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for utility easements shall also be easements for the use of <br />cable television services. The first revision and perhaps <br />the most important, has to do with the lettering size' on <br />pia,ts. As you may be aware if you have ever tried to read a <br />plat which has been photographed on microfilm and then <br />reproduced from the microfilm at half of Its original -size, <br />It is very difficult to read the printing on many if not <br />most plats. This raaily defeats one of the functions of <br />recording a plat, I.e., to put the publ-Ic on notice as to <br />the ,intentions for the future sale and development of a <br />particular parcel of land..: To avoid this.prdblem the clerks <br />office and the county surveyor have suggested a minimum <br />character height of 5/32 of an inch which is the standard <br />size used for Department of Defense mlcr.ofiimed materials. <br />I incorporate for your review examples of -this size print as <br />well as supporting memorandums from Mr. Cramer and Mr. <br />Woodard which explain the.need for this change better than I <br />can. <br />Chairman Scurlock inquired if we have had objections to <br />these proposals, and Attorney Collins confirmed that we have. <br />The Chairman asked if anyone present wished to be heard. <br />Peter Musick, registered land surveyor, informed the Board <br />that he is here to object to the proposed changes. His reason' <br />was that the Clerk's Office has a microfilm that was designed to <br />micro film Official Record Book documents; it was never designed <br />to microfilm recorded plats, and so in the reducing process, they <br />are encountering problems. Mr. Musick pointed out that right now <br />anyone interested in a recorded plat can go to the Courthouse and <br />get a full size copy of it through the blue print process, but he <br />understood there are other ways of doing this. He further <br />pointed out that increasing the size of the lettering could take <br />a one-page plat and literally make it a 3 or 4 page document. <br />Attorney Collins confirmed Mr. Musick's statement and gave <br />the Board a copy of a 4 page plat of a portion of Grand Harbor <br />with the proposed lettering, 3 pages of which contained the <br />dedicatory language. <br />Mr. Musick requested that the Board take a hard look at this <br />proposal and come up -with an alternative. He also asked that the <br />Board request the Clerk to stop microfilming record piats,with a' <br />microfilm process that was never designed for plats but for legal <br />size documents (81 x 14). <br />JUL 2 26 BooK 7 PA,CF % <br />19� <br />