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HAVE NOT BEEN MADE INTO STREETS, AND SOME OF THESE ARE VERY VALUABLE LOTS. AFTER SOME DISCUSSION, THE CHAIRMAN STATED THAT HE HAD NO OBJECTION TO THE COORDINATOR PURSUING THIS MATTER FURTHER WITH THE CITY OF VERO BEACH, THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. ATTORNEY JEROME QUINN CAME BEFORE THE BOARD REPRESENTING KEITH MARTIN WHO IS REQUESTING ABANDONMENT OF THAT PART OF OLEANDER AVENUE LYING BETWEEN POINSETTIA BOULEVARD AND ORANGE STREET. ZONING DIRECTOR WALKER INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE HAS RESEARCHED THIS AND WHILE HE HAS FOUND NO PROBLEM WITH ABANDONING THIS ROAD, HE POINTED OUT THAT WE ARE GOING TO NEED PROPERTY FOR WATER AND SEWER LINES AND WILL NEED AT LEAST A MINIMUM IO' EASEMENT OR WE WILL BE BLOCKING OURSELVES OFF. CHAIRMAN WODTKE DISCUSSED THE MATTER OF ACCESS FOR THE LOTS ON THE WEST SIDE OF OLEANDER AVENUE, AND COMMISSIONER SIEBERT POINTED OUT THAT AN ABANDONMENT MUST BE JOINED IN BY ALL ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS, AND THE NOTICE AND ADVERTISEMENT PAID FOR BY THEM. IN DISCUSSION, IT WAS NOTED THAT THERE ARE TWO OWNERS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THIS PORTION OF OLEANDER AVENUE AND ONE ON THE WEST SIDE. IT WAS FELT IF YOU ABANDON ANYTHING, YOU SHOULD ABANDON IT ALL, AND IT, THEREFORE, WOULD BE NECESSARY TO HAVE THE CONCURRENCE OF ALL THE PROPERTY OWNERS BORDERING ON THE STREET. ADMINISTRATOR JENNINGS CONCURRED THAT THE WHOLE THING SHOULD BE ABANDONED RATHER THAN PART, SUBJECT TO RETAINING A PROPER EASEMENT FOR PUBLIC UTILITIES TO BE DETERMINED BY THE COUNTY PRIOR TO THE ABANDON- MENT. HE NOTED THAT THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS INTERSECTION AND THERE IS NO NEED FOR IT. THE ADMINISTRATOR WAS OF THE OPINION THAT 15' WOULD BE A MORE REALISTIC MINIMUM FOR SUCH AN EASEMENT, ATTORNEY QUINN FELT THAT IS LARGER THAN MOST EASEMENTS NORMALLY HAVE BEEN, AND THE ADMINISTRATOR AGREED THAT WE HAVE SOME AS SMALL AS 2-1/2' OR 5', BUT THOSE WERE MISTAKES MADE IN THE PAST THAT WE ARE TRYING NOT TO REPEAT. 25 J U N .61979 BooK 40 PAGE 400