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Ag <br />AS YOU PROPOSE. YOUR SINCERITY AND THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT YOU PROPOSE <br />IS ENOUGH FOR ME TO ENDORSE YOUR REZONING. CITIES AND COUNTIES CANNOT <br />STAND STILL AND REMAIN HEALTHY AND PROGRESSIVE." <br />MR. PADGETT THEN QUOTED FROM A FEDERAL STUDY ENTITLED "THE <br />COST OF SPRAWL," WHICH STATES THAT IT IS NOT DESIRABLE ECONOMICALLY <br />4 <br />OR ENVIRONMENTALLY FOR A COMMUNITY TO DEVELOP MOST OF ITS LAND IN <br />SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL, BECAUSE IT COSTS THE COMMUNITY MORE IN <br />SERVICES. MR, PADGETT POINTED OUT THAT ADLEY AND ASSOCIATES STATED <br />THAT NOWHERE IN THE PLAN HAS THERE BEEN INDICATED WHAT WOULD NORMALLY <br />BE CONSIDERED HIGH DENSITY. THEY FELT DEVELOPERS SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED <br />TO USE PUD AND CLUSTER UNIT DEVELOPMENT WHEREVER POSSIBLE. <br />MR. PADGETT CONTINUED THAT THE MAJOR ISSUE RAISED BY THE <br />OPPOSITION IS THAT MULTIFAMILY ZONING WOULD DOWNGRADE THE AREA. HE <br />STATED THAT MUCH OF HIS OPPOSITION COMES FROM PEOPLE IN THE MOORINGS <br />AND NOTED THAT THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 100 HOUSES IN THE MOORINGS <br />WHILE THERE ARE 424 MULTIFAMILY UNITS COMPLETED OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION. <br />THERE ALSO IS COMMERCIAL ZONING IN THE MOORINGS. SIR. PADGETT FELT THE <br />MAJORITY OF THOSE OPPOSING HIS PLAN LIVE IN MULTI -FAMILY AND ASKED IF <br />IT IS RIGHT FOR THEM TO LIVE IN MULTI -FAMILY BUT PROHIBIT IT FOR OTHERS. <br />HE FURTHER NOTED THAT JOHN'S ISLAND HAS 328 HOUSES AND 423 MULTI -FAMILY <br />UNITS AND DID NOT BELIEVE ANYONE WOULD CONSIDER EITHER JOHN'S .ISLAND <br />OR THE MOORINGS DOWNGRADED AREAS, HE FELT DOWNGRADING IS A FALSE <br />ISSUE. MR. PADGETT THEN NOTED THAT "LET'S NOT MAKE THIS ANOTHER FT. <br />LAUDERDALE" IS A STATEMENT THAT'S HEARD OVER AND OVER, AND HE IS IN <br />COMPLETE AGREEMENT WITH THAT THOUGHT, BUT INSTEAD OF ALWAYS TALKING <br />ABOUT IT, HE IS DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT. HE STATED THAT YOU WON'T <br />FIND ANYTHING LIKE SEA GROVE IN FT. LAUDERDALE, AND THERE NEVER WILL <br />BE ANY RESEMBLANCE. HE POINTED OUT THAT THE EXTREME ZONING IN THIS <br />COMMUNITY WILL AUTOMATICALLY PRECLUDE ANYTHING LIKE FT. LAUDERDALE <br />AND FELT THIS IS ANOTHER FALSE ISSUE. REGARDING TRAFFIC CONGESTION, <br />MR. PADGETT PRESENTED A CHART SHOWING A PROJECTED DENSITY ON SOUTH <br />BEACH OF A POTENTIAL 2,910 UNITS, WHICH WOULD RESULT IN A DENSITY ON <br />THE SOUTH BEACH OF 1.35 UNITS PER ACRE. MR. PADGETT NOTED THE AVERAGE <br />SINGLE FAMILY HOUSE WILL CREATE MORE AUTO'TRAFFIC, CONSUME MORE <br />UTILITIES, AND WILL COST MORE TO MAINTAIN THAN TWO MULTI -FAMILY UNITS. <br />6 <br />AD, Vu� '2 <br />OCT 2 1970 <br />