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Jui- l e7 1990 st.ree.t_sl�,.but there is a lot less room available for creative buffering and planning of what is there to begin with. Attorney O'Haire emphasized that the Comp Plpn has addressed this property in two ways. He has listened to the tapes and read all of the cards and letters from the people from the Laboratory, and didn't quarrel with anything they have to say. This is a nice piece of property. It is a good piece of property, and it has a lot of value to it. Taking all of that as true, the Commission is faced under the Comp Plan with only two fair and reasonable options. Either permit them to use their property in a reasonable way, which they feel is what they are asking for, or buy the property. The Comp Plan provides an either/or scenario for this particular piece of property. He is here today on behalf of the landowners to ask the Commission to permit them to use their property. Commissioner Scurlock interjected at this point to emphasize that the question of acquisition is not a debatable issue today. The Commission is here today to decide what is a reasonable use of the property, and not to decide whether we are going to acquire the property. He wanted that to be very clear, because acquisition isn't a part of his thinking process today. Attorney O'Haire sincerely hoped that the Commissioners do not articulate some other reason for denying a reasonable use of the property with the idea of acquisition, and he would never suggest that such an idea would cross their minds. Commissioner Scurlock assured him that would never happen. Chairman Eggert emphasized that there are other options with the single-family PRD than just laying it out in a grid, and Attorney O'Haire agreed that there are other options, but when you lay it out in a single-family development, you are not concentrating on building areas and leaving open areas to the same extent. You can, but that is not what happens in the real world. 33