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rp- DEC 171980 mox 45 Pw* 4,74 COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY. PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL - COLONIAL HEIGHTS SSD ADMINISTRATOR NELSON PASSED OUT PLATS OF COLONIAL HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION TO THE BOARD AND REPORTED THAT THIS HAS BEEN REVIEWED BY THE TECHNICAL REVIEW COMMITTEE AND FOUND ACCEPTABLE. HE NOTED IT WOULD BE DESIRABLE TO GET A COMMITMENT BY THE DEVELOPER TO PLACE LOW MAINTENANCE SHRUBBERY IN THE CUL DE SAC AREAS, ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT FORCE HIM TO DO THIS. CHAIRMAN LYONS ASKED THAT THE RECORD SHOW THAT MR. ZORC, DEVELOPER OF COLONIAL HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, HAS COMMITTED HIMSELF TO THE LOW MAINTENANCE SHRUBBERY AS SUGGESTED. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, TO GRANT TENTATIVE APPROVAL OF COLONIAL HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION WITH THE STIPULATION REGARDING THE LOW MAINTENANCE SHRUBBERY IN THE CUL DE SAC AREAS. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER ASKED SEVERAL QUESTIONS REGARDING THE PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ACTUAL REVIEW OF THESE PLATS, THE EVENTUAL ACCEPTANCE OF THESE ROADS FOR MAINTENANCE BY THE COUNTY, AND THE STEPS THE OWNER NEXT TAKES AFTER THE PLAT IS APPROVED, DISCUSSION ENSUED ABOUT THE 15' RIGHT-OF-WAY ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SUBDIVISION AND WHETHER IT IS A HALF ROAD SITUATION. PLANNING DIRECTOR REVER EXPLAINED THAT THERE WAS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF CONTROVERSY OVER ADEQUATE BUFFERING BETWEEN COLONIAL HEIGHTS AND COLONIAL TERRACE AND INTERCONNECTION OF ROADS; THE STAFF FELT THE 15' RIGHT-OF-WAY NEVER WOULD BE USED AND DID NOT GET INTO THE QUESTION OF ADDING ADDITIONAL RIGHT-OF-WAY AND GETTING INTO A CONTROVERSY ABOUT A PUBLIC ROAD 'BORDERING ON TWO SUBDIVISIONS. IT WAS NOTED THAT ACCESS FROM 8TH STREET, WHICH THEY FELT WAS ESSENTIAL, FLOWS FROM OLD DIXIE HIGHWAY. COMMISSIONER BIRD BELIEVED THAT THE PLANNING & ZONING COM- MISSION HAD CONTEMPLATED MORE BUFFERING THAN JUST THE 15' BETWEEN THE li� so _I