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HAVE HEARD ONLY THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND NOT ONE OUNCE OF EVIDENCE. <br />HE URGED THE BOARD TO ADOPT THE PLAN AS PRESENTED OR ADOPT IT WITH <br />CHANGES AND FULFILL THE DUTIES THEY WERE ELECTED TO CARRY OUT, <br />ED SCHLITT INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT HE IS A REALTOR, PAST <br />MEMBER OF THE COUNTY LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND A FORMER <br />CHAIRMAN OF THE EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL, AND, IN <br />ADDITION, HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THIS COUNTY AND COULD REMEMBER <br />WHEN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERSE WAS INVOLVED IN A BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM <br />WHICH MADE THIS COUNTY A SPECIAL PLACE TO LIVE. MR. SCHLITT FELT <br />THIS COUNTY OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR <br />KEEPING THIS COUNTY THE SPECIAL PLACE IT IS AND HE ALSO PAID TRIBUTE <br />TO PLANNING AND ZONING AND COMMENTED THAT HE ATTENDED MANY OF THEIR <br />MEETINGS WHERE EVERYONE WHO WISHED TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES HAD AN <br />OPPORTUNITY TO DO S0, THOUGH IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THERE NEVER <br />COULD BE A PLAN EVERYONE WOULD AGREE WITH COMPLETELY, HE BELIEVED <br />A CONSCIOUS EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE. MR. SCHLITT NOTED THAT, FOR <br />INSTANCE, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ROUTE 60, THERE IS A COMMERCIAL AREA <br />BEING CHANGED TO MULTIPLE, WHICH HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE REMAIN <br />COMMERCIAL BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE HIS OFFICE IS, BUT IF IT DOES <br />NOT GO THAT WAY, HE IS WILLING TO LIVE WITH IT. HE EMPHASIZED <br />THAT A GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE HAS GONE INTO THIS PLAN. <br />NEIL SHEELY OF OCEAN DRIVE YIELDED HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK <br />TO TOM SCHLITT REPRESENTING THE VERO BEACH .JAYCEES. <br />TOM SCHLITT INFORMED THE COMMISSION THAT THE .JAYCEES AT THEIR <br />LAST MEETING, HAD A ONE HOUR DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTY, <br />THIS ORGANIZATION, BY AND LARGE, IS MADE UP OF YOUNG MEN WHO WANT <br />TO HAVE A FUTURE IN THIS COUNTY. HE STATED THAT THEY, AS A YOUNG <br />MAN S SERVICE CLUB, FEEL THAT THIS PLAN HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE <br />BEST INTERESTS OF ALL IN THE COUNTY AND THEY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION <br />TO ENDORSE THE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN. HE BELIEVED THERE ARE SOME <br />PEOPLE HERE WHO OBVIOUSLY WOULD LIKE TO LIMIT THE COUNTY TO ZERO <br />GROWTH, <br />THE CHAIRMAN READ THE CARD OF ATTORNEY STEVE HENDERSON AND <br />NOTED THAT HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING. <br />THE CHAIRMAN CALLED CHARLES GARRIS, WHO DID NOT ANSWER. <br />SEP 1 1981 BOX 47 PAGE 31 <br />