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BOOK 77 PAGE 75 Robert Keating, Director of Community Development, explained that the purpose of today's review of the proposed Comp Plan is to try and make the public hearings a little easier when they are held on August 23, 24, and, if necessary, August 25. What staff would like to do is give a general description of what is in these two massive documents, go over some of the plan intent, and answer any questions the Board may have. Director Keating felt that everyone realizes that we have tried to do almost all of the Comp Plan inhouse, which has been a major undertaking. Only two elements were done outside by consultants, the Housing Element and the Traffic Circulation element. Director Keating introduced the following staff members who prepared the proposed new Comprehensive Plan for Indian River County, but noted that Roland DeBlois, Chief of Environmental Planning is on vacation this week: Sasan Rohani, Chief, Long -Range Planning; Planners Robert Loeper, Cherylene Boudreaux, Mark Crosley; and Cheryl Tworek. Director Keating wished to point out that Public Works Director Jim Davis and his staff did the Drainage Element in- house and did a real good job The Planning staff worked extensively with other departments in actually producing the plan. Director Keating advised that 10-11 hours were spent in public hearings before the Planning & Zoning Commission reviewing the proposed Comp Plan. There were a lot of minor and some substantive changes changes to the Goals, Objectives and Policies, and those revisions will be distributed to the Board later this week with the changes on colored paper and x -d through where something is deleted and underlined where something is new. He explained that because the Traffic Element was late and is the major element that necessitates the capital improvements, the Capital Improvement Element was also late. Director Keating presented a 20 -minute slidefilm showing the following charts: 2