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'Family’defined .
A QUESTION OF definitions produced some laughs in the otherwise exhausting marathon session of the Board of Supervisors on September 6.
Early in the meeting, Fanning Baumgardner, planning advisor, had informed the Supervisors that the planning commission felt it necessary to define “family” for application to regulations covering “one-family residences,” &c.
The definition arrived at was “a group of people related by blood, marriage or law.” This, said Baumgardner, would prevent situations “where we have multi-family occupation of single-family structures.”
Mrs. Alice Wood, who had quite a few objections during the public hearing, finally got around to this “family” definition business. She protested that this amounted to the Board of Supervisors’ “trying to legislate morals.”
LAUGHTER GREETED Mrs. Wood’s remark, but she insisted that it was a serious point. “What about common law marriages?” she asked.
Said Herbert S. Barksdale, chairman of the planning commission, “That’s just legal shacking-up. That was in existence before any zoning ordinances went into effect.”
This time the laughter was louder, and on that note the public hearing on the zoning and subdivision ordinances was formally closed.□
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