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OCT 2 3 J990 <br />ROOK 61 v4GE 776 <br />Commissioner Scurlock continued to liken the need for <br />providing for road improvements to planning for water and sewer <br />facilities. He believed we need a build -out analysis of all <br />roads leading into U.S.I, for instance, because we are approving <br />things today, and he is concerned that we have the physical or <br />financial ability to match our road infrastructure with the <br />zoning that already exists. <br />Public Works Director Davis could understand part of his <br />concern, but was not sure you can make water and sewer analagous <br />to the road system because we are caught between two aggressively <br />growing counties, St. Lucie and Brevard, and we are subject to <br />through traffic from them; so, we could still end up with a <br />problem even if we did our planning properly. <br />Commissioner Scurlock agreed there are outside traffic <br />influences that we can't control, but he was concerned about <br />getting gridlock such as in Palm Beach County. He noted that <br />down there, they have special zones they have identified where <br />those roads cannot be expanded, and then you are at moratorium <br />time. He is saying that we are still a young county and have <br />some ability to control that situation; so, we better match our <br />development potential with our ability to provide the needed <br />facilities. You can always expand water and sewer, but when it <br />comes to transportation, you can only build a road so wide and <br />you better match it with your ultimate Land Use Map. The <br />intensity of a development not only affects water and sewer but <br />also roads, and he felt it would be to the developer's interest <br />as a property owner to pay all the impact fees necessary to vest <br />his position and assure that he will have the required infra- <br />structure when he is ready to build. <br />Administrator Chandler agreed there is no question this is a <br />critical element but believed it gets into our 5-10-20 year <br />projections. <br />Commissioner Scurlock felt that at some time this may necess- <br />itate our addressing reducing some densities downward, but <br />54 <br />