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Commissioner Macht explained that the state mandated the Comprehensive Plan program and it took a long time to compile it. Later the state passed the Bert Harris Act that has taken away the decision ability of the Commissioners to decide on another category that they feel may be more suitable than what is requested. He believes we should challenge that law. Commissioner Lowther read Attorney Collin’s comments on a moratorium (copy in the backup) and he believed the people who came before them should be on a task force to deal with the problems without a moratorium. Commissioner Adams agreed to appoint a task force to come together and tell the Board the issues. She said everyone is in a state of panic over growth when it is nothing more than exactly what was expected in the Comprehensive Plan. She does not feel that needs to be reshaped. She reminisced about the recession of the early 1980s and 1990’s when they had a downturn in business and she watched friends suffer financially during that period. She believes the money is not in the community for everyone to be able to afford three units per acre and she will not approve a measure that she believes will cause people to be financially burdened, especially when it will take them years to get back on their feet. She was emphatic in saying that Caroline’s interim growth measure is a very discriminatory moratorium affecting multi-family development and anything more than 3-units per acre. Commissioner Adams said she is aware there is a problem. She felt the Board missed their opportunity to provide buffers between residential and agricultural. They have also not addressed the buffers between multi-family and rights-of-ways. They missed the chance to strengthen the tree ordinance and make a tree bank, and that still needs to be done. She would like to take the economic model made by Michael Buska of the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council and, with these workshops, make it work. ON MOTION by Commissioner Adams, SECONDED by Commissioner Neuberger, the Board unanimously March 9, 2004 21