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Director Pinto advised that the Utilities Department is <br />directed to have the property appraised by a professional firm, and <br />this is handled by the County's Right-of-way Agent. <br />Don Finney, County Right-of-way Agent, advised that the <br />subject property was appraised by an outside firm in 1990 at <br />$330,000. <br />Commissioner Scurlock asked if that appraisal was with or <br />without a business, and Director Pinto advised that the appraisal <br />did not include the nursery. <br />Continuing, Mr. Finney stated that more recently we had this <br />reappraised by another outside firm and they appraised it at <br />$393,500, which was for the land and the improvements. The <br />improvement value was roughly $42,000. Mr. Finney felt that it is <br />absolutely correct that we cannot look at our past government <br />purchases as an indicator of sales or to the market value. In <br />looking at the high appraisal of $393,500, we are saying that the <br />RS -6 property is roughly $20,000 per acre and the CH (Heavy <br />Commercial) property which fronts on Oslo Road is $56,000 an acre. <br />Commissioner Wheeler asked if Commissioner Scurlock was saying <br />that the appraisal was too high, and Commissioner Scurlock stated <br />that he was just saying that the Property Appraiser's Office has it <br />at $191,000 and that he has some questions as to whether it is <br />worth $393,500 in today's market. <br />Commissioner Wheeler looked at this as not only protecting our <br />interest but eliminating problems up front, because it is very <br />likely that we would end up spending a lot of money trying to <br />correct problems as residential develops around us. <br />Commissioner Scurlock agreed and stated he was in favor of a <br />bigger footprint, but stressed that CDM has said that we could <br />locate it on the existing property and if the consultants now need <br />the additional property, why isn't that in some master plan. <br />A heated debate ensued about why CDM didn't recommend another <br />location back when we could have gone further west and purchased <br />land at a more reasonable cost. <br />Commissioner Scurlock pointed out that if we do have a need to <br />acquire more land, Hanson has more acreage available at $20,000 an <br />acre. It doesn't have frontage, but perhaps we don't need frontage <br />to mitigate odor problems. <br />Commissioner Bowman didn't feel that buffering would make all <br />that difference with regard to odor and felt we would be better off <br />spending that money to have more technical equipment to control the <br />odor. <br />s0 <br />