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AUG 51981 7 PACE 60, <br />DISCUSSION FOLLOWED AS TO THE ADVISABILITY OF HAVING A MORE <br />COMPREHENSIVE ORDINANCE WHEREIN YOU COULD REGULATE METER SIZES, ETC., <br />AND CHAIRMAN LYONS SUGGESTED POSSIBLE CONSERVATION MEASURES TO BE <br />INCLUDED IN SUCH AN ORDINANCE, I.E., REQUIRING THE CAPPING OF UNCAPPED <br />FLOW WELLS, RECIRCULATION OF -WATER USED TO COOL AIR CONDITIONING UNITS, <br />AND REQUIRING CERTAIN TYPE WATER SAVING FIXTURES IN OUR BUILDING CODE. <br />THE CHAIRMAN POINTED OUT THAT PAGE I OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE IS <br />TECHNICALLY INCORRECT IN REFERRING TO THE RECHARGING OF THE FLORIDAN <br />AQUIFER SINCE WE ARE ONLY RECHARGING THE SHALLOW AQUIFER IN THIS COUNTY. <br />ATTORNEY HOULIHAN EXPLAINED THAT THE RESTRICTIONS IN THE <br />PROPOSED ORDINANCE ARE THE MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIED IN THE <br />ORDER OF THE ST. JOHN'S WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT. THE MODEL MUNICIPAL <br />ORDINANCE WHICH THEY PROVIDED IS QUITE EXTENSIVE AND INVOLVES MORA- <br />TORIUMS, SURCHARGES, ETC., HE FELT IF OUR USAGE IS IN COMPLIANCE, <br />AS IT SEEMS TO BE, WE DO NOT HAVE TO HAVE SUCH AN EXTENSIVE ORDINANCE <br />AT THIS TIME. <br />CAROLYN EGGERT, CHAIRMAN OF THE COUNTY PLANNING & ZONING <br />COMMISSION, WAS NOT AGAINST THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE, BUT REPORTED THAT <br />SHE, AS A PLANT NURSERY PERSON, HAS FOLLOWED THE VOLUNTARY PROGRAM <br />SINCE IT WAS PROPOSED, AND SHE WISHED TO POINT OUT SOME PROBLEMS THAT <br />AROSE IN COUNTIES SOUTH OF HERE WHEN THE WATER MANAGEMENT DISTRICT <br />PUT IN THEIR RESTRICTIONS. SHE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN ABOUT "MIST HOUSES" <br />AND "SHADE HOUSES," NOTING THAT ALTHOUGH PLANTS GROWN UNDER SHADE <br />HOUSES ARE NOT CONSIDERED INDOORS, TEMPERATURES IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS <br />SOMETIMES GO TO 980 AND 10801 AND THE PLANTS CANNOT SURVIVE AT SUCH <br />TEMPERATURES WITHOUT HAVING SOME MINUTES OF COOLING WATER. SHE RECOM- <br />MENDED THAT PLANTS GROWN BOTH IN MIST HOUSES AND SHADE HOUSES BE CON- <br />SIDERED INDOORS. SHE FURTHER RECOMMENDED THAT AN EXEMPTION BE GRANTED <br />TO WATER NEW LANDSCAPING FOR AT LEAST 30 DAYS. MRS. EGGERT EXPLAINED <br />THAT IRRIGATION PEOPLE CANNOT REPAIR THEIR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS IN THE <br />DARK AND SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO TURN ON THE WATER DURING THE DAYLIGHT <br />HOURS WHEN REPAIRING THESE SYSTEMS. <br />CONSIDERABLE DISCUSSION ENSUED AS TO WHETHER IT IS NECESSARY <br />TO ADOPT AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE AT THIS TIME RATHER THAN WORKING <br />TOWARDS HAVING A MORE COMPREHENSIVE ORDINANCE LATER. <br />46 <br />IT WAS SUGGESTED <br />