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and urged that the Commission consider favorably the request to <br />change Land Use Plan designation. Attorney Caldwell stated they <br />would like to ask for a continuance on the rezoning. <br />The senior Kromhout explained, that as he said before, they <br />offered a drainage solution for the Cains and the others to the <br />officials of the St. Johns Water Management District. This, <br />however, did not turn out the way they had hoped, and the <br />District more or less insulted them by asking for 320 acres free. <br />It was St. Johns who asked for the acreage, and Mr. Kromhout <br />emphasized that they have never heard from the Cains since that <br />time although he believed without drainage they can do nothing. <br />Commissioner Scurlock'noted that Mr. Kromhout appears to be <br />saying that this is good agricultural land and should be used for <br />that purpose. He wished to know if the Kromhouts still would <br />have worked out a drainage solution if it would result in a <br />residential use. <br />Mr. Kromhout stated that possibly he would do this, but the <br />Cains have never approached him since or shown any response to <br />their proposal, and he doesn't like that. <br />Jack Cain wished to clarify for Mr. Kromhout and the <br />Commission what their thinking was on the proposal re the <br />drainage situation. First of all, they realized they had a <br />problem, and Lex Kromhout came to them and very generously <br />offered to help them solve their problem. After that they met <br />with Lex Kromhout and his dad at his father's house to talk about <br />this, and this meeting generated a few letters. Lex Kromhout <br />then met with the St. Johns River Water Management District, <br />which the Cains were unable to attend, and after that meeting, <br />Mr. Cain continued that they visited Lex at his office in Fort <br />Pierce and went over some costs and other things involved in the <br />drainage and they were all rather taken aback that the Drainage <br />District would ask the Kromhouts to donate 320 acres in order to <br />get drainage rights for their own property when they already own <br />a fee situation into the drainage district. Mr. Cain stated it <br />51 <br />BOOK U►2 Fl1,E 9� <br />