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s AQUIFER BY SEVERAL HUNDRED FEET OF CLAY; S0, THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT SHOULD NOT HAVE ANY MEASURABLE AFFECT ON ANY SHALLOW WELLS IN THE AREA. HE BELIEVED MULTI -FAMILY DEVELOPMENT WITH LARGE OPEN SPACES WOULD ACTUALLY HELP THE SHALLOW AQUIFER AND NOT HARM IT. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BIRD, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY CLOSED THE PUBLIC HEARING. COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK DID SEE SOME MERIT IN MULTI -FAMILY AS OPPOSED TO SINGLE FAMILY AND DID BELIEVE THERE IS SOME ROOM FOR HIGHER DENSITIES ON THE OCEANSIDE, BUT FELT THE PROBLEM IS THAT IN THE NORTH BEACH AREA, WE ARE DEALING WITH A MULTITUDE OF DEVELOPERS, HE CONTINUED THAT HE BELIEVED THE BARRIER ISLAND IN THE NORTH SHOULD BE DEVELOPED AT A DENSITY NOT TO EXCEED 4 UNITS PER ACRE AND STATED HE WOULD HAVE NO OBJECTION TO MIXING DENSITIES WITHIN THAT OVERALL FIGURE. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER STATED THE BASIC ARGUMENT IS SINGLE FAMILY OR MULTI -FAMILY, AND ALTHOUGH THE BARRIER ISLAND STUDY INDICATED MULTI -FAMILY GENERATED LESS TRAFFIC, HE BELIEVED THEY CONSUME TWO TO THREE TIMES AS MUCH WATER. HE WAS OF THE OPINION THAT THERE ALREADY IS AMPLE MULTI -FAMILY HOUSING IN THE COUNTY, AND WHILE HE DID NOT BELIEVE WE COULD STOP GROWTH, WE MUST CONTROL DENSITY. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER FELT TALKING ABOUT 6.2 UNITS AND 6 UNITS, ETC., IS MERELY PLAYING A "WORD GAME /I WITH NUMBERS. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER FLETCHER TO DENY THE REQUEST FOR REZONING. MOTION DIED FOR LACK OF A SECOND. COMMISSIONER WODTKE BELIEVED THAT CLUSTER DEVELOPMENT WOULD USE FAR LESS UTILITIES THAN SINGLE FAMILY AND GENERATE LESS TRAFFIC. HE BELIEVED THERE IS A TREMENDOUS NEED FOR THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT AND WAS VERY -MUCH IN SUPPORT OF THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT EAST OF STATE ROAD AIA RATHER THAN ON THE RIVERSIDE. COMMISSIONER BIRD CONCURRED WITH COMMISSIONER WODTKE. KEEPING IN MIND THE FRAGILE NATURE OF THAT STRIP, COMMISSIONER BIRD