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COMMISSIONER WODTKE INQUIRED ABOUT ORDINANCE 74-10 WHICH RELATES TO DUNE PROTECTION, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS EXPLAINED THAT THIS ORDINANCE WAS PASSED TO PUT IN A SAFEGUARD PRIOR TO ESTABLISHMENT OF OUR COASTAL CONSTRUCTION SETBACK LINE. A TEMPORARY 50' SETBACK LINE WAS ESTABLISHED AT THAT TIME; NOW IT IS 100'. COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK NOTED THAT THE PROBLEM MAINLY INVOLVES THE CROSSING OVER THE DUNES, AND CHAIRMAN LYONS COMMENTED THAT IT ALSO DISTURBS THE TURTLE NESTING. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER ASKED IF IT WOULD REQUIRE A NEW ORDINANCE TO KEEP DUNE BUGGIES OFF THE BEACH. ATTORNEY COLLINS REPORTED THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION IS GIVEN THE AUTHORITY TO CONTROL THIS SITUATION BY A SPECIAL ACT PASSED IN THE 1950'S, BUT HE FELT WE PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE THERE IS QUITE A BIT OF PUBLIC INTEREST. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER AGREED THAT WE SHOULD HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING IN ORDER TO GET INPUT FROM BOTH SIDES. DISCUSSION THEN AROSE AS TO WHETHER TO PREPARE A RESOLUTION PRIOR TO OR AFTER THE HEARING. ATTORNEY COLLINS FAVORED HAVING THE HEARING FIRST, BUT CHAIRMAN LYONS BELIEVED WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE GOING TO BE ARGUING ABOUT. IT WAS NOTED THAT IT WOULD BE NECESSARY TO PERMIT EMERGENCY VEHICLES ACCESS TO THE BEACH AND ALSO THAT FISHER- MEN WOULD NEED A WAY TO GET THEIR BOATS IN AND OUT OF THE OCEAN. COMMISSIONER WODTKE FELT THERE PROBABLY SHOULD BE SOME SPECIAL CONSIDERATION IN REGARD TO THE AREA NEAR SEBASTIAN INLET. HE NOTED THAT IF WE HAVE A RESOLUTION WHICH JUST TOTALLY RESTRICTS VEHICULAR TRAFFIC, WE WILL GET A LOT OF INPUT AND WE ALWAYS CAN PULL BACK A LITTLE. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BIRD, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED ADVERTISING A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PROHIBIT VEHICULAR TRAFFIC ON THE BEACHES. NOV 191980 67 j