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J U L 2 0 1983 5. PAGE: shortsighted to acquire the right-of-way easement for a powerline without considering the eventuality of having a road built parallel to it. The property owners have suggested that they donate the additional right-of-way from the point that the route turns and goes north to Barber Ave., south of the Medical Center. The property owners have requested that the consideration given include: 1) an appraisal that they could use as a tax deduction, and 2) that in cases where the route crosses citrus groves, they be permitted to lease the right-of-way back for $1.00 a year so that they could continue to cultivate the land until such time as the County actually needed the right-of-way for road purposes. The City would have to build a temporary route along this route for a servicing line, as well as providing ingress and egress to their property. However, each property owner would have a barricade erected so that the general public would operate over the construction road. The only other thing the City would want from the County would be some sort of arrangement in which they would have the primary rights to the area where the powerline is constructed. In ether words, they do not want to be there under sufferance. Commissioner Scurlock thought that trying to move the route away from the river and the mangroves was desirable, but felt that the County should not be committed into doing anything in the near future, indeed, if ever. Mr. Lloyd stated they would be glad to assist in anyway they can; however, theydo have to move forward rather rapidly on the acquisition of the rights-of-way on the northern section of the route. Chairman Bird stated that he found it very difficult to decide this morning what ultimate route Indian River Boulevard should take someday in the future, if ever. He 34