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THE BOARD NEXT DISCUSSED THE STREET NUMBERING SYSTEM IN SUMMERPLACE, AS PRESENTED IN SENIOR PLANNER MARSH'S FOLLOWING MEMORANDUM: DEPARTMENT October 29, 1979 MEM0 TO: Board of County Commissioners FROM: 7:3avid Marsh, Senior Planner SUBJECT: Street Numbering System - Summerplace At the request of Neil Nelson and several of the Board members, we have developed the following summary of the street numbering problem in the Summerplace Subdivision. This situation came to our attention approxi- mately three weeks ago when a Mr. Steven J. Kubina, a resident in that sub- division, submitted that many of the house numbers in the area were incorrect. This staff then followed up and determined that Mr. Kubina was correct in that the numbers assigned to houses on streets running generally west to east were in ascending rather than descending order. The mistake appears to have been made several years ago when a former member of this staff went through the entire subdivision assigning numbers in order to speed up the process when addresses are requested (this is a standard procedure when work loads allow the responsible staff member this opportunity). Simply put, however, it has been determined that the numbering was incorrectly done (probably shortly after the numbering system was implemented), and this problem has carried through without anyone noticing the discrepancy until now. Thus we are faced with the prospect of trying to rectify this error or, coming up with some type of solution. One of the considerations which this staff feels is very important in this regard is the extent of the problem. The following table shows the estimated number of houses where new numbers will need to be assigned if the problem is corrected. Summerplace Subdivision - Units 1 - 4: Estimated number houses which would be affected - 77 Number houses with addresses posted - 44 Number houses without addresses posted - 33 Estimated number of remaining lots which would be affected - 60 - 70 (An estimated 20 - 25% of these houses are not resided in at present) After researching this situation, we then contacted both emergency service and utility providers to determine what type of operational impacts had been experienced (or were anticipated) with the current system. In all cases, it was indicated that although the system was incorrect, it had not created any DAVIO M. REVER • DIRECTOR 14"' AVE. VERO BEACH, FLc3296O • 005/567-514 NOV - 7,979 29