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two years ago, he has not seen a grader on 79th Street. He felt this area was an orphan of the County and of Fellsmere, and implored the Board to do something so that their children can get to school safely and people can get to work. Furthermore, he has received notices from the Post Office at times saying that they refuse to go down that road to deliver the mail. Commissioner Wheeler felt there is justification in expanding the grader route, and while Commissioner Scurlock agreed, he felt we have to realize that with dirt roads there always will be times when consistent maintenance is a problem. He believed we should approach the problem in this area by trying to acquire right-of-way, identifying an on-going program to improve the road, and making sure that the grader.route is a reasonable one in terms of frequency. Beyond that, however, paving a one -mile stretch of roadway would be very expensive to the people who would benefit by it and be included in the special assessment district. Director Davis explained that the County currently grades 103rd Avenue from CR -512 south to 81st Street. We do not grade south of 81st Street down to Berry Groves. There are some homes in that area, but it is not a large concentration of homes because many people down there are on 20 acres. Commissioner Scurlock felt the County has the responsibility to do something in a reasonable way to provide access for that entire length and provide a core system system like we did for Vero Lake Estates since this area will never have high densities. According to Mrs. Boisvert, all the 5 -acre tracts are gone and only 20 -acre lots are available. Mr. Tillman explained that the drainage district has 40 -ft. wide ri-ghts-of-way that run east and west every quarter of a mile. Historically, in order to save the cost of each homeowner having to put a culvert across the district's system, whoever developed first built the road all the way back to their property, so sometimes the road is on the south side as -in the case of Ditch 18 where the road is entirely on private property. Those owners could, at some time, deny access to the road, but the road is currently on the grader route. A majority of these roadways are going to be somewhat on private property. If the people want to request the County to enlarge the grader route, the District would be receptive to that as to the degree of whatever right-of-way we have left over. Commissioner Wheeler cautioned again that the cost would be very substantial to set up a taxing district to improve the roads in that area because of the large lots and low densities. 17 SEP 17�� J