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On a Motion made by Commissioner Macdonald, seconded by Commissioner Bogosian the following resolution was unanimously adopted: RESOLUTTON'NO. 67L.' 79' The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County, Florida, resolves 1. That this Board notes that the State Road Department of Florida, in its construction program of work for the year ending June 30, 1968, pro- poses to construct Interstate 95, State Road 9, from the Brevard County Line south to State Road 60 and upon completion of that construction, it is antici- pated that Interstate 95 will be completed from Jacksonville to State Road 60 in this county and said highway will undoubtedly generate a vast amount of traffic destined for the part of Florida south of Indian River County and the only available road to carry the traffic is State Road 60, which is a two laned road passing through the center of the City of Vero Beach. For more than ten years, this board has requested the State Road Department to widen and four lane State Road 60 and it is now apparent that the construction of Interstate 95 will bring to State Road 60 a volume of traffic far in excess of that imposed upon this already overloaded highway to such an extent that it appears to this board that it will be impossible for State Road 60 in its present condition to carry the traffic. This board is further aware of the fact that the State Road Department's proposed five year primary highways construction program for the fiscal year 1968 through 1972 proposes in three separate projects to four lane State Road 60 from Interstate 95 proceeding eastward to the Florida East Coast Railway but said construction will be after the arrival of the critical traffic mentioned above and will further aggravate an obviously impossible condition and in order to anticipate the apparent necessity of State Road 60 to carry Interstate 95 traffic until Interstate 95 is constructed further south, this board requests the State Road Department to immediately make a survey to establish means of handling this traffic and this board particularly requests that the proposed construction on State Road 60 begin in the next fiscal year at the Florida East Coast Railroad crossing and proceed west to Interstate 95 so that the proposed construction on State Road 60 will be completed prior to the completion of the juncture of Interstate 95 with State Road 60 and the State DEC 20 .06 nnot 10 mu556 Smith, Heath, Smith & O'Haire, Attorneys At Law, Vero Beach, Florida 7