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ON MOTION by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by <br />COMMISSIONER Bowman, the Board unanimously (4-0) <br />closed the Public Hearing. <br />Robert Keating, Director of Planning & Development, explained <br />that at 10 units per acre, they would be at a density of 13.2, <br />excluding the right-of-way. When the overall site is considered, <br />including the right-of-way and the 2.1 acres of environmentally <br />sensitive land, the development is just under 10 units per acre. <br />Commissioner Bird understood then that the net effect would <br />be that if the R2 -B zoning was granted on the buildable acreage, <br />the net density would be somewhere around 10 units per acre, -- <br />which is fairly consistent with what was done today in the <br />preceding rezoning request and with other developments in the <br />area. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by <br />Commissioner Wodtke, that the Board adopt Ordinance <br />84-85, rezoning the subject property to R -2B with <br />a density of 8 units per acre. <br />Commissioner Bird realized that his neighbors from Tropic <br />Villas want the area to remain single-family and if he were not a <br />Commissioner, he would be sitting out amongst them requesting the <br />Board to deny this rezoning. However, he pointed out that the <br />governing fact is the Comp Plan was developed over seven years of <br />looking hard and long for areas throughout the County which could <br />have higher densities in order to allow affordable housing. <br />Because of the availability of water and sewer to this area, it <br />was determined that this corridor along Indian River Boulevard <br />could carry a little higher density. What the Board is doing <br />today is following the direction set by the Comp Plan by scaling <br />35 <br />NOV 28 19114 Boos F4c� <br />' ' 5 <br />