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with the major grocery store, a bank, quite a bit of commercial land use and some industrial use, the development itself will consume much of the capacity of this new roadway, particularly west of the canal that borders the Sebastian Highlands subdivision; that turn lane will certainly serve that development as well as the 512 corridor once it is implemented. Mr. Davis stated he expects very shortly a request from Dr. Fischer for an impact fee credit of about $200,000 to compensate him for building this section of the roadway. Commissioner Scurlock enumerated several other sizable developments where major roads were constructed by the developer to access his property and asked why we are considering spending funds for right-of-way acquisition when the benefits would be to the developer. He understood that to be consistent with our comp plan and so on, they would have to make a number of these road improvements to access their property in any event. Mr. Davis agreed and stated the roadway is serving a dual purpose. Primarily it will certainly serve the abutting land use. It will be required that accesses will connect onto this road and Mr. Davis was concerned whether there is a management plan to control the access to the road. He feared with the number of lots being platted along the road we may have a proliferation of driveways accessing the road. In addition, there has been no provision for a left turn lane to get to the left turn movement out of the through lane. Commissioner Eggert asked if that would be controlled by City of Sebastian and Mr. Davis said it would. He said he did communicate his concern to the City of Sebastian that a left turn lane should be constructed along the roadway since it is a commercial line. Commissioner Eggert asked how long it might be before Fleming Road would be elongated if Chesser's Gap were not there. Mr. Davis said staff has projected in the second ten-year frame of our twenty-year plan $180,000 for some right-of-way acquisition. So, depending on how this property begins to come in for development, that extension is, perhaps, ten years away. Discussion ensued regarding the design of the Fleming Street Extension and Mr. Davis answered questions regarding size of the development, number of trips on 512 with and without the development, and the planned thoroughfare from U.S. 1 on 512. Chairman Bird pointed out the main issue is the right-of-way acquisition for the right -turn lane, and Dr. Fischer's counterproposal. Mr. Davis agreed and stressed we should not pay him for the 17 EP 10 `991 - POCK �� F•�uc �•.�c.., A