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MAY 19 197 BOOK 68 PAGE 339 for the county to receive the R/W at a reduced cost, the benefit to the developer and the property owners being better utilization of their land, and their effort is all geared around doing this in an environmentally sound way. The Chairman advised that he informed the group that they need formal direction from the Board of County Commissioners since this actually involves a policy decision re the wetlands. Edward Anzek of Darby and Way, Inc., came before the Board representing the three property owners - Mrs. & Mrs. Paul Hoffmann, Mr. Martin Gregory (representing the Van Busch Trust) and Mr. William Caldwell (representing the Indian River West Association). He could not really add to what the Chairman has said, but on behalf of the owners, he just felt a concerted effort would be beneficial to all. Commissioner Wheeler was not clear exactly what kind of precedent we would be setting if we agreed to this request. He noted that anyone has a right to come in and work with the county in regard to any project, and he did not know that he wanted to be in a position of saying anyone can sit down and re-engineer the Boulevard. Mr. Anzek agreed completely and stressed that they basically are just asking for the Commission's endorsement or consent for them to work with the Commission or with the engineers. Commissioner Eggert believed that right now there are a number of groups working with Boyle Engineering, and that firm goes out of their way to work with all of them; so, she did not understand why there is a special need here. Chairman Scurlock concurred that he does not want an outside group to design our project for us, but on the other hand, we do have to deal with the acquisition of the R/W and we will be intimately involvedwith this particular group from that aspect. Commissioner Eggert believed we will be involved with them in that aspect in any event. 22