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January 16, 1979 Minutes - page 10 ORDINANCE NO. 623 PUBLIC HEARING CONTINUED What you do tonight in no way is going to take away the City of Louisville's right to preserve that property for open space. You can always acquire it, you can con- demn it. You have those powers. What it will do is preserve the private property owners right to make reasonable use of his property. Zoning again is that balancing between the private interest and the public interest. Now, if that open space design- ation is being utilized to stop this pro- perty from being reasonably used, it seems to me that it is an illegal use of your comprehensive plan because you have to allow reasonable use of that property, but even if you go ahead and approve this re- zoning tonight, you have still got the opportunity and right to condemn this pro- perty for open space. You can't condemn it indirectly though by continuing to zone it for agricultural purposes inside a municipality so that the property owner can't make reasonable use of it, so in other words rezoning this property is not going to destroy any buffer; it is not going to destroy the comprehensive plan, it is not going to destroy this Councils ability to acquire that property. It is going to preserve a constitutional right of the property owners. At this time I would like to ask Mr. Ray Caranci to step forward and I would like to ask him some questions in support of this. Please state your name. My name is Raymond Caranci, I live at 9680 Robert Place, Louisville. I'm one of the principles in the Aquarius Corpora- tion. Porter: When was the property acquired by you group Mr. Caranci. Caranci: We acquired this in 1970. Porter: And, it was in the County at that time? Caranci: It was in the County and we wanted to bring it into the City for future de- velopment. Porter: Now at the time of your annexation