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Planner DeBlois advised that approximately 300 acres is east <br />of the St. Sebastian River. The total acreage is 900 acres. <br />Commissioner Bird believed the main contention between what <br />staff proposes and the applicant proposes pertains to the <br />cross -hatched area shown on the west side of th.e river, and <br />Planner DeBlois agreed. <br />Questions continued regarding the size of the different <br />areas east and west of the river and densities, and Asst. County <br />Attorney Collins advised that the generalized survey shows 300 <br />acres east of the river. If a precise specific survey shows that <br />to be xeric scrub, the density east of the river also would be <br />1/5. It is only what a survey shows not to be sensitive land <br />that would be 1 upa. <br />Attorney Collins went over the history of this situation. <br />He noted that the Coraci representatives have been involved in <br />the administrative hearing from the beginning, and it was partly <br />out of their depositions that this proposal arose. When the <br />review agencies were looking at the original proposal, St. John's <br />commented that 1 upa around the river did not afford adequate <br />protection, and the DCA in reviewing that comment made their <br />recommendation to put it in a 1/40 category. The distinction <br />that the Coraci representatives are trying to draw is that 1/40 <br />was oriented toward an estuarine protection and not toward the <br />xeric scrub uplands. Attorney Collins then referred to fairly <br />similar property around the Entomological Laboratory where the <br />Board decided it wasn't appropriate to develop that sensitive <br />site at the maximum shown by the Plan. <br />Attorney Collins stressed that the main concern he has in <br />terms of this application proceeding is that these people be <br />treated fairly as compared to other areas that are developing <br />similar communities. He informed the Board that the Coraci <br />people are much less adversarial in nature than most of the <br />intervenors, and they have demonstrated a good sensitivity to the <br />characteristics of the property. Attorney Collins was concerned <br />81 <br />C 11199 <br />J <br />