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pretty high and quite opaque, and if Sea Oaks left it the way it is now, this issue wouldn't be before the Board. Commissioner Scurlock asked if what is proposed means you have to have a hedge, which is what he keeps hearing, and Director Keating stated that it does not. He felt the big question, which he hoped can be answered here today, is whether the present vegetation is one of the things that makes the road scenic and is that what we want to preserve. Commissioner Eggert noted that part of the discussion she has heard at the workshops related to the difference of having the opaqueness right against the road or having a series of plantings so that as you look toward the building, it would build up to be opaque to the building, i.e., is the 30' buffer to be used to make the opaque screen or is the screen to be right there by the road. Director Keating stated that the 30' is used to make the opaque screen, but he felt a lot of that vegetation has to be close to the road if you want to achieve the effect you have right now. Commissioner Eggert inquired about berming. Director Keating advised that staff does not have a major problem with Sea Oaks putting the berming in the back part of the buffer area and close to the building. In the workshop there was more or less general agreement on putting the berm in the last 10' of the buffer area. Director Keating then presented a drawing submitted by Sea Oaks showing the building in the background and a broken line of trees and plants planted in the foreground and agreed it is a very nice landscape plan if this project were Located on most any other road but Jungle Trail. The problem is that some windows show through the plantings which are not done in the continuous sense. Commissioner Eggert asked if he was saying we only wanted the top windows to be able to see the river, and Director Keating felt that would be a result. FEB 2 1 1989 35 !UOr lb or,E 195