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AND THE CONSULTANTS HIRED BY THEM, AND EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT THIS <br />COMMISSION, WHICH THE VOTERS FOUND MOST QUALIFIED TO RUN OUR COUNTY, <br />WILL PROVIDE FOR ALL THE PEOPLE IN OUR COUNTY. - <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS CALLED FOR A TEN MINUTE RECESS AT 9:00 P.M. <br />THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RECONVENED AT 9:10 P.M. <br />WITH THE SAME MEMBERS PRESENT. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED JANET SPRINGER AND WAS INFORMED THAT SHE <br />HAD LEFT THE MEETING. <br />WILLIAM KOOLAGE OF 26TH AVENUE STATED THAT HE MOVED TO THIS <br />COUNTY TEN YEARS AGO AND HAS SEEN LIFE HERE BEGINNING TO DETERIORATE. <br />HE EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT DENSITIES AND WATER PROBLEMS AND DID NOT <br />BELIEVE WE HAVE THE IN-DEPTH STUDIES TO ASSURE WE ARE GOING TO HAVE <br />THE WATER WE NEED, MR. KOOLAGE FELT THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY SNOULD <br />HAVE SOME SAY AS TO WHAT THIS COUNTY LOOKS LIKE, AND AS TO PROVIDING <br />HOUSING FOR WORKERS, HE DID NOT BELIEVE THIS PLAN WILL BRING THE COST <br />LEVEL OF HOUSING DOWN. MR. KOOLAGE SUPPORTED THE VERO BEACH CIVIC <br />ASSOCIATION DENSITY PLAN AND DID NOT HOLD WITH THE POPULATION FORECAST <br />BY THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA. HE URGED THAT A REFERENDUM BE HELD, <br />WILLIAM BRENGLE OF -THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS <br />BROUGHT UP THE 600,000 PROJECTED POPULATION FIGURE ENDORSED BY THE <br />CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND ASKED IF THE PLAN THE COUNTY COMMISSION IS ES- <br />POUSING WERE WORKED TO ITS MAXIMUM, WHAT WOULD THEN BE THE MAXIMUM <br />POPULATION THAT PLAN WOULD PUT IN THIS COUNTY, <br />MR. REVER ANSWERED THAT IF IT WERE WORKED OUT ACCORDING TO <br />THE RATIONALE USED BY THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION, IT WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY <br />6001 000, <br />MR. BRENGLE NOTED THAT RETIRED PERSONS MAKE UP ALMOST 30% OF <br />THE POPULATION OF FLORIDA; THEY PAY TAXES AND ARE CUSTOMERS OF A MAJORITY <br />OF THE BUSINESS PEOPLE, HE REPORTED THAT AT THEIR LAST GENERAL MEETING <br />HELD AUGUST 14TH, BY A FORMAL VOTE THEY DECLARED THAT THE CURSORY <br />STUDIES MADE SO FAR BY THE COUNTY COMMISSION HAVE FAILED TO PRODUCE A <br />PLAN EITHER FEASIBLE OR PRACTICAL AND POINTED OUT THAT THIS PLAN HAS <br />BEEN REJECTED BY THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, THE PELICAN ISLAND <br />AUDUBON SOCIETY, AND VARIOUS OTHER CIVIC AND PROPERTY OWNER GROUPS. <br />THE A.A.R.P. RECOMMENDED THE PROPER IN-DEPTH STUDIES BE MADE TO <br />AUG 181981 15 4 7 PACE 198 <br />