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1987 AR I BOOK 67 We don't know yet the level of cooperation we will receive from the owners of the Caldwell, Gregory and Hoffman properties to the east. Those owners have set up a type of consortium and pooled their resources in order to propose a development plan that involves 300 acres of land, setting aside 250 acres as enhanced wetlands. They have met with the Governor's task force on the management of marshes, the DER, and other agencies that are involved in the permitting process. At this point in time those agencies seem to be interested in their proposal; however, it has not been finalized. We are waiting to see if anything is going to come of that, but at the same time we want to proceed with this project. If we cannot do any mitigation in that area, we would like to go offsite and mitigate along the Indian River. Chairman Scurlock asked why we just don't go ahead with acquiring those wetlands, and Director Davis felt there is a legal question as to whether we can condemn that many acres of wetlands for this project. Chairman Scurlock felt that if everyone took the position of not selling their land, our only option would be to go to condem- nation. Since that area is so sensitive, he would prefer buying it all at a reasonable cost. Director Davis advised that the study found that the permitting agencies will allow us to mitigate offsite; therefore, the property owner could argue that we do not have to take his property since we can go elsewhere to mitigate. Chairman Scurlock felt we are going to have an argument with those property owners no matter what, and believed that the main objective of their consortium is to develop.land in there with some sort of a project. He was not sure that anybody should build anything over there, and Commissioners Eggert and Bowman agreed. Attorney Vitunac explained that the first step in any