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highly valuable areas of the state have been designated areas of critical concern. Realtor Ed Schlitt felt hopeful that when a good logical traffic study is completed and perhaps some improvements made, the number of units may be substantially higher than what is being suggested. He believed there are some benefiting factors as we don't want to become another south Florida type growth situation and this does help keep things in check, but there must be some degree of fairness. One area Mr. Schlitt did feel would be substantially unfair, as related to the moratorium, is that there are developers who have gone to substantial expense in developing plans and even put funds towards a water system to make some of the growth possible. He believed plans in position must be given some kind of consideration and that people who have made substantial commitments must be recognized. Jeannette Lier made the point that our traffic study has to be approved by the Department of Community Affairs, and Director Keating stated that they already have approved the scope of services and our consultant; so, he believed they would be hard pressed to deny his conclusions unless they felt they were completely unreasonable. Tom Collins, developer, noted that problems from below are spilling over on our county. He did agree we must make some plans, but noted that for people like himself, who have been through the planning stage and spent considerable sums of money, to be cut off at this stage would be unfair. He agreed we should expand our efforts and try to influence the Governor to either exclude us or realize we are working and give us some consideration. Miss McLarty realized Mr. Collins has a valid point, but pointed out that if all these developers rush in and take up all the available units, there are a lot of citizens who have been holding property for a very long time waiting for the right kind 65 L NOV 211984