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N 0 V 211984 <br />BooF:CF' <br />undertake a traffic study, which we have a consultant working on <br />right now. This study could change these numbers completely or <br />it might say that the numbers are okay, but there are improve- <br />ments that could be made to increase the capacity of the system <br />and, therefore, provide for more development. On the north bar- <br />rier island there are about 2,000 undeveloped buildable acres - <br />1500 in the county and about 430 in the Town of Orchid - and Mr. <br />Keating believed it would be possible to add another 4,600 trips <br />per day. He stated that if the north barrier island were to be <br />developed at the Comprehensive Plan density, we would be talking <br />about 58,000 trips, and with an estimated capacity of 19,000, the <br />Wabasso Bridge would be overburdened at about three times its <br />capacity. <br />Mr. Keating then went on to discuss in detail proposed <br />development, committed development, and development actually <br />under construction, in both the south and north barrier island <br />areas, pointing out that the status of some of these developments <br />is unclear, i.e., site plans may have expired; there is a <br />question of whether a good faith effort has been made to maintain <br />construction, etc. All this represents trips which possibly <br />could be added back in. <br />Commissioner Bird asked where the figures used by the Com- <br />mittee came from, and Mr. Keating reported that they came from a <br />traffic study done in the St. Lucie County area and it was <br />recognized they may not be standard in the entire study area. He <br />noted that all the local municipalities have agreed to the <br />traffic study and are working with us. <br />Director Keating continued that even though there is excess <br />capacity in the Traffic Zone I and the excess capacity is <br />depending on the status of unclear development, if we accept the <br />Committee figures that there are about 6,400 trips remaining and <br />allocate those trips among all the developable land in Traffic <br />Zone I, we come up with a figure of less than one unit per acre - <br />closer to one unit per 22 acres. The Committee says you can <br />.m <br />� � a <br />