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AUG 1 <br />19 1 a6ox 47 PAGE 199. � 7 <br />DETERMINE THAT ALL THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS NECESSARY, SUCH AS ROADS, <br />WATER SUPPLIES, POLICE AND FIRE PROTECTION, ETC., WOULD BE READILY <br />AVAILABLE AND AFFORDABLE TO SUPPLY ALL FACETS OF INCREASED POPULATION, <br />AND, IN CONCLUSION, URGED A REFERENDUM BE HELD. <br />JOHN CALMES SPOKE IN SUPPORT OF THE PROPOSED PLAN REPRESENTING <br />THE ASSOCIATION OF ARCHITECTS. HE POINTED OUT THAT THE PLAN HAS BEEN <br />PREPARED BY PROFESSIONALS TRAINED IN THE AREA IN WHICH THEY ARE ENDEAVOR- <br />ING. AS PROFESSIONALS THEMSELVES, THE ARCHITECTS CAN APPRECIATE THE <br />AMOUNT OF TIME AND STUDY THAT HAS BEEN PUT INTO THIS PLAN, AND THEY <br />QUESTION WHETHER THERE IS EXPERTISE OF THIS SORT IN THE PLAN PRESENTED <br />BY THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION. ISR. CALMES POINTED OUT THAT THE <br />CIVIC ASSOCIATION MAXIMUM DENSITY FIGURE OF 600,000 REPRESENTS THE <br />TOTAL LAND AREA OF THE COUNTY BEING DEVELOPED TO ITS MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE <br />DENSITY. HE CONTINUED THAT THE COUNTY'S PROPOSED PLAN IS MORE CONSERVA- <br />TIVE THAN THE PRESENT LAND USE PLAN; THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS WORKSHOPS <br />TO RECEIVE INPUT FROM THE CITIZENRY; AND HE BELIEVED IT IS SOMEWHAT OF <br />A COMPROMISE TO SATISFY ALL FACETS OF OUR COUNTY. MR. CALMES NOTED <br />THAT, ALTHOUGH THE ARCHITECTS OF THE COUNTY FEEL THERE ARE AREAS IN <br />THE PLAN THAT PROBABLY NEED SOME FURTHER STUDY, PARTICULARLY IN REGARD <br />TO CONSIDERATION OF COMMERCIAL AREA, THEY SUPPORT THE PRESENT PLAN AS <br />IT IS BEING PROPOSED. <br />MARVIN CARTER WAS CALLED AND YIELDED HIS PLACE TO ATTORNEY <br />STEVE HENDERSON. <br />ATTORNEY HENDERSON STATED THAT HE WAS NOT PRESENT TO CRITICIZE <br />THE PLAN AS A WHOLE BUT TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC PROPERTIES OWNED BY TWO <br />CLIENTS REPRESENTED BY BOTH HIMSELF AND MR. CARTER. THE FIRST PIECE <br />IS PROPERTY OWNED BY MR. & MRS. CLARENCE CONDE ON U.S. I SOUTH OF <br />WABASSO WHICH IS PRESENTLY ZONED COMMERCIAL AND HAS EXISTING COMMERCIAL <br />USES. THE CONDES ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT OF THE LD -2 <br />CATEGORY ON THEIR PROPERTY. ATTORNEY HENDERSON REALIZED THAT THE PLAN <br />CONTEMPLATES COMMERCIAL NODULES, BUT FELT CONSIDERATION MUST BE GIVEN <br />TO AREAS WHERE EXISTING COMMERCIAL USES ARE LOCATED SO THAT PEOPLE <br />ARE NOT PUT IN A NON -CONFORMING USE CATEGORY WHERE THEY CAN T EXPAND <br />OR REBUILD. <br />lu <br />