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r <br />Mr. Shibley emphasized that the land cost is a big problem <br />in most areas of the country, and to help solve this, they _ <br />suggest leasing the land to the people to build on, or making <br />available surplus land owned by a county or municipality, or <br />making the building codes less restrictive by granting variances <br />on lots that have been viewed as substandard. Another solution <br />would to to allow lot splitting. To redistribute the cost of the <br />land itself, new ideas in project development are being used in <br />establishing street standards, parking layouts, streetscapes, <br />design treatments, density, and subdivision regulations. <br />Mr. Shibley concluded his presentation with slides showing <br />different designs of clustered housing, widths of streets in <br />those developments, extra parking and visitor parking, and <br />ingress and egress of traffic. <br />Chairman Scurlock felt that this county is already doing <br />many of the things suggested in the presentation, but it seemed <br />to him that here in Florida the marketplace dictates the cost of <br />building. He asked Mr. Shibley if he has seen any government go <br />out and buy a specific piece of land for use in a different <br />concept of planning than the surrounding area and then allow <br />local builders to go ahead and build the actual development. <br />Mr. Shibley said that the only thing that comes close to <br />that would be the City of Fresno, California, which donated a <br />surplus piece of property to develop into affordable housing. <br />Chairman Scurlock wondered if there was a way that a county <br />or municipality could ensure that the savings derived through the <br />construction of a cluster -designed development would go to the <br />people buying the units, not into the pockets of the developer. <br />He believed the only low cost lots here in Indian River County <br />are located in older subdivisions, and pointed out that when you <br />get into the federal programs, the bottom line is that after you <br />are forced to put in roads and sewer and water systems, a new <br />subdivision is not going to be able to compete with an older <br />subdivision which does not have those requirements. The <br />BOOK 8 I r�iUL <br />L_ JUN 24 1987 <br />