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� r i <br />Commissioner Bowman expressed her feeling that you cannot <br />actua,41y,recrgateoanything. <br />Mr. Bournique advised that Bud Adams has a huge tract of <br />land, 20,000 acres, with herds of deer, etc., and all that is <br />recreated lands. <br />Chairman Eggert did not feel that with our 10 acre type <br />subdivisions, 25% will give you a lot of habitat. <br />Asst. County Attorney Collins questioned the requirement to <br />plant at least 25% of cleared land in upland native vegetation. <br />There have been cases where wetland protection has been upheld as <br />maintaining the status quo and preventing a harm to the public <br />from the destruction of wetlands, but he felt it is another thing <br />to say, not that we are going to prevent a harm to the public, <br />but that we are going to provide a public benefit by having you <br />go in and plant something that isn't there now. He was not sure <br />that creating a public benefit through regulations is legally <br />defensible. <br />ON MOTION by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED by Com- <br />missioner Wheeler, the Board unanimously agreed to <br />stand firm with our original position and also to <br />have our staff continue to look at any way through <br />our rules and regulations that we can protect our <br />environment. <br />Commissioner Bowman asked for an explanation of the <br />following statement: "Moreover, as an incentive to preserve <br />contiguous tracts,..... the County shall allow a percentage <br />reduction to a minimum of 100 of the cumulative native plant <br />community acreage" <br />Director Keating explained that, for example, in the <br />properties near the Entomological Lab you have several types of <br />plant communities - wetlands, uplands hammock and linear scrub <br />83 <br />�� <br />BOOK i 0 f!,;E d f <br />