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<br />f. /". <br /> <br />f..,- 'JI <br /> <br />TUESDAY <br /> <br />JULY 24, 1979 <br /> <br />City Attorney David B. Worthy, subsequent to Council's July 10th meeting, having ruled that <br /> <br />the proposed updating of the City's Comprehensive Plan (including the City's Land-Use Plan) <br /> <br />was not legally adopted by Council by its action at said July lOth meeting because the adopting <br /> <br />ordinance did not declare an emergency, Council considered this matter as being on second <br /> <br />reading (at the meeting herein covered by these minutes) and gave parties interested therein <br /> <br />an opportunity to comment thereon, noting that representatives of Lanier Farm inadvertently <br /> <br />were not present at Council's July lOth duly-advertised public hearing. Speaking on behalf <br /> <br />-, <br /> <br />of Lanier Farm, Mr. Jackson C. Dodge, its president, displayed several maps and drawings, <br /> <br />beginning with Lanier Farm's general development plan (prepared some forty-to-fifty years ago) <br /> <br />up to the proposed Land-Use Plan revision under consideration, on which proposed plan was <br /> <br />superimposed Lanier Farm's designated park areas for which the current Land-Use Plan had <br /> <br />assigned an "Open Space Transitional" classification and for which the proposed Land-Use Plan <br /> <br />would assign a "Permanent Open Space" classification. Mr. Dodge not only strongly protested <br /> <br />the proposed classification for Lanier Farm's so-called park areas but also vigorously argued <br /> <br />Lanier Farm's right to develop such of these areas as, in Lanier Farm's judgment, can be <br /> <br />feasibly developed. As to the remaining tracts of park areas, excluding Lake Lanier (which <br /> <br />Lanier Farm expressed its intention to maintain and control), Mr. Dodge indicated that Lanier <br /> <br />Farm would deed these in fee simple to the City, if the City will accept same. Present at <br /> <br />this meeting, too, were citizens and/or property owners from the Forest Park-Druid Hills <br /> <br />areas, all of whom (apparently) are opposed to Lanier Farm's expressed resolve to develop <br /> <br />certain of its park areas, on the premise that not only would such development (using <br /> <br />chalet-type homes) depreciate their properties and be at variance with the aesthetic planning <br /> <br />developed for the Forest Park-Druid Hills areas by Mr. Rives S. Brown, Sr., many years ago <br /> <br />but also would be at variance with the reported assurance (when these owners purchased their <br /> <br />properties) that such park areas would always remain park areas. Among the citizens/property <br /> <br />owners speaking to this matter were: <br />