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9 <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED IF AT THE SAME TIME THE COUNTY COULD <br />REMOVE THE TREES PLANTED IN THE PARK AREA ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET. <br />THE ADMINISTRATOR STATED THAT THE ENTIRE PARK AREA COULD BE <br />CLEARED, <br />MR. DRAGAVON STATED THAT RATHER THAN HAVE THE COUNTY GO TO THIS <br />EXPENSE AND TROUBLE, HE WILL JUST TOLERATE THE PROBLEM AND WITHDRAW HIS <br />REQUEST. <br />CHAIRMAN SIEBERT INFORMED THE BOARD THAT ATTORNEY COLLINS HAS <br />PREPARED A PROPOSED RESOLUTION TO THE D.U.T. IN REGARD TO AN ACCESS POINT <br />TO INDIAN RIVER BOULEVARD. HE CONTINUED THAT HE FELT THIS MATTER COULD BE <br />RESOLVED SATISFACTORILY FOR ALL CONCERNED, AND ASKED IF ANYONE PRESENT <br />WISHED TO SPEAK IN THIS REGARD. <br />a <br />LOMAX GWATHMEY, DIRECTOR OF VERO ISLES ASSOCIATION, APPEARED AND <br />STATED THAT THE ASSOCIATION HAD BEEN MISLED BY THE D.O.T. WHEN THEY RE— <br />VIEWED THE SITUATION WITH THEM IN DECEMBER, AS THEY WERE LED TO BELIEVE <br />THAT PARK AVENUE COULD NOT BE CONSIDERED FOR AN ENTRANCE AS IT WAS TOO <br />CLOSE TO 21ST STREET, AND THEY WERE TOLD THAT ALL THAT WAS NEEDED TO HAVE <br />THE ENTRANCE PUT AT STARFISH DRIVE WAS A JOINT REQUEST FROM VERO ISLES <br />ASSOCIATION AND THE CITY OF VERO BEACH, WHICH HAS BEEN DONE. <br />I MR. GWATHMEY CONTINUED THAT NOW THE D.U.T. HAS APPARENTLY RE— <br />VERSED THE SITUATION AND GIVES ONLY TWO CHOICES, 21ST STREET OR 23RD STREET, <br />f <br />EITHER OF WHICH WILL DEGRADE SOMEONE'S PROPERTY. HE THEN REQUESTED THAT <br />BEFORE THE BOARD MAKES A RESOLUTION THEY EXPLORE WITH THE D.O.T. THE <br />I POSSIBILITY OF OFFSETTING 21ST STREET APPROXIMATELY 140 FEET TO THE NORTH <br />t <br />SO THAT IT WILL LINE UP WITH PARK AVENUE AS HE FELT THIS WOULD OFFER THE <br />LEAST OBJECTIONABLE SOLUTION TO THE PROBLEM, <br />COMMISSIONER WODTKE ASKED WHAT THE OBJECTION WAS TO KEEPING <br />21ST STREET STRAIGHT. <br />MR. GWATHMEY REPLIED THAT THIS WOULD DEGRADE THE PROPERTY OF <br />CHARLES PARKS AND WOULD, IN ADDITION, NECESSITATE TWO RIGHT—ANGLE TURNS <br />/ <br />IN ORDER TO GET TO THE PUBLIC PARK. <br />i <br />' ROBERT GRAVES STATED THAT HE WAS MAINLY CONCERNED WITH THE NEED <br />FOR A TRAFFIC LIGHT AS THERE ARE QUITE A FEW ELDERLY PEOPLE LIVING IN VERO <br />ISLES, AND IT IS DIFFICULT TO ENTER THE TRAFFIC. <br />i <br />76 9 <br />APR 7 6 <br />