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Board of the continuing efforts of staff to improve this site but <br />it all hinges on the purchase of the property. <br />Attorney Collins informed the Board of the many legal <br />complications involving the former Clock Restaurant, the <br />involvement of DOT because of access to U.S. 1, and the issue of <br />paving the road to the Council on Aging Senior Center. Attorney <br />Collins stated that there are many factors involved, including <br />utilities, drainage, parking requirements, and specific needs of <br />each entity. He described the current situation regarding the <br />LaCava estate and the County's offer to purchase and thought the <br />signed papers would be returned within a week. There is one other <br />piece at the Southgate Mobile Home Park that the County needs to <br />acquire to supply the missing link in this strip of land. <br />Commissioner Scurlock felt the County should be moving towards <br />acquiring the property and do all the things mentioned at this <br />intersection and still accommodate in a reasonable fashion the <br />adjacent property owner, Home & Patio, who has been there for 20 <br />years. <br />Attorney Collins thought the adjoining property owner will <br />benefit because he has never had a real right of access to the <br />property and by creating a driveway for ingress and egress he is <br />going to be better off. <br />Director Davis said in early 1980's the plan was to segregate <br />the east and west portions of this street with a double cul de sac <br />but would not be opposed to opening up the road if we design a safe <br />roadway that can meet the needs of traffic, plus drainage, <br />stormwater management, utility accommodation, all the necessary <br />functions of a right-of-way. <br />Chairman Bird asked about the benefit to Home & Patio if the <br />configuration of the road eliminates the parking capability on the <br />north side of the building. <br />Attorney Collins described the special problems involved with <br />any design for this right-of-way. <br />Roger Cain explained that the original plan was to avoid a <br />design where it would be called a public street. He said their <br />intention was for very minimal improvements so the parking could <br />essentially function as it is now. <br />Commissioner Eggert was concerned because this area is used as <br />an access road between Home & Patio and the former Clock Restaurants <br />and she does not want to see an inferior road which will be used by <br />people using other facilities to the west. <br />Chairman Bird felt the traffic load on 6th Avenue would not be <br />increased greatly because there is not a lot of undeveloped <br />property to the east of this area. <br />33 <br />AUG! <br />BOOKCi d F �` 14� <br />I <br />