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�DAAR 1987 BOOK 6 �7 F.�G`r_4 9 3 Discussion ensued about the amount of property this would amount to, and Chief Planner Shearer stated it would be easily 240 acres, depending if you included the property all the way over to 1-95 or if you stopped at 82nd Ave. Discussion continued re the amount to add, and Commissioner Wheeler pointed out that Aerodrome Subdivision is not too far away, and also south of 5th Street is being developed. Chairman Scurlock further noted that both water and wastewater are very much available to this area. Commissioner Bird believed another option would be to compromise to some degree and just take the northern line to the end of the 40 acre blocks, including those blocks in their entirety instead of cutting them in half, and not go all the way to 5th St. SW where we would start encroaching on Aerodrome Subdivision. The Chairman agreed that we need some buffer between the node and Aerodrome Subdivision, which is an expanding residential development. Commissioner Bird asked how Attorney Sutherland felt about including the 40 acre blocks as suggested, and Attorney Sutherland believed that would make a lot more sense. He again emphasized that if residential development is not blocked out now, we will never be able to use this area as an industrial site in the future, and it is always possible to downzone later on. Discussion continued i.n regard to possibly including the 60 acres of each blocked area as you move across up to Rebel Road which would be 240 acres additional. Attorney O'Haire pointed out that there is an enormous borrow pit which was dug in connection with the construction of 1-95 that takes up a good part of a 40 acre tract and is a natural buffer to the residential subdivision on the north. He also pointed out that Aerodrome Subdivision is unusual in.that it has airplane traffic, and this would limit the residential desirability of that piece of property. It was noted that the 38