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OCT 2 3 1985 BOOK . 62 FACE 517 The Board of County Commissioners thereupon recessed at 12:30 P.M. for lunch and reconvened at 2:00 P.M. with the same members present. The Chairman reopened the hearing on the Grand Harbor proposed rezonings and Comprehensive Plan amendments and requested that Attorney Henderson limit their presentation to the tourist/commercial node in the environmentally sensitive area. Attorney Henderson believed the presentation concentrates on that issue. Planner Shearer wished to clarify one point on the environ- mentally sensitive Land Use designation and the proposed rezoning to 121111-6. He assured the Board that it is standard practice for a developer, as in Vero Groves, to apply for a zoning category for an entire project and then all of the development rights from the environmentally sensitive land are transferred to the uplands. Commissioner Scurlock questioned why staff would even consider including any environmentally sensitive area when the site is of such a size. Director Keating explained that first of all staff did an analysis on a request made by the developer, and this was the area he delineated. He was then required to do an environmental survey to determine the characteristics and quality of the environmentally sensitive land. Director Keating continued that basically through this whole process, the environmentally sensitive land was further divided into exempt and non-exempt areas, the basis being its productive value. Using those values and the survey, and also because of the mitigation proposed, staff felt there was justification for delineating this area as a tourist/commercial area. Where the environmentally sensitive land was touched, it was not that of the highest value and other environmentally sensitive land would be created for what was lost. Commissioner Scurlock felt that is a separate topic and we can't consider it at this point. 68