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DEC 4195 <br />aooK 6-2 PacE <br />St. Johns River Water Management District in the last year or so <br />has acquired a very considerable amount of acreage west of 1-95, <br />and another change that will affect this area within the next two <br />years is the completion of 1-95 to the south. Attorney Caldwell <br />felt the Board already has recognized the importance of this fact <br />by expanding the commercial node at this intersection to almost a <br />~ square mile. <br />Attorney Caldwell next addressed the questions raised re <br />water and sewer service. He noted that while the Cains would <br />like to have potable water and sewage treatment, actually they <br />don't want to end up developing in one acre sites the way the <br />rezoning request is laid out since the maximum number of acres <br />they would end up with developing that way would be 700 because, <br />according to the engineers, around 300 acres would be needed for <br />water retention and irrigation. Attorney Caldwell continued that <br />when the Cains bought this property in 1981, people were develop- <br />ing groves in Indian River County, but today they are not as you <br />can't develop a grove without nursery stock; also, to develop a <br />grove takes five years and is very expensive. He then di.scussed <br />intensity of residential units, emphasizing that the proposed <br />change in the Land Use Plan really is in keeping with what is in <br />the plan itself because you have MD -1 out to SR 60 and 1-95 at 8 <br />units.an acre, while immediately west of that, you go to one unit <br />per 5 acres or a 40 to 1 decrease in intensity of residential <br />units. He agreed that much of the surrounding property is <br />developed in citrus, but'did not feel any of those owners would <br />take their groves out of service for residential development at <br />one unit per acre, and he did not feel the Cain property should <br />have to be put on hold maybe forever waiting for the in -fill <br />development to occur because the planning is not done to connect <br />what he felt is a logical good use of the property west of 1-95 <br />to the existing MD -1. <br />Commissioner Scurlock again emphasized the significant <br />problems involving sewer and water service and drainage, and <br />42 <br />