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BOOK 91 FAPE 5S8 <br />v !► <br />Mr. Click believed the proposed ordinance was inconsistent <br />with the intent of State and Federal regulatory agencies, and he <br />urged the BCC to lay it aside. <br />Larry Braisted, Vero Beach City Attorney, recapped the <br />comments of the people who spoke at today's meeting. He cautioned <br />the Board that in adopting this ordinance, which involves taking <br />away a legal and constitutional right to engage in an activity, it <br />is the responsibility of the County to provide proof that the <br />ordinance must be adopted for health and safety reasons. Even if <br />the County can prove that the activity is unsafe, the County has a <br />responsibility to choose the least restrictive method that fits the <br />situation. Mr. Braisted argued that the proposed ordinance does <br />not meet those criteria. <br />Commissioner Adams led discussion about maximum permissible <br />amounts of nitrogen and other chemicals in sludge. She agreed that <br />sludge spreading enhances agriculture, but she was concerned about <br />percolation into our water supply. She stressed that we must <br />protect our water resources. Although she did not want to hurt any <br />small businesses, she did not want the County to allow the <br />spreading activities to run rampant. She preferred to franchise <br />the haulers that currently are operating in this County and place <br />restrictions on out -of -county haulers. She felt that the County <br />should institute a zoning procedure and limit the spreading to <br />agriculturally -zoned tracts that are 100 acres or larger. She <br />reminded Mr. Nason that she asked him at the August 25, 1993, joint <br />City -County meeting where the City was spreading its sludge, and he <br />told her it was being spread in Martin County and a site "west of <br />town." She felt she had been misled when she learned after the <br />meeting that the site he referred to as being "west of town" was in <br />North Gifford. She asked the Vero Beach City officials to be more <br />specific when she asks them questions. She recounted that the <br />Board postponed making a decision on this ordinance to give the <br />City time to make plans for its own dry sludge facility, and now <br />the City has decided against building that facility. She <br />emphasized that it always seems to end up with the City doing all <br />the asking and the County doing all the giving. <br />Mr. Nason responded that if rates at the County facility <br />remain at their current level, the City plans to use the aerobic <br />digestion process. If the County reduces its rates to the point <br />where it would more cost-effective for the City to use the County <br />facility, then the City will do so. <br />There being no others who wished to be heard, the Chairman <br />closed the Public Hearing. <br />22 <br />
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