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kind of expenditure with a strip center would be much more <br />difficult and it will not solve the problems in the area. <br />Attorney O'Haire continued to argue that use of the property <br />for residential purposes is not reasonable, and the property <br />owner is entitled to a reasonable use of his property. He <br />emphasized that this property is at a major intersection within a <br />few hundred feet of the railroad tracks; it has always been <br />considered as commercial, and it is just a question of the extent <br />of the commercial. While site plan considerations are not <br />appropriate to discuss in a Comprehensive Plan decision, everyone <br />is aware that the site plan ordinance has built in safeguards - <br />buffering, transitional areas, etc., - to permit orderly <br />development of the property for commercial uses. Attorney <br />O'Haire continued to contend that to suddenly switch from a nodal <br />approach to the property and consider strip development runs <br />counter to what the Board has been doing in the rest of the <br />County. He, therefore, asked that the Board deny the appeal and <br />follow the P&Z Commission's recommendation to allow the property <br />to be planned and zoned for commercial uses as its neighbors are. <br />Commissioner Eggert commented that the little stub access <br />road at the east end of the property that comes out onto Indian <br />River Boulevard on a dangerous curve gives her almost as big a <br />concern as coming out onto U.S.I. She didn't see why commercial <br />traffic coming out there wouldn't hurt that to a greater degree <br />and asked Attorney O'Haire to speak to this issue. <br />Attorney O'Haire noted that first he would say that a car is <br />a car, and if a car is going home, it is no more dangerous than a <br />car going to a shopping center. It is not the type of traffic; <br />it is the volume of traffic. If this is an insurmountable <br />problem and that access point needs to be eliminated in order to <br />do away with whatever problem the Commission perceives in <br />retaining the planning and zoning of this property for commercial <br />purposes, then they will do away with it, and the land owners <br />won't be permitted access from that point. <br />40 BOOK 71 P I)E. 40 <br />SEP 6 1988 <br />� J <br />