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Commissioner Wodtke was in agreement with the policy re <br />transfer of density as we want to encourage that environmentally <br />sensitive lands not be developed, and he did feel a PRD is one of <br />the best tools we have, but it seems, in this instance, we are <br />combining these issues. He asked Attorney Vitunac what latitude <br />the Commission has in reaching a decision in this area that will <br />put us in a legal position where we are not defying what the <br />ordinance says there is a certain entitlement to. <br />Attorney Vitunac stated that, first of all, there is no <br />entitlement to the applicant. He must make a showing, and if he <br />makes a showing the Board agrees with, the Board can grant this <br />at their discretion. There are many pages of items the Board <br />must consider in reaching a decision, among them being the <br />character of the neighborhood and the effect on the health, <br />welfare and safety of the neighborhood. The Board could decide <br />that this application does not provide what was intended when <br />they designed the PRD ordinance in the first place. <br />Chairman Lyons asked if anyone present wished to be heard. <br />Engineer Darrell McQueen of Lloyd & Associates, Inc., came <br />before the Board representing Salama Development Corporation. He <br />emphasized that the 'restrictions staff has put on the plan have <br />reduced the density down to 47 or 48 units, and that is allowing <br />the transfer of 5 or 6 units from the 10 acres of wetlands, not <br />the 10 originally conceived when the consumptive use plan was <br />being presented at the public hearings which his client attended. <br />Mr. McQueen expressed his belief that they could permit these <br />wetlands through the environmental agencies as they have been <br />successful in permitting a reuse of quite a bit of the environ- <br />mentally sensitive lands in Grand Harbor, and the DER and the <br />Corps presently are leaning toward recovery of some 20 to 250 of <br />these lands for use. In regard to water and sewer, Mr. McQueen <br />pointed out that Salama is one of the developers who was instru- <br />mental in helping bring water and sewer service to this area. <br />73 <br />BOOK F4E 1 <br />