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BOOK 82 N�IULIS'j' <br />Director Keating made the point that this is a lot different <br />than an affordable housing requirement with a mall. Here we are <br />trying to establish something that fits out in the rural area, <br />and the reasons we are justifying it is that it is going to be <br />pretty much self-contained. Maid quarters, for instance, could <br />qualify as affordable housing. <br />Discussion continued, and Commissioner Wheeler expressed <br />some concern about creating a supply without having the demand. <br />Commissioner Bowman returned to the meeting. <br />Chairman Eggert asked if anyone present wished to be heard. <br />Attorney Bruce Barkett came before the Board representing <br />the applicants, Dale Sorensen and James Cain. He recapped <br />briefly that when the Board adopted the Comprehensive Plan, it <br />put a 1 unit for 5 acres density on his clients' land, but the <br />DCA challenged this, and they ended up with 1/10 upa, which <br />basically made the property unusable. At the Board's September <br />hearing, when they were presented with the terms of compliance, <br />his clients came in as intervenors, and the Board directed staff <br />to accept their application for a Comp Plan amendment. Attorney <br />Barkett noted that to staffs credit, they took the ball and ran <br />with it and came back with the concept presented today, which is <br />something that at least keeps his clients in the ball game. The <br />plans for these developments are very stringent, and as far as <br />affordable housing is concerned, they have acceded to that <br />although it was not in their original proposal. Attorney Barkett <br />stressed that this new designation at least gives property owners <br />west of 1-95 an opportunity to develop their property in a way he <br />felt the DCA should accept. <br />Commissioner Scurlock felt the one positive thing this might <br />do is serve to keep large tracts under one ownership. <br />68 <br />