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commission I ever heard of. If sound planning was followed in approving the Moorings Harbor Inn and adjecent buildings, it. also is my view, that when shown in 1983, a site plan showing a 6800 +_+r\ 73 0 ► square foot building representing the largest entity in the village, that I was looking at the "specialty food market" which has now illegally grown to 27,000 Flus or minus square feet. There are many, many emotional and subjective reasons as to why this project is not desired. There are in my view many, many objective reasons why this is not good planning in the long run. The whole s=outh Beach will be adversly affected. Property values will suffer and thus tax revenue loss will follow. Everyone knows that a supermarket of this size increases the posibility of employee accidents, motor vehicle accidents, bike path and pedestrian accidents, all have a realistic chance of increasing over the present situation, and, will ta::•:: the present 911 facilities which are nearby. The people of South Beach made substantial contributions to have those 911 facilities located nearby. Eighty-five percent of the people in the Moorings do n+_+t want a 27,000 square foot ++Wit. supermark:e't• in their area. To support some of the above alligations, it might be of interest to quote Mr Stan Boling Chief Administrator, Planning and Development. Commission in a letter of August 14, 1989. Quote "Finally, you might be interested to know that a 1983 planning staff report indicated that at "plan -approved" build -out,' the entire Moorings project (including golf course and open spaces) would be developed at a gross density of units/acre". Ifi my view this indicates a low denisity approach which is the way Florida should be developed, and a 27,000 square foot super market. -in a residental neighborhood does not fit that. point of view. A copy of the above mentioned letter was sent, to Robert. M. Keating, Dorothy Hudson,. Moorings Development, and Ruth Jefferson. I urge you to not allow this project to go forward as projected. Very truly yours Richard H. Burkhart Mr. Burkhart concluded by saying that there are many, many emotional and subjective reasons why this project is not desired. There are also many objective reasons why this is not good planning in the long run. He urged the Board not to allow this project to go forward as projected. Lomax Gwathmey, 23 Sea Horse Lane, stated that as the director of the Civic Association of Vero Beach in Indian River County, he would like to read aloud the following letter from the Association to the Board of County Commissioners: ioa BOOK � P.1rE �� July 12, 1994