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BOOK 81 P,qG[ 7,(---,,2 showed It to be of equivalent value. The state and federal appraisers' main objection is that our local appraiser did not adequately account for the fact that the County has leased several radio towers at the Old Dixie/First Street site for long terms (20 years). The County was informed that the conversion proposal could not go forward unless additional proposed park sites were added in order to bring the value of the proposed sites to the equivalent value of the Winter Beach land which would.be lost from the recreational estate. -i relayed all the above information recently to Gene Rodenberry who is representing the Winter Beach Cemetery group in this matter. Mr. Rodenberry wisely suggested that rather than have the County go to the additional effort of locating another proposed park site and go to the expense of additional environmental assessments, surveys, and appraisals on any new proposed site,- that the County simply reduce the amount of acreage to be made available to Winter Beach Cemetary to the point where the value of the property turned over to the cemetery becomes equivalent to the appraised value of the Old Dixie/First Street site as determined by state and federal appraisers. By rough proportions, this would mean reducing the portion of Hobart Park to be turned over to the Winter Beach Cemetery group from approximately 19 to approximately 15 acres. I spoke yesterday afternoon with the conversion coordinator at the Department of Natural Resources. He felt that this would be an acceptable means of resolving the problem. He did caution that any parcel to be left in the park must be contiguous to the existing park. This should not present any problem. He also Indicated -that the appraisals would have to be revised to reflect the proper value of the Old Dixie/First Street site taking into full account the long-term antenna leases, and to reflect that the roughly 15 acres left for Winter Beach Cemetery would yield an equivalent value to the Old Dixie/First Street site. RECOMMENDATION: I recommend that you place this matter before the Board, both for update and to get the necessary authorization to revise the appraisals as necessary to accomplish the end resolution of this matter. We will then need to submit a sketch of the proposed parcel to be turned over to Winter Beach Cemetery along with the short narrative explaining the approach and how the appraisals will be revised. DNR will then attempt to get the National Park -Service's seal of approval on this approach. Once we hear officially that this is an acceptable means to resolve the matter, we can go forward with the necessary appraisal revisions and a final survey of the reduced Winter Beach Cemetery expansion site. Attorney Collins explained that today staff is requesting the funds necessary to update and revise the appraisals. He believed the original authorization was $5,000 each; the updates probably would be in the range of $1200/1500 each; and the final survey can be done in-house with staff. 76 0 _I