar-
dens and fountains of the Villa Borghese near Rome and those show-
ing the Moorish type architectural features of buildings in the
SpaniSh cities of , Barcelona, Granada. Seville, and Madrido
Planning literature was distributedo
The meeting was adjourned at 4:55 Po M6
Respectfully submitted,
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