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Mr. McQueen noted that most of the parcels along that area similar to the subject property are fenced in, and in cases where a piece of property abuts another, the County would actually be taking away some of the property by requiring a marginal access road because the owner cannot provide security to his site if that site has to access the adjacent property. The Commissioners suggested moving the fence back, but Mr. McQueen felt that if the fence was moved back that would become right-of-way and the County would, in effect, would be taking that property for a marginal access roadway. Commissioner Bird did not believe that Dave Rever or Darrell McQueen, or anyone else in engineering, would like to see the same type of situation that exists in St. Lucie County with respect to curb cuts along U.S. #1 and felt we must find a way not to create that same problem. Mr. McQueen believed the problem should be addressed in our zoning and not determined on a parcel by parcel basis, which is what is happening now. Commissioner Bird agreed that if we are going to require it, we ought to make it uniform and decide exactly what it is we want, how many feet we want, etc. and then let everyone know that they are going to have to design their site plans accordingly from this point on. Attorney Mann also agreed that the County should apply their policy uniformly. Administrator Wright felt they had the Board's direction on this matter. Commissioner Bird intended to make a Motion to grant the appeal of the site plan, but hoped that the proposed site of the building would not make it impossible to get a marginal access road through. However, he was reluctant to send the site plan all the way back through the review process to move the building back 10 or 15 feet, and asked Director Keating how we could short cut that process for them, 48