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on that - then we are saying let's put the dollars on the east where the most critical capacity problems are. - Councilman Oberbeck again suggested stopping the widening somewhere just west of Fleming and taking the dollars that are saved from the Fleming area to the Roseland Road area and widen the U.S.I/512 intersection. He felt that would allow money for land acquisitions, the drainage problems, etc., and the County could recover money from the sale of the property that has been purchased on U.S.I. Administrator Chandler noted that we have not included drainage and severance costs in our estimates, and those costs may or may not wash. Timing, however, is very important, and we are saying a decision needs to be made soon or we will be at capacity in that eastern section.. Councilman Oberbeck expressed his feeling that people in Sebastian lean toward 4-laning. Discussion continued, and Chairman Bird noted that this all is something like deja vu - he believed a year and a half ago we agreed, based on information provided by our professionals, that by doing the one-way twin pairs, construction could go more quickly with less interruption to traffic - costs would be less - and ,that creation of those two crossings at U.S.I. would be a safer situation - and, as a result, we voted a year to go with the twin pairs. It appears some Councilmen now feel strongly that widening is the way to go, but he still has professionals telling him that the twin pairs is the best way to go and he wished to know why the Councilmen feel so strongly widening is the way to go. Councilman Reid stated that one thing is that part of the twin pairs would go right through a historical section of Sebastian. Also that north leg of the twin pairs would go right through a scrub area, which is valuable ecologically; it would cut across the sand ridge; and there is a wetland area in there that would be affected. In addition, the north part of the twin pairs would bring in a road right alongside of the Elementary School and create a dangerous triangular intersection in front of the school, and it undoubtedly would upset the people in Orange Heights and affect the value of their property. Councilman Reid expressed his preference for the widening of CR 512 even though it is a more expensive project. Discussion again arose concerning the actual money needed to widen CR 512, and Director Davis referred to the following figures set out in the agenda back-up material, noting that these figures do not include severance costs: 13 MOK. L NOV 26 1991