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-2- <br /> 11 . With B-2 on both sides of Dipper Lane, bt-1 use at the South <br /> end of Dipper Lane, and R-6 on Dipper Lane and Elder Lane, <br /> it appears that any objections by residents that the proposed <br /> usage would change the neighborhood are spurious and erroneous. <br /> Indeed, all three houses on Dipper Lane aad at the end of <br /> Macon Street appear to have been constructed after the area <br /> had already been developed by multi-family units and com- <br /> mercial users. Certainly they have accepted such an environ- <br /> ment and use and cannot now complain that this type of use <br /> is new and different from what they expected. <br /> 12. The proposed usage will not be disruptive and detrimental to <br /> the neighborhood because the neighborhood is already com- <br /> mercial, multi-family, or industrial by use and zoning. <br /> There are sufficient zoning buffers for the neighborhood. <br /> The three R-3 lots with frontage on Dipper Lane are charged <br /> with the knowledge that they were adjacent to and ia an area <br /> of multi-family and commercial activity. Indeed, the one <br /> residence with a Dipper Lane address is built next to apart- <br /> ment houses, and when purchased by the current owners, there <br /> was a sign notifying the public that a change in zoning was <br /> being petitioned for. <br /> 13. The matter of access, traffic, and safety are not to be solved <br /> by zoning, but by Staff at the time a building permit is issued. <br /> It is not contemplated by petitioner that present capabiiities <br /> of present streets will handle future capacities. Future <br /> capacities must be as revised to a11ow for then existing <br /> traffic and conditions. Those concerns are for others to <br /> handle, as they have been done in the past, to allow for <br /> orderly and adequate growth in the capacity of the City of <br /> Decatur to meet the needs of a growi.ng City, by an adequate <br /> and informed professionaL staff. <br /> 14. Because no resident near this property can prove harm or can <br /> seriously argue that the area will be changed from existiag <br /> use, <br /> and because of the existing usages <br /> and because of the existing buffer zones <br /> and because of the lack of convenient neighborhood facilities <br /> in this area along with the fuel shortages <br /> and because of the expanding population to the West <br /> and because of the often cited need for additional good <br /> restaurant facilities <br />