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