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�� dUUK ��yAC[��/�� Richard Burkhart, resident of the Moorings, objected to having a supermarket built on the proposed site. Be requested that the following letter dated 5/28/94 be made part of the record: Richard H. Burkhart 1936 Mooring Line Drive Vero Beach, FL' 32953 May 28^ 1994' Mr Richard N. Bird Board Of County Commissioners 1840 25th. Street Vero Beach, FL. 32953 Dear Dick:" At this time of year you are used to hearing from me in regard to budget decisions/ however I will leave that for later and talk to you about the Publix Project proposed for the Moorings. I have lived' voted, and paid taxes in Vero Beach for the past thirteen years. I also was elected`to six two year terms on a Planing and Zoning Commission in Connecticut, in a town I lived in for fifty four years. Spot -zoning and excessive development, was�urned down by that board sixteen times during that twelve year period' with fourteen cases ending up in the courts, all decided in favor of the commission. I mention the above facts only to lend some credibility to my experience and insight with regard to the above proposed project. In 1981 and agai-n in 1989 a site plan approval was given to a "phased project" in a limited comercial zone, which is now the property involved in the proposed application involving a 27,000 square foot PubIix super market. As you will note in attachment #2 the interpretation of the approved site plan in 1989 for the entire Moorings community was for a low density, low profile, shoppping village primarily intended to serve The Moorings' low density residental community as well as the adjoining limited-commericial zoned Moorings Harbor Inn. In keeping with the two unit/acre residental zoning in 1983 I was shown a site plan which was truly limited -commercial in that the anchor specialty food market was either 5800 or 7800 square feet with several other adjoined small spaces for retail service business. Clearl'y, they were, as indicated in attachment #2' part and parcel of the total "grandfathered" approved site plan of the Moorings to be spaces for retail and service business primarily serving the fully developed project. When the limited -commercial site for the Moorings Harbor Inn was zoned, and approved' specific plans, square foot indications of the three condominuim buildings, the sales offices adjoining, as well as the yacht basin and dock master's residence were required for approval. In my view, it is reasonable to assume that specifics were required at that time, either (1981-1983-1989) for the Moorings ShoppinQ Village. In all my experience a development plan for an area as large as theMoorings, would never be approved on a piece meal basis. The entire project had to be submitted in detail so the fully developmed project could be considered for approval. This is the cornerstone of sound planning, followed by every planning and zoning ~ 107 July 12 1994