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4. PUBLIC DISCUSSION Chairman Ginn announced that Commissioner Kenneth Macht is at a United Way meeting and will join this meeting as soon as possible. Chairman Ginn then announced that all cell phones and/or pagers should be turned off. She briefly went over the procedural rules for this evening’s meeting: anyone wishing to speak should provide their name and address on the cards available outside the door. Speakers will be called in the order they signed up and each speaker will be allowed 3 minutes. Executive Aide to the Commission Kim Massung will hold up a red flag when the speaker has 30 seconds left and the speaker should then conclude his or her remarks. As the meeting is being televised live, she then read the Proposed Interim Growth Control Measures and announced that they can be found on the County’s website. The Chairman then began calling the names of the speakers who had registered and they were heard in the following order: Bob Solari , 730 Painted Bunting Lane, spoke in opposition to the proposed measures and read from a printed statement (copy of statement on file with backup for today’s meeting) mentioning several developments he felt were unwisely planned and permitted. He believed that no one who has lived in Indian River County for any length of time, or anyone in a leadership position, should be surprised by the growth in the County. He noted that the growth in the County is less than projected in the Comprehensive Plan, but the Plan is not giving the results desired by the residents. He felt that the visioning process could not be accomplished in 18 months but the process must not be rushed. He also expressed his fear that a moratorium on building would lead to as much as a 3% rise in the interest rate which could lead to a recession and the highest unemployment rate anyone has seen in this county. MARCH 8, 2004 2