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Attorney O'Haire continued to argue that actually there are <br />no rules, and they should be set first and then process the <br />application. <br />The Chairman asked if anyone else wished to be heard. <br />Edward Cook, President of Sea Oaks Property Owners <br />Association, informed the Board the he represents 120 of the 150 <br />property owners at Sea Oaks, and they are independent of the <br />developer. When they were informed of the Grand Harbor proposal, <br />over 100 letters were written in opposition, and they also have <br />five letters of opposition from other Associations up and down <br />the beach - the Town of Indian River Shores, the Indian River <br />Shores Property Owners Association, John's Island Property Owners <br />Association, Park Shores Property Owners Association, and Sea <br />Oaks Owners Association. Mr. Cook stressed that the residents <br />represented in those five letters approximate the same number of <br />new units at Grand Harbor; so, if fairness is an issue, there as <br />many people concerned in the beach area as there are from Grand <br />Harbor. This project was voted down previously, and it is <br />difficult to see much difference now. Mr. Cook stated that their <br />main concern is the precedence setting. Besides the residents, <br />they are concerned about the potential for visits by the 600 <br />people from their hotel. They feel the main difference between <br />the John's Island Beach Club, Sea Oaks Beach Club, etc.,,is that <br />their clubs are owned by contiguous owners; the Grand Harbor <br />project will be owned by the developer and will not have <br />contiguous ownership. Mr. Cook did not see how the Board's <br />reasons for turning this down previously have changed, but if the <br />Board feels they have changed, he felt proper standards should be <br />-set to insure we don't have just a bar and grill because it is <br />the Board's responsibility to maintain the superior qualify of <br />our county. <br />Commissioner Wheeler pointed out two differences between <br />this project and the previous proposal are that the first was <br />taking a small piece of property and putting a beach club in a <br />�D E C 9 1987 <br />71 BOCK 70 F'A.,E 3iS <br />