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(CLERK’S NOTE: This item was heard after 9.B.1. but is listed here for continuity with the agenda.) Community Development Director Bob Keating explained the Comprehensive Plan amendment process while displaying a PowerPoint outline. This process would be followed for each of the first 7 public hearings on today’s agenda. This particular amendment concerns land use, the other six are text amendments. This amendment is actually a land swap for land use designations for two different sites. He showed maps to identify the sites under consideration while he reviewed the memorandum. Staff has recommended adopting because they feel it is consistent with the Comp Plan, meets concurrency tests, is compatible with surrounding properties, and there are no important environmental impacts. The Chairman opened the public hearing. Bill Stewart, Attorney representing the applicant, advised this was the third public hearing. There was also a meeting with nearby property owners for which there was a pretty good turnout. He described the property as it exists and that it is restricted to health care service. He specified that there is no plan for access from the south. th Dorothy Burke , 3045 10 Parkway, appreciated previous opportunities to speak. She requested some kind of restriction on access to the subject property from the residential area if it is possible to do so. In response to Chairman Lowther, County Attorney Collins suggested this could do be done at site plan stage, and Commissioner Davis asked that it be made a bullet for site plan process. Paul Mace, 3035 Buckinghammock Trail, Buckinghammock Subdivision, was thankful for the buffer zone, however, he had no confidence that the buffer would remain and he would like to keep the buffer zone permanent. He was excited about the development of the September 13, 2005 16