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Community Development Director Bob Keating, through a PowerPoint presentation and a recap of his memorandum dated October 15, 2007, explained the different elements of the Comprehensive Plan for proposed amendment. He asked the Board to approve staff's recommendation to adopt the ordinance approving the new Public School Facilities Element, the text amendment to the Capital Improvements Element, and to the Intergovernmental Coordination Element of the Comprehensive Plan. Director Keating announced that Indian River County was the first community in the State to submit its School Concurrency document. He thereafter responded to questions from the Board regarding whether the School Board was in approval of everything presented today, and whether staff knew they would be responsible for monitoring this process. The Chairman opened the public hearing. Joseph Paladin, Developer, complimented staff on being No. 1 in meeting this achievement. He spoke about the imposition of sanctions from the State against counties or municipalities that had not adopted Senate Bill #360 (SB360) and asked whether this amendment would be on a different level as far as adopting SB360 with School concurrency. Director Keating said we would find out in 2008 whether the Legislature would enforce some of the rules like school concurrency. Joe Wiggins, 895 SW 11th Street, spoke about land use and the proposal to get a high school built in his area and asked what would happen to all that land that would not be used to build schools. He was concerned that students would have to travel farther away when lands were available for building schools in their area. Director Keating acknowledged the good points raised by Mr. Wiggins, and explained the School District's intent to add more capacity in certain areas. He disclosed that concurrency would be met in the 5 -year period without building a new high school. 17 October 23, 2007