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Public Works Director James Davis gave an historical account of how in the late 1990s the Public Works Department did an extensive study to try to get petition paving and drainage accomplished in the subdivision; however, most of the lots were owned by out-of-county investors in south Florida. In addition, the County’s hired environmental consultant came up with a very extensive and expensive mitigation plan that was acceptable to the various agencies but was just not feasible. He pointed out on a map the gas and Florida Power & Light transmission lines located within the subdivision. FPL actually owns many of the lots. To come up with a mitigation plan would be very difficult and would not be cost-effective. Trucks hauling fill from the Corrigan Ranch will travel on the paved road after it is built and create less noise. Cliff Norris , 1408 Club Drive, a nearly 40-year resident, spoke in favor of the project. He thought we have an opportunity to start the ball rolling which will attract a major national company to improve job opportunities. He also favored using our tax dollars to do this and hoped the Board would vote to support it. Ms. Renzi had another question concerning Policy 1.36 because it speaks of 101.8 acres, but the project calls for 142.42 acres, and Director Boling again explained and illustrated how the site was designated in two steps. Penny Chandler , Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce for Indian River County, noted there is a lot of emotion about growth now, but sometimes facts do not always accompany those emotions. Her agency’s role has been to put Indian River County into a position to attract companies and make it sensible for those already here to grow. She explained why other I-95 locations were not used. She pointed out that truck traffic has been on SR-60 even when it was 2 lanes; the MPO has talked about widening it; and Florida Department of Transportation has had plans to widen it for quite some time. The widening of SR-60 puts us at a critical crossroads. th There has been an active sand pit out there for quite some time using 98 Avenue for transportation. With respect to a tax subsidy, she anticipated that this property would undergo from $60 to $80 million in improvements from which there would be approximately $1.4 million per year generated in new tax revenues. This would help relieve the so often mentioned “burden on February 17, 2004 11