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SEP 141981 Box 47 PArE447 <br />FRANK L. ZORC, 20TH AVENUE, CAME BEFORE THE BOARD AND <br />EXPRESSED CONCERN WHETHER THE BOULEVARD EXTENSION WAS REALLY JUSTIFIED; <br />HE COULD SHOW THE BOARD ANOTHER ROUTE WHICH WOULD REQUIRE ONLY TWO <br />BLOCKS OF EXTENSION► HE THEN REFERRED TO THE GAS TAX DOLLARS THAT <br />WOULD BE USED FOR THE PROJECT AND WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL <br />PROBLEMS AND STATED THERE WAS SERIOUS DOUBT THAT THE ROAD WAS NEEDED <br />AT ALL. MR. ZORC STATED THAT THE ENGINEERING WAS FAR FROM COMPLETE <br />FOR THE PROJECT, AND JUST BECAUSE THE EXTENSION WAS DECIDED ON YEARS <br />AGO DID NOT MEAN THAT IT HAD TO BE DONE, AS PEOPLE DO CHANGE THEIR <br />MINDS. HE FELT THE FIRST PRIORITY SHOULD BE 16TH STREET. <br />DR. PAUL W► TAYLOR, JR. PASSED HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK <br />WHEN HIS NAME WAS CALLED. <br />GLENN W. LEGWEN ALSO PASSED UP HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK. <br />ANN DEWHURST DID NOT RESPOND WHEN HER NAME WAS CALLED-. <br />DR. HERBERT W. KALE, 35 1sT COURT SW, APPROACHED THE BOARD <br />MEMBERS AND MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT: <br />Statement presented to j o, _n ': C i ;o <br />Commission Advisory IIearin� on the proposed Indian Rivcr- <br />vard E.titension,- Sc^teiiiber 14. 1'- 81 <br />Dr. herbert 1%*. Kale II <br />11y name is Herbert W. Ka 1e II, I lives at 3D ist Court <br />Vero'Beach. 1 €gym a vertebrate k cologist by training alai expt <br />ierce, and am currently Vice President for Ornithological <br />i.ox the Florida Audubon Societe. Tonight, I ars speakin as } <br />vate individual and my comments Dere are ray awn. I requ-st <<;3 <br />they be made a part of the record of tl:is he:,rin,;. <br />Up until the mill 194Us an;' early 1950s, e::Le,isive natural ..i.a, <br />lands existed all along the Indian River. lire tide flowcnl3 i.. <: <br />cut of these marshes, dail-y at some elevations, monthly at. oti-.- i <br />and only several times a hoar at higher eleva::ions, but the c_1 ,- <br />nectlon betwoen the marslh inclS an 4 the lniiian Nive: reMI?]'O ; 1 <br />find opon. t i2,1, u].1lu1,ife lr,.,.t' extremely a1,' � <br />pan -1 so were salt M&I'Sll mo:-(juitoes. Be-inninc, in the 194(JS Y- <br />ti.nuing into the 1960s hun renis of acres of marshland in lndie:i :.i., - <br />er County were dreuged and i.illed to create waterfront hone:.=i.t,�,! <br />The last massive dredge and :ill development was that of the 1•-oo - <br />i ngs Development in the t.c i 96',,. <br />Also in the late 1950s aric! early 1960s almost all of the- <br />ing natural marshlands were: impounded by construction of cjii..:; L• - <br />tween the river an;', the mars.:;. These dikes w(,re built with r: 0, <br />funds by the 1-iosquitc-) Control District on both :,alalic an,,,. pri,::t <br />lands with the permissio:1 01 the landoi�-rer. i'tri; procc.iuie <br />moscuito control was extre-Rcly cuccessiD , resuiting in :_ t'_> <br />--tion in mosquito popul-=t ions, nn;; a sizeaL,lr reductio -i iTl I <br />annual costs of mosquito :;cntrol. <br />
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