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BOOK 80 PAGE 57 MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Bird, SECONDED by Com- missioner Scurlock, the Board unanimously adopt Resolu- tion 90-58 approving the DNR Plan, with the exception that we establish a 20 mph speed zone in the center portion of the St. Sebastian River between the U.S.I. bridge and the RR trestle bridge, that channel to be appropriately marked and made as narrow as we can; that we then go to slow speed for 500' east and west of the U.S.I. bridge, and once past the 500' area to the east, then open up to 20 mph to the Intracoastal Waterway; and that we also endorse the commercial fishermen being exempt. (The southern area of the river is to be addressed next and added to the same Resolution.) Chairman Eggert opened the public hearing on the DNR Plan relating to the section from Wabasso Bridge south and asked if anyone wished to be heard. Bruce Maclntyre, who spoke earlier regarding the north county area, noted that he has 4 kids, all of whom are water rats and most of the fun they have had on the river has been skiing, mainly below the Wabasso Bridge. The new diagram has knocked out the area the majority of the people use, which is around Hole -in - the -Wall (Ski Island) area. He clarified that this is roughly from Marker 113 at the north -down to Marker 110. He felt the second area where you have created a time bomb is where the only kid was ever killed in this county water skiing. That is the area through the islands just north of Fritz Island, and now it appears as though we are going to make it legal to kill someone else there. The little cut that comes back from the Old Channel (Gifford Cut) is fine, but when you get down to the base, it takes a jog over to the west. That is a blind corner and it definitely should not be a ski area. Mr. Maclntyre felt the 54