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VICE CHAIRMAN WODTKE INITIATED A DISCUSSION ABOUT DEEP WATER <br />AND THE WETLANDS AREA MENTIONED IN THE REPORT. <br />MR. BEINDORF COMMENTED THAT THERE IS A SWAMP ON 1125 ACRES <br />IN THE AREA - THIS IS KEPT ON AS AN AMENITY IN THE DEVELOPMENT. <br />VICE CHAIRMAN WODTKE EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE WILDLIFE <br />AND IF SOME FLORIDA GOPHERS ARE FOUND IN THAT AREA, THEY MUST BE <br />RELOCATED. <br />LENGTHY DISCUSSION FOLLOWED ABOUT THE TRAFFIC. <br />VICE CHAIRMAN WODTKE RECOMMENDED HAVING A TRAFFIC SIGNAL <br />LOCATED AT RANCH ROAD AND ROUTE 60 IN LIEU OF HAVING IT AT THE <br />ENTRANCE OF THE DEVELOPMENT ON ROUTE 60. <br />ATTORNEY .JOHNSTON INTERJECTED THAT THEY ARE ALSO CONSIDERING <br />ILLUMINATION AT THEIR PROJECT. <br />FORREST SMITH, FIRE CHIEF, COMMENTED ON THE DESIRABILITY <br />OF HAVING ONE-HALF ACRE OF LAND DONATED AS CLOSE TO ROUTE 60 AS <br />POSSIBLE. HE FELT THE IDEAL LOCATION WOULD BE ON ROUTE 60 TO THE <br />EAST OF RANCH ROAD. <br />DISCUSSION ENSUED REGARDING THE ESTIMATED COST OF A FIRE <br />STATION OF $100,000, AND A COMBINATION SUPER -TANKER AND PUMPER FROM <br />$301 000 TO $50,000. <br />ATTORNEY HOULIHAN ADVISED THAT ONCE ALL THE INFORMATION HAS <br />BEEN DIGESTED, HIS OFFICE,IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, <br />WOULD ADD THE CONDITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN DECIDED TONIGHT BY THE BOARD, <br />AND THE DEVELOPMENT ORDER WILL BE PREPARED. <br />SAM OWENS, ATTORNEY FROM ORLANDO, FELT THE BOARD WAS ON <br />THE RIGHT TRACK, BUT REMINDED THEM OF THE SUNSHINE LAW, <br />VICE CHAIRMAN WODTKE k3SURED HIM THAT THEY WOULD MEET IN A <br />r <br />FORMAL MEETING, AND NOT VIOLATE THE SUNSHINE LAW. <br />LENGTHY NEGOTIATIONS TOOK PLACE AND IT WAS AGREED THAT <br />VILLAGE GREEN WOULD DONATE ONE-HALF ACRE FOR THE FIRE STATION AND A <br />CASH CONTRIBUTION OF $25,000; BUT IF THE SOUTH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT <br />DID NOT USE THE LAND, THEN THE CASH CONTRIBUTION WOULD BE $40,000. <br />11 <br />JUL 29 1981 7 PAGE 11 <br />