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J U L I ? 1990 mor 8.0 can build, and perhaps we need to look at the entire area and S,i sca a it down. Director Keating felt that is ,certainly one option. Just looking at it through 1995 of the 20 -year time horizon of the Comp Plan, the segment of U.S. #1 that would be affected does show a problem. As a matter of fact, the plan actually identifies that expansion will be necessary there and identifies both State and local funding that will be used to rectify the problem. Commissioner Scurlock asked if any of those improvements for U.S. #1 or Oslo Road are on our capital improvement program or the DOT's, and Director Keating replied that none are. We are acquiring right-of-way along Oslo Road with the anticipation of it being a major length of an east/west corridor. The DOT has been looking at alternate routes to U.S. #1 to reduce the number of trips on that roadway. Commissioner Scurlock commented that one of the problems he has with the Dept. of Community Affairs (DCA) is that they would like to make everything more compact and higher density because you can service it better. However, the bottom line is that the boundaries of the service area can keep getting extended. You get infill, and you just extend the boundaries, and he didn't want us to be another Palm Beach County or Miami. He felt the DCA should give our community the ability to make those deter- minations locally, and they have, because we have just passed a Comp Plan and we had public hearings and people applauded in the audience at the low density/low rise. Commissioner Bowman was very happy to hear this voiced, because this was what she used to try to get over when she sat on the P&Z Commission, but she never could get beyond the myopia of that former staff. She was told that it couldn't be done, that you couldn't look at your overall densities and project roads. Director Keating explained that after applying the strict criteria of concurrency and looking at the capacity of the 25