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""�'�s� v FLORIDA NATIONAL BANK July ! 24, 1987 Mr. aim Davis�`., County Engineering Department `teCQl 2 1840 25th Street 16 (3 L� Vero,Beach, Florida 32960 Dear Jim: When the County determined that they would expand King's Highway north from State Road 60 to accommodate traffic at the intersection of King's Highway and State Road 60, the original engineering plans prevented any immediate ingress to the (Florida National Bank to north bound traffic. It also required traffic leaving the bank to turn south and cross State Road 60 and enter into someone's driveway, turn around and re-enter King's Highway from the south if they wanted to head north after they left our branch. Subsequently to my telephone call to you, you most graciously agreed to provide a cult to the northern most entrance to our branch. I was very excited about - this �ut until I discovered that the redesigning prohibited traffic from crossing the to go north. At this point you informed me that our customers who want to go north should go south upon exiting our branch, immediately get into the turn lane, wait for the signal to indicate left turn only and make a "U" turn at that time to head north. First of all, this creates a "U" turn problem and at best it is foreign to our customers since they are unaccustomed to making "U" turns. Also, even when the signal light indicates left turn only, traffic going westican make a right hand turn and could hit our customers trying to make a "U" turnl. I also don't believe that our elderly customers can handle driving in thin manner. Therefore, I beseech you to re -arrange the cut so as to provide our exiting customers the opportunity to go straight across and make a left turn. I feel that, this unnatural exiting will result in a number of our customers moving their accounts to another bank. As la- good corporate citizen for 30 years in Indian River County, Florida National Bank has always supported the County through its contributions as a taxpayer and as a civic and law abiding entity. Our 58 employees appreciate your consideration greatly. If need 'be, we will contribute financially to the physical corrections at the cutover. Than you for giving this most serious consideration to this proposal as soon as possible since we are already experiencing customer complaints and see a negative impact at our branch since the no left turn signs have been installed. Si rely, . C William Curtis, Jr. President Mr. Curtis appeared before the Board to ask for the Board's assistance with their problem. He thanked the Board for the consideration they have received, but stressed at length the dang�rs posed for their customers by the proposed U-turn at the intersection. He informed the Board that what the bank really would like to do, since there is an issue here of 31, is to pay for additional re-engineering of that space to please allow the turn they request. if sometime in the future, traffic gets too. B .1 i� 35 6 PACE 217 ROOK