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r OCT 2 0 1986 <br />BOOK 66 PAGE 92 <br />Mr. Boling noted that basically, the western 2/3's of the <br />project is the same as it was going through the DRI process. It <br />- is in the areas of the estuarine plan where the modifications are <br />being proposed. Mr. Boling advised that he would be presenting <br />the Conceptual PRD later on in this meeting. <br />Art Challacombe, Chief of Environmental Planning, noted that <br />John Beidler and Douglas Carlson of the Mosquito Control District <br />and Joe Carroll from the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service were in <br />attendance this morning. After last Tuesday's meeting, staff <br />contacted as many of the local jurisdictional agencies as <br />possible so that they could have an opportunity to listen to the <br />Board's thoughts on this matter, because whatever we ultimately <br />do with this project in terms of approvals, local jurisdictional <br />agencies, as well as staff, are going -to have to live with the <br />monitoring and overseeing the implementation of this project. <br />Mr. Challacombe explained that Condition 8 of the <br />Development Order is the key condition to the estuarine system <br />guidelines. The objectives.of the plan are: 1) To create a <br />more natural functioning marsh system. Approximately 110 acres <br />in the area are very altered by man's activities and fresh water <br />influence; and, 2) To create a system to keep the area as free <br />of mosquitoes as possible. He compared the modified estuarine <br />plan to the one the Board saw last October. No marinas are <br />proposed in the wetlands system in the new plan. The marine <br />activities will be limited to the existing basin area. In the <br />old plan very little high marsh was created or preserved, the <br />idea being that high marsh created more mosquitoes. Staff had <br />deep reservations about that theory and the environmental <br />agencies did not feel that dominance of the low marsh would be <br />the desirable goal of the estuarine plan. With that in mind, the <br />developer changed the plan to show a majority of high marsh <br />habitat that will be preserved or created from uplands or spoil <br />areas. The channel depths in the old areas were too wide and too <br />" deep. The developer has reduced them and increased the wetland <br />5 <br />