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FEB P4 1990 BOOK79 F1�E136 a compliance agreement. He further explained that each region adopted a plan consistent with the state plan, the main objective of which is reducing urban sprawl, and now local government must have a plan consistent with their region and the state. Commissioner Scurlock continued to object to what the DCA is doing, stating that they have even got to the point of telling us that we are going to issue long term bonds for infrastructure, and, on the advice of the Finance Committee, we got a 1¢ sales tax passed just so we wouldn't have to issue bonds and incur interest expense. Chairman Eggert did not think DCA told us we had to do that. She believed it has been rewritten in here, and there is a difference in agreement as to what it means. Director Keating continued to explain the state plan and the local plan, emphasizing that consistency is one of the issues and one basis by which DCA makes its determination of compliance and non-compliance. Commissioner Wheeler expressed his concern that we are arbitrarily deciding about the use people's property can have just based on the location of a certain line. Director Keating did not think we did things arbitrarily and believed he can supply reasons for what we did. Commissioner Scurlock believed the people in our particular community said they would like low rise, low density, and now we get the Urban Sprawl concept, and the DCA is saying raise some densities east of 1-95 because we want to concentrate it in there. So what happens is that you get packed in there, and then you move the line to the west, and the result of that is a higher density countywide and more population in the long run. He believed the DCA originally said that if you can provide the infrastructure to meet the needs of the growth, that is what the goal is. One of the problem he has with the urban sprawl idea is that you don't give any credit for the node concept. He 26 ® s M