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Chairman Graves explained that the Board realized the <br />situation of the road, but the County has to consider how much the <br />right-of-way.is going to .cost and.that there is opposition on the <br />north side to the.paving of the road. Mr. Beindorf said they realized <br />that it was going to take a matter of months but that the property <br />owners had appeared en masse as they felt some action should be <br />initiated and is long overdue. <br />Dr. E. J. Vann, resident of Rosewood Road stated that he <br />believed this road has reached the point of being unsafe for travel. <br />The maintenance problem is a very.difficult thing and he feels a hard <br />surface should be made as a safety factor. <br />Chairman Graves then.asked to hear from the opposition. <br />Attorney Ken Sharpe, representing several property owners <br />in opposition to the proposed project and also a resident of Rose000d. <br />Road, stated that the residents in opposition had lived on the street <br />for a long period of time and the main reason for living there is be- <br />cause the natural beauty of the street is unique from the rest of the <br />County. It is a dead-end street as it comes to Kings Highway so to <br />improve the road would be only for the benefit of the adjoining property <br />owners. If the county sees fit to acquire additional right-of-way, it <br />will destroy pine trees and oak trees that have been there for years. <br />He requested the County to look into the feasibility of paving Rose- <br />wood Road with the existing right-of-way. <br />Mr. Ellis Duncan, owner of ten acres on Rosewood, has lived <br />there for seventeen years, stated that this was a unique situation as <br />everything needed for right-of-way comes from one side of the road. <br />He felt it would be an injustice to those who would have to give the <br />property. Mr. Duncan stated that recreational facilities would be hurt, <br />oaks, thirty-five years old, would be destroyed, Dr. Vinson's front <br />yard would be destroyed and several property owners would lose front <br />row of citrus trees. He stated that he believed the right-of-way <br />would be expensive. <br />• <br />BOOK 9 PAGE e34, <br />CST 2`0.1965 <br />