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was prepared by a student from F.I.T, who did his senior thesis on this. Included in his study was a very comprehensive look at - various alternatives and the design costs. This student worked very closely with the then Sebastian City Engineer, Hector Franco. The consensus was that the twin pairs was probably the best option, and that was the recommendation made. He further noted that Kimball -Lloyd has been our design engineer and has had no concerns with this twin pairs projects. Director Davis stressed that the Keith 8 Schnars study was not a "done deal." We mainly wanted to know their views of what was the best and most efficient alternative to serve the area. Manager McClary continued to maintain that the information on,any other alternatives in that study seemed to be very sketchy. He continued that.Director Davis is saying that the option of putting all lanes into the existing R/W would be twice as expensive as the twin pairs, but he wished to know if the County t.00k into account any costs the County could recoup by selling some of the real estate they purchased, especially those 3 lots to the east of the railroad tracks, which undoubtedly will become more valuable. Director Davis advised that we have not taken that possibil- ity into account, and he had some doubts about the value of 100' deep strips of property to anyone but abutting owners. City Manager McC.Iary next noted that the County had to give up two railroad grade crossing in order to get one, and he felt it seems that we are giving up a pretty valuable resource of which we have a short supply. He did not think we would have to expend any of those resources to keep CR 512 in its current alignment. Director Davis informed him that the F.E.C. is taking a much more aggressive look at all the crossings along their entire system, not just in Indian River County, and the message we are getting from F.E.C. is that if we have some crossings in the county that are lightly utilized, we probably will be hearing from them requesting that we abandon those crossings. The crossings that we are giving up are the one at Bay Street in Roseland which has a very low traffic count and the one at 87th Street in Wabasso which has another railroad crossing very close to it. Commissioner Scurlock asked if F.E.C. legally can close crossings based on traffic counts, and both Director Davis and County Attorney Vitunac concurred that they can. City Manager McClary brought up possible expenses incurred due to business loss or damages, and felt if the improvements are to be built in the existing R/W, it would appear to be more 7 Nov 26 1991