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JUL 191 _ �dOK 6 PArE 792-,, DEVELOPMENT, THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE SEWER, WATER, TRAFFIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS IN THOSE AREAS AND HE FELT THE LAND CARRYING CAPACITY COULD BEST BE ADDRESSED IF THERE WAS A MORATORIUM FOR A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME TO ALLOW FOR THE ADOPTION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN; THEY THEN WOULD HAVE SPECIFIC GUIDANCE. COMMISSIONER WODTKE INQUIRED WHAT REASON THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT HAD TO SINGLE OUT THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA IN THE COUNTY. MR. REVER EXPLAINED HE BELIEVED THE BOARD CONSIDERED THERE WAS AN EMERGENCY, BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF LARGE SCALE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE AREA, HE AGREED THAT THERE WERE OTHER AREAS THAT NEEDED ATTENTION BUT NOT IN THE MAGNITUDE OF THIS PARTICULAR AREA BEING DISCUSSED THIS EVENING. ATTORNEY COLLINS THEN READ THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF ALL SITE PLANS FOR THE AREA. DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT THE MEMO FROM MR. REVER DATED 27, 1981 THAT WAS REFERRED TO IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE. IT WAS DETERMINED THAT SEVERAL FIGURES WERE INCORRECT. THE CHAIRMAN ASKED IF THERE WAS ANYONE PRESENT WHO WISHED TO BE HEARD. WILLIAM PRINGLE, OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS, APPROACHED THE BOARD AND STATED THAT HE WAS PRESENT TO NEITHER CONDEMN OR CONDONE, BUT POSSIBLY TO LEND A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE. IN SPEAKING TO A GREAT DEAL OF PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT THEY LIKED ABOUT VERO BEACH, THEY ALL MENTIONED THE BEAUTIFUL AND NATURAL BEACHES, HE REPORTED. MR. PRINGLE WENT ON TO TALK ABOUT THE INFLUX OF PEOPLE TO THE TOWNS JUST SOUTH OF VERO BEACH AND WAS CONCERNED THAT THE COUNTY HAS REACHED A POINT IN ITS HISTORY WHERE THERE WILL BE GROWTH, BUT IT MUST BE CONTROLLED. HE FELT THAT THE BOARD WAS RIGHT TO HAVE A MORATORIUM AT THIS TIME. HE INQUIRED IF DEVELOPERS HAVE TO PAY FOR THE NEW SEWER AND WATER MAINS FOR THE DEVELOPMENTS. � \ J