6/18/1991 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Fr- I ' JUN 18 111' 91 Rou 83 r,, E 682 under the compliance stipulation, and they would move forward, but they would rather not do that because they feel they have had a lot of cooperation and have come a long way in working with staff on this. Mr. Watts confirmed that they support the staff responses to the ORC report other than the issue of density. As to talking about what the higher and lower level DCA personnel think, in working with their staff while having the administrative hearing pending, they have learned the DCA staff that has reviewed the County's plan is by and large one man's view of the world - they work in a team but essentially it is one man's work. Mr. Watts went on to discuss what was done in the Brevard County part of the Coraci holding where it is 1/21 and 1/1, which gives them some confidence that if the 1/21 is adopted, the DCA will not challenge it. He promised that if the Board does submit the 1/21 and is challenged by the DCA, the Coraci people would represent the County's interest and defense in working with Mr. Collins and Mr. Vitunac. Mr. Watts noted that in checking the DCA records to find where the population figures and the density caps come from for the 20 year horizon, they have learned that the DCA uses whatever figures the county sends up based on professionally accepted methodology, but they don't even have a demographer on the DCA staff. Nor do they have an economist on their staff to substantiate that their figure of 1.25 coverage won't distort the marketplace, and that figure, in essence, means that for every 4 people who move to the county in the next 20 years, you need to have 5 lots available. Mr. Watts did not want to be too critical of the DCA because he realized they are understaffed and overworked, but he did believe there are a lot more possible views of the world. For purposes of the record to support this applicant's request to come in at 1/21, Mr. Watts wished to point out that in Brevard County this same tract south of the C-54 Canal has been accepted in their compliance agreement with DCA at 1/21 along the banks of the St. Sebastian River and 1/1 in the western part of that land away from the river. The only way to get to that Brevard County land is through Indian River County going north from CR 512 and in so doing, you must traverse land that Indian River County says is 1/5. The County in a lengthy public hearing this morning addressed their plans for utilities extensions and the importance of having everyone participate so the County could build the infrastructure and fill in the gaps, and his question is how can the County run infrastructure up to the Brevard County part of the Coraci holdings through land the County has planned 92