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II in i *•* ill* i IIVI r» niSt., Columbia, S. C.City Sued on RezoningwBy COl FRI O Bt I TONSuit was filed n the Circuit Court at Tavares Wednesday seeking to enjoin tie City of Fus-tis from rezoning two selected parcels of land in a residentially zoned area for o’her useIt is directed against an ordinance amendment which has been given the three required readings bv the Eustis Citv Commission.t* »The change makes lots 12 through 16 in Weavers Subdivision available for commercial usage and two lots in Norton’s Addition available for light industryThe rezoning was approved by the city in direct opposition to the unanimous recommendation of its planning commission that no change be made All members of the three-man board resigned in t protest against the city’s rezoning actionThe suit was by T. H Poole, S.T.E, Pinkney, Queen Lowe, Bishop Rroomfield, Albert Weaver. Jewell Wilson and Ernest Snllet, on behalf of themselves and others similarly situated Petitioners charge the rezomng is an act of discrimination, depriving them jointly and several ly of the equal- provisions of intent of its own zoning ordinance ‘ The change as proposed, peti tioners complain, is made in the blocks in which their property is located ‘thereby discriminating against said blocks by flagrantl.v spot zoning them They protest that the zoning change, as it pertains to them is unreasonable, unconscionable, capricious and contrary to the spirit and intent of the Zoning Ordinance of 1961 as adopted by the City CommissionThe suit sets forth that the petitioners have owned property in the area for a number of years; that their homes are con-tigious to the area in process of being reznned The operation of businesses permitted by law under the amended classification, petitioners allege, will constitute as nuisance to them in that noises and fumes of the business people and automobiles and trains frequenting such places and/or industrial sites incident to its operation as an industrial business is offensiveHearing on reqtit st for a tern porary restraining order stopping the City of Eustis from carrying out a rezoning of properties ir the city’s southwest section will he held before Circuit Judge D R Smith Tuesday, Feb. Ik, at 4 p.m. in the court house .
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Eustis News
Eustis, Florida, US
Thu, Feb 10, 2000
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