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m <br />AND SHE DID NOT NOW UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE CAN BE ALLOWED TO PROFIT <br />BY BENDING THE RULES AT SOMEONE ELSE'S EXPENSE. MRS. DETKO WAS <br />ASKED IF THERE IS AN EASEMENT TO THE OCEAN FROM THIS PROPERTY, AND <br />SHE STATED THAT IT IS BEING CONTESTED. <br />MR. RICHARDSON STATED THAT HE REALIZED THAT IF THE DEVELOPER <br />DOES PUT IN A 50' ROAD AND ABIDE BY THE ORDINANCE, HE CAN SUBDIVIDE, <br />BUT NOTED THAT THE PRESENT ISSUE IS GRANTING A VARIANCE, <br />CHAIRMAN LYONS COMMENTED THAT HE PERSONALLY WOULD VOTE <br />AGAINST A VARIANCE BECAUSE HE DID NOT BELIEVE IT MEETS THE REQUIRE- <br />MENTS, BUT HE DID NOT BELIEVE THIS WOULD PRECLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF <br />THIS PROPERTY. <br />ATTORNEY RODDENBERRY SPOKE IN REBUTTAL TO THE VARIOUS <br />ARGUMENTS PRESENTED AGAINST THE GRANTING OF THE VARIANCE, NOTING THAT <br />THE DEVELOPER IS AWARE OF THE BEAUTIFUL TREES ON THE HOPWOOD PROPERTY <br />AND WOULD BE VERY AMENABLE TO WORKING WITH THEM, <br />DR. FLOOD AS A RESIDENT OF SMUGGLER'S COVE EXPRESSED HIS <br />CONCERN ABOUT HEALTH AND, DID NOT FEEL ANY MORE HOMES SHOULD BE ALLOWED <br />INTO THIS AREA UNTIL THEY CAN PROVE THE WATER TABLE WILL SUPPORT THEM. <br />ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER FLETCHER, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER <br />BIRD, THE BOARD BY A 4 TO 0 VOTE, COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK BEING ABSENT <br />FROM THE MEETING, DENIED THE REQUEST FOR THE VARIANCE APPLIED FOR BY <br />SALT AIR COVE SUBDIVISION, <br />THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THEREUPON RECESSED AT <br />12:40 O'CLOCK P.M. FOR LUNCH AND RECONVENED AT 2:00 O'CLOCK WITH ALL <br />MEMBERS PRESENT, COMMISSIONER SCURLOCK HAVING RETURNED TO THE MEETING, <br />'11EETING OF SOUTH COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT <br />C THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RECESSED AT 2:05 P.M, <br />IN ORDER THAT THE DISTRICT BOARD OF FIRE COMMISSIONERS OF THE SOUTH <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT MIGHT CONVENE. THOSE MINUTES ARE <br />BEING PREPARED SEPARATELY. <br />31 <br />efl�t 7 PAct 498 <br />