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OCT 1985 BOOK 62 PAGE 519 submission and in each case have been in response to input from the Regional Planning Council staff. If the target is moving, it is simply because the developer has been addressing the concerns of the various agencies. He continued that there also seemed to be concern that if the property is rezoned, that, in'effect, would be a right to develop the property, but as Attorney Vitunac pointed out, there are more controls involved in the process all along the way. Attorney Henderson also felt there is some confusion over the environmentally sensitive areas. The Master Plan has a broad brush approach to describing those areas and requires developers to come in with a survey defining them. They also have definitions by the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council of environmentally sensitive areas and those have been addressed. He felt it is important to point out that if they had come before this Commission with a plan for tourist/commercial and offered nothing in the way of mitigation, they would expect to be turned down, but their plan offers mitigation in the form of re- establishment of the environmentally sensitive areas which historically existed but do not exist today. Attorney Henderson believed we must deal with the existing conditions, what the developer proposes to do, and what the overall gain is in the environmental values that are involved. Attorney Henderson then introduced the following people who have been involved with development of the Grand Harbor Plan since its beginning: Robert Snyder Professional Engineer Consultant in Ocean Environmental Engineering Supervisor of Palm Beach Soal & Water Conservation District, 7 years Chairman of Florida Association of Conservation District's Coastal & Wetlands Resource Committee, 4 years Member of Society of Naval Architects & Marine Engineers. John Clark Marine Scientist and Coastal Resource Planner, 35 years 70