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JAU L eLiu Boor. F, He talked about keeping the same distance back from 1-95, but making a logical determination in following property lines. Board members agreed with the concept of a higher density for a certain distance around the 1-95 corridor with the other densities as discussed before. Some discussion arose about areas around Fellsmere where people go who want to live on 5 or 10 acres out in the country, and it was telt that should be left alone unless the DCA wants to tackle it. Director reating informed the Board that the DCA cannot rind a plan not in compliance unless they attend the final adoption hearing if requested to by the county, and we already have re- quested they attend. He believed the foregoing discussion has given staff the basic direction they need as to Urban Sprawl. AFFOKDABLE HOUSING Affordable Housing Specific objections ( Alternatives for Resolution - No high density areas to accommodate low cost housing - No designated group home sites - No policies designed to reduce housing costs Designate some higher den- sity areas for low cost housing Designate group home sites Adopt policies to reduce housing cost such as waiver of impact fees for low-cost housing Director Keating explained that DCA's objective in address- ing affordable housing, in essence. is to make sure that communities provide for taking their fair share of affordable housing so that it is not concentrated only in certain communities. Commissioner Bird noted that you can pay lip service to affordable housing all you want, but for it you have to have affordable property, affordable building costs, and affordable tinancing, plus the intrastructure, of course. It is an undeni- able fact that our land values are high in this county, and that, plus our impact fee structure, makes it difficult to create areas 16