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DEC 19 1984. BOOR �,N29 P,{ -UF 2?5 Planning & Development Director Robert Keating advised that the public hearing for the moratorium ordinance had been advertised for tomorrow, December 20, 1984, and the Board instructed him to postpone it. Director Keating asked if the Board wanted to take any action to keep development from just exploding on the island, or should the Planning Department continue to accept any applications that come in that are in conformance with the Comprehensive Land Use Plan. Chairman Scurlock felt the Governor and Cabinet are receptive to the idea that -Indian River County is a good neighbor and that we will progress in the manner we have said, and he did not see any need for people to rush in here tomorrow and vest a site plan on which they have no intention of moving forward, as that would be just a waste of money. He believed that the message was clear from the Governor and the Cabinet that the whole process of designating areas of critical concern became very shaky yesterday and that we are going to see some dramatic movement by the State on that. Commissioner Bird was still a little confused about where we stand today after yesterday's trip to Tallahassee. He thought that we still have the problem in regard to the transportation element and that yesterday really did not do away with the obligation on a local basis to conform and comply with the HIMP. He did not know how we should proceed during this interim period until the recommendations from the traffic study are received and we know just what kind of capacity we have left on the island. Chairman Scurlock felt that the best direction we could take was for this Commission to make an absolute commitment to the Comprehensive Land Use Plan and to make the necessary improvements in the infrastructure so that the plan can be carried out, such as adoption of the transportation study and accepting and moving forward with the impact fee ordinance which 6