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GIVEN TO THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE ENTIRE TRACT AS WELL AS THE <br />SURROUNDING MOBILE HOME PROPERTIES. <br />COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK NOTED THAT THE BOARD HAS A <br />RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT OUR COMMUNITY, AND WHILE MANY DESIRABLE <br />THINGS HAVE BEEN PROPOSED, WE HAVE NO VEHICLE AVAILABLE TO ASSURE <br />THAT THEY WILL HAPPEN. <br />ATTORNEY COLLINS POINTED OUT THAT WE ARE NOT HERE FOR <br />APPROVAL OF THE SITE PLAN, BUT TO CONSIDER A REZONING ISSUE, AND <br />ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO ENFORCEABLE WAY OF SUBSEQUENTLY REQUIRING THE <br />DEVELOPER TO LIVE UP TO HIS REPRESENTATIONS, THAT IS NOT THE ISSUE; <br />THE ISSUE IS WHETHER THE LAND SHOULD BE USED FOR THAT PARTICULAR <br />PURPOSE OR NOT. <br />COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK THEN BELIEVED THE POINT IS TO <br />DETERMINE WHETHER OR NOT IT IS ECONOMICAL TO KEEP THIS IN CITRUS <br />AND STATED THAT HE DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT INFORMATION RE SOIL <br />ANALYSIS, ETC., TO REACH A DECISION. <br />ATTORNEY HERZOG ARGUED THAT THE ECONOMIC VIABILITY OF <br />AGRICULTURE IS NOT THE DETERMINING ISSUE WITH RESPECT TO ZONING; <br />THE PRIMARY CONCERN IS WHETHER A THREAT TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH, <br />WELFARE AND SAFETY HAS BEEN DEMONSTRATED. HE FELT THE DRI BINDING <br />LETTER APPLIES TO THE LOCAL AREA AS WELL AS THE REGIONAL AREA AND <br />EMPHASIZED THAT THEY HAVE MADE REPRESENTATIONS AS TO THEIR PROPOSED <br />DEVELO-PMENT WITH THE INTENT THAT THIS WILL BE PUT IN THE RECORD <br />AND THEY WILL BE BOUND.AS TIGHTLY AS POSSIBLE. <br />COMMISSIONER FLETCHER QUESTIONED THE FIGURE OF 150,000 <br />GALLONS PER DAY USED TO DETERMINE THE IMPACT ON -THE POTABLE WATER <br />.DEMAND, WHICH HE FELT WOULD FIGURE OUT TO WAY BELOW -AVERAGE -USE <br />IN THE -COUNTY BASED -ON Z.5 PEOPLE PER UNIT.. HE ALSO-WISHED*TO <br />KNOW IF FIRE FLOW WERE FIGURED INTO THE SYSTEM. <br />.JAMES BEINDORF, ENGINEER FOR THE PROJECT, STATED THAT THE <br />USE PER UNIT AND PER INDIVIDUAL FOR MOBILE HOME DEVELOPMENTS SUCH AS <br />THE ONE PROPOSED, WHERE THE OCCUPANTS ARE ELDERLY AND THERE ARE NO <br />CHILDREN, IS LESS -THAN THE NORM, AND THEY HAD FIGURED IN TERMS OF <br />1.8 PER UNIT. HE -CONTINUED THAT THEY JUST SHOWED AVERAGE DAILY <br />USAGE AND DID NOT DEAL WITH FIRE FLOW, BUT POINTED OUT THAT THEY <br />MUST OBTAIN ALL THE APPROPRIATE PERMITS AND AT THAT TIME WILL HAVE <br />TO GO INTO THE SPECIFICS OF FIRE DEMAND AND PEAK DEMAND.. <br />.MAY 61981.. <br />51 <br />BOOK 'D : PACE. j4 <br />Ej <br />