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CONCLUSION Mr. Cairns received site plan approval for the Surf & Racquet Club approximately 3h years ago, and to date has done only a minimal amount of construction on a duplex for which a building permit was pulled 1h years ago. On December 7, 1984, 3 days after being notified of pending action by the County Commission regarding termination of his site plan approval, Mr. Cairns applied to renew the building permit for that duplex. It is the Planning staff's opinion that a good faith effort to complete construction of the entire project has not been demonstrated. Considering the effects of the aforementioned, recently approved ordinances on large scale residential/commercial development proposals, and the effect of this project on the barrier island's principal transportation system and the development restrictions proposed by the Hutchinson Island Resource Planning and Management Plan, it would be in the public's best interest to terminate approval of the Surf & Racquet Club site plan application. Termination of the existing approval would still permit the applicant to submit a new site plan application in conformance with the County's current Code of Laws and Ordinances. Addi- tionally, construction that has begun on the duplex could be incorporated into the revised, overall development plan. Due to the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan subsequent to the approval of the original site plan, however, the project density will have to be reduced from the approved 7.6 units/acre to a maximum of 6 units/acre. RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends the approved site plan to construct the Surf & Racquet Club at 8600 State Road A -1-A be terminated. Mrs. Goetzfried noted that this is very much the same situation as the Riverbend project except that building permits have been pulled. She then displayed slides of the site showing the wall around the project and overgrown duplex construction, and reported that there has been further activity at the site in the last month since notification was sent of possible termina- tion of site plan approval. Attorney Steve Henderson came before the Board representing Robert Cairns, owner of the subject property. He passed out additional pictures of new construction at the site, plus the original building permit and the renewed permit issued on Decem- ber 10, 1984. Commissioner Scurlock wished to know how many water taps have been reserved for this project, and Attorney Henderson stated that the project consists of 69 units, and they have 57 JAN 2 1995 BOOK 5q Fr,nE47 \ I