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� � r not be strongly involved but he wished to reiterate that it has been an on-going question that the County should become more aware of its own powers and its own ability to make decisions about these issues, and not rely on other agencies to do so. Mr. Rever further mentioned they were making an attempt to do just what he had stated, and become more involved. He noted the information that was read tonight was available and stated once more that his office had just received that letter. Mr. Rever again mentioned it was his departments intention to defer this site plan and had not planned to discuss it at this time. He. -said his department had no problem with hearing Mr. Henderson's clients presentation. Mr. Rever felt the developer had brought along their experts and due to his staff being limited and had no available experts immediately on staff; they chose to seek other opinions (he clarified, not theirs, not ours, but others). Mr. Rever also mentioned to the Board they had access to other experts and opinions, but they were not available that evening. Mr. Rever stated as the Director of the department there were still questions and he wasn't sure they would be answered•by his department or by the developers. He concurred the questions may have to be answered at a higher level and have the opportunity to come back to the County. He stated he did think there were questions asked that had not been fully addressed; and said he knew of questions brought up since the last meeting with Florida Land and didn't think either of them had time to address them for this particular meeting; and felt there would be on-going questions with this. Mr. Tippin said in the interest of fairness, he felt there were a few communications problems here. He said Mr. Henderson asked a question which Mr. Challacombe answered by his letter from the Fish and Game Commission and in all fairness, if,there was a rebuttal to that statement they would have to listen to it. The Chairman commented it seemed everything was dangling and she would be quite willing to hear anything Florida Land wished to say. Mr. Thomas said he certainly wanted to respond to the technical questions raised, as much as the Board wished to hear about it. He felt it would be best to pursue the general information first and then come back to his more technical portion after that. Mr. Thomas then 'AN 27 1982 -23- Enol( 8 RUM ®J