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A LITTLE COMMON SENSE AND CAN MAKE A GOOD DECISION. <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS CALLED THE LAST SPEAKER OF THE EVENING - <br />ROGER L. COOPER. <br />ROGER COOPER REPORTED THAT HE REPRESENTS THE ORCHID ISLAND <br />HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION; THEY DID NOT INTEND TO ADDRESS THE PLAN <br />AS AN ENTITY, BUT HAD SOME ISSUES OF GRAVE CONCERN, MR. COOPER <br />THEN READ A LETTER SETTING OUT THE UNANIMOUS FEELING OF THE ORCHID <br />ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, WHICH LETTER OBJECTED VERY <br />STRONGLY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARSH ISLAND LOCATED NORTH OF THE <br />CAUSEWAY ACROSS FROM ORCHID ISLAND, INTO A MARINA ORIENTED CONDO- <br />MINIUM PROJECT AS PROPOSED BY DEVELOPER DOYLE ROGERS. THEY STATED <br />THAT THE MOST ALARMING ASPECT OF THE PROPOSAL IS THE WATER REQUIRE- <br />MENT SINCE ORCHID ISLAND RESIDENTS ARE CURRENTLY DEPENDENT ON DEEP <br />WELLS WHICH ARE ALREADY THREATENED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DRAWDOWN <br />BY <br />RIVERBEND, A <br />VAST <br />MULTIPLE <br />UNIT PROJECT ON <br />THE NORTH <br />BEACH ACROSS <br />THE <br />RIVER FROM <br />THEM. <br />SEWAGE <br />WAS ANOTHER MAJOR <br />CONCERN, <br />AND IT WAS <br />NOTED THAT THE TRAFFIC GENERATED WOULD NECESSITATE A TRAFFIC LIGHT <br />WHICH WOULD CREATE A CHOKE POINT, AN EXTREMELY UNDESIRABLE SITUATION <br />ON THE ONLY ACCESS FROM U.S. 1 TO AIA BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND VERO <br />BEACH. THE ORCHID ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION FURTHER FELT <br />THAT A MULTIPLE UNIT CONDOMINIUM PROJECT IN THIS AREA WOULD DEPRECIATE <br />PROPERTY VALUES, INVALIDATE THE $12,500 STUDY RELATING TO TRAFFIC <br />AND HURRICANE EVALUATION, AND LASTLY, VIOLATE THE BASIC NODAL <br />CONCEPT OF THE C.L.U.P. BY THE ENCROACHMENT OF A MULTIPLE UNIT <br />PROJECT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SPARSELY POPULATED SINGLE UNIT NODE. <br />THEIR SECOND MAJOR CONCERN WAS THE APPEAL BY ATTORNEY HENDERSON <br />REPRESENTING MRS. CLARA DALES AGAINST THE DESIGNATION OF THE SOUTH- <br />ERN PORTION OF PINE ISLAND AS ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE, WHICH HE <br />ALLEGED IMPLIED THE PROPERTY WAS NOT DEVELOPABLE AND IMPEDED ITS <br />SALE, MR. COOPER DESCRIBED THIS LAND AS PRISTINE JUNGLE INHABITED <br />WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WILDLIFE AND CONTAINING AREAS THAT ARE LOW <br />AND FLOOD PRONE AND ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY MANGROVES. IN ADDITION, <br />IT HAS EXTREMELY LIMITED ACCESS, THE ASSOCIATION FELT THERE IS <br />POSSIBLY POTENTIAL FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON A -LIMITED SCALE, <br />BUT ANYTHING MORE WOULD <br />CREATE THE SAME PROBLEMS CITED <br />IN THEIR <br />SEP 1 1991 <br />toe <br />47 'kr,€ <br />3 r 6 <br />-?7- <br />