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Vera Toulson , 95 Cache Cay Drive, disagreed with Mr. Christopher. She had recently sat at a meeting in Indian River Shores and they wish A1A had been 5-laned. Traffic is difficult today (off-season) and in wintertime it is much worse. In response to Commissioners’ inquiries, Mr. Mora commented on Mr. Oujevolk’s suggestions made earlier. He specified that he would hesitate to do a study on a complicated situation such as this by relying only on timing and stressed the need to use other criteria. He mentioned that he could look more closely at Mr. Oujevolk’s presentation and try to pick out things that could be used, but he believed it to be heavily geared toward these models. Commissioner Macht respectfully pointed out that the Commissioners represent 20,000 people and not a special interest group. He asked, in the interest of all our citizens, whether the Board had to make a decision at this meeting or defer it for 60 days. Commissioner Adams responded that they would miss the July window. rd Director Keating pointed out that staff has been looking at widening 43 Avenue rd because with all the new developments in that area, it is anticipated that they would use 43 Avenue and the computer models assign people to roadways based on logical reasons. rd Public Works Director Jim Davis pointed out that the schedule for widening 43 Avenue has slowed because the activity at the Commission meetings has discouraged people from cooperating in selling right-of-way. There is still some right-of-way that needs to be acquired; some are temporary which would be used for construction only. A delay of 30-60 days will not make a big difference in the construction time. If we delay much beyond that, it will be more difficult. Staff still has to deal with the utilities moving and sometimes it take months to gear up relocations. Our plans have to be finalized before we can have the utilities make changes. He encouraged the Commissioners to look at the Land Use Plan on the wall and commented that it resulted from many citizens’ input at the time it was adopted. On the map, he specified that the intensity is in the orange colored areas and the yellow areas are lower density. The corridors under discussion are within the orange on the map. Commissioner Macht commented that he was not suggesting that anything be done to slow traffic, but instead to bifurcate traffic to get motorists to choose alternate routes. He related July 20, 2004 27