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(BAR 12 1991 BOOK 820' FA'UE SS4 Director Davis added that in addition to the County considering alternate routes, the State of Florida DOT and Corps of Engineers have considered alternate routes but it has been determined that the route before the Board today is the recommended route and meets the objectives of the project. In developing alignment, Staff also considered long-range planning, environmental impacts, and land uses through the corridor as well as safety. This route has met the requirements of all regulatory agencies, and the mitigation plan of Phase III is also associated with Phase IV. Director Davis believed that until yesterday there had been no counteroffer from the owners but noted that the attorney for the owners, Michael O'Haire, was present to speak to the Board. Staff is also recommending the additional acquisition of an area to the west of the two hundred foot corridor that we are considering today for a number of reasons: (1) improve stormwater management in that area; (2) we can use that area for the location of a traffic signal control in the future when traffic warrants signalization; (3) it is such a small triangular parcel and we want to avoid a demand for access at that location since it is an intersection of an arterial route and a collector route, so there is a safety consideration. Attorney Michael O'Haire came before the Board and stated he represents the owners of Parcel 111 who also own two hundred fifty acres of land on the riverfront adjacent to Parcel 111. Mr. O'Haire noted that his letter had an attachment, a letter from Indian River County Board of Realtors, which was two years old, in which that agency offered a price of $100,000 per acre for the same land that the County now is offering something less than $11,000 per acre. Mr. O'Haire stressed that this is not a counteroffer to the County's offer but merely to bring to the Board's attention the fact that an offer from the Board of Realtors is not something off the wall. Mr. O'Haire also reminded the Board that the taking of forty acres to the south of this parcel, which he believed is called Parcel 110, is now on appeal based on the issue of necessity. He requested that before the Board adopts the proposed resolution his clients be afforded the opportunity to talk about possible alternatives both north and south of Barber Street because he felt nothing would be lost but a little time and since staff works within constraints and the ultimate decisions are made by the Board, his clients urged him to appear before the Board and ask for a meeting to go over the possibility of some alternatives. Commissioner Scurlock asked if anything had changed; is there a new proposal on the property or is it the same old rehash. 16