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BOOK 8 3 PA.,Ur 106' later. This also would prevent the closing of other Florida East Coast Railroad crossings. He concluded by cautioning the Board members to keep in mind the best interests of the voters in making decisions. Attorney Steven Lulich, North County resident, came before the Board and believed the Board has not been privy to all of the discussions that have gone on in the City of Sebastian regarding the twin pairs and the bridge raising the railroad. He wanted to inform the Board of some of the issues that are being discussed by the citizens. He said there are two different groups of people that are very upset with this splitting of CR512. One group is the residents of Orange Heights residential community. Their problem is that the north leg of the twin pairs would go right through their front door. Additionally, the commercial property owners along CR512 feel they are being cheated out of two-way traffic. Attorney Lulich said the concern is putting traffic from CR512 onto U.S.1 without causing a major traffic jam in the future. He reported one of the residents has a simple solution and that is, at CR510, there is no sign indicating that as a bypass north through Wabasso, and there is no sign on CR512 at CR505 indicating, if you want to get to the North County near Roseland or if you want to go to Brevard County, that is another bypass. These are ways of getting the traffic count down which are not expensive; just the cost of a sign. In addition, if you construct this bridge over twin pairs you are elevating the tracks in two places, making it more costly. Attorney Lulich next directed the Board's attention to a memo to the Transportation Planning Committee which covered the subject of Powerline Road. Between Powerline Road and U.S.1 there is a whole commercial area that has not been developed, and he felt traffic should be directed in that direction to take pressure off U.S.1, which would then aid in preservation of the Sebastian Riverfront. The suggestion is, rather than twin pairs as planned, perhaps the north leg could be two-way traffic running parallel to U.S.1 and diverted off Main Street further north, off of Jackson Street and Davis Street and getting to Gibson Street and right up to Roseland Road. Attorney Lulich encouraged the Board to consider this alternative plan by getting a conceptual for the Powerline Road plan and holding off on the engineering for the twin pairs long enough to get a traffic study of the Powerline Road plan and then make a decision. He felt this would not cause a delay for more than a month. Attorney Lulich concluded by mentioning even though there are no pressure groups, there are people from the 24