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PROOF OF PUBLICATION OF ADVERTISEMENT FOR HEARING IS ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE <br />CLERK TO THE BOARD <br /> <br />Community Development Director Bob Keating reviewed the memorandum of <br />November 29, 2004 concerning this proposed amendment to Comp Plan using an aerial of subject <br />property and a PowerPoint outline to enhance his comprehensive presentation. He specified that <br />this is now a wooded site just west of SR A1A and is in the coastal high hazard zone. He advised <br />that the P & Z unanimously recommended for denial; that was staff’s recommendation as well. <br />We would have to amend the policy in the Comp Plan before this could be approved; that is the <br />policy not to put any more people in the Coastal High Hazard Area. Normally an applicant can be <br />persuaded not to pursue the request but this was not the case in this instance. <br /> <br />The Chairman opened the public hearing. <br /> <br />Michael O’Haire, <br /> a lawyer representing the applicant with offices on Cardinal <br />Drive in Vero Beach, advised he was unable to speak at the P & Z meeting because he was without <br />an office and without a home at the time due to hurricane damage. He claimed that the P & Z’s <br />decision that this plan is inconsistent with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan was wrong and that <br />Mr. Keating was wrong. He used an aerial photograph to show the location of the property in <br />relationship to properties taken off the boards for development by United States Fish and Wildlife <br />to point out that hundreds of acres have been taken over by the public sector and are no longer able <br />to be developed because of conservation designation. His point was that the densities were <br />established in 1990 (driven by a 1983 study), but densities were considerably reduced by placing <br />all those acres in conservation, and there would be little increase in density by development of this <br />subject parcel (development) whether by a normal subdivision or a planned development <br />application. They had applied for PD zoning as well as a Comp Plan change that he claimed are <br />routinely filed and processed simultaneously. When he saw the P & Z agenda without the PD <br />rezoning request, he contacted County Attorney Collins, and saw no reason why the two <br />December 7, 2004 <br />21 <br /> <br />