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Bom PALE 889 LDRs which supposedly solved those problems. These LDRs are all in compliance with the Comp Plan. There are some 26 areas that if complied with are supposed to cover the harm that a supermarket causes in a CL zone. For instance, there are requirements for lighting, trees, buffering, separation from the road, median cuts, driveways, and traffic cuts. It is the applicant's job and his burden of proof to comply with all of those requirements, and the Board can ask staff if they have complied in everything. There has been evidence presented that they haven't complied on at least 3 issues that are objectively determinable. Commissioner Bird was concerned about the commingling of the commercial traffic going in and out of this shopping center with the residential traffic on the two main entrances. He wondered if we found that situation in any other areas in our county. He asked if it was staff's recommendation or insistence that these two entrances be used for this shopping center rather than trying to get an additional curb cut on AlA or whether there is any option to that. County Public Works Director Jim Davis, after being sworn in by County Attorney Vitunac, advised that the LDRs state that when a property has more than one road frontage, the access to the property would be by the road with the lesser functional classification. In this case, we have AlA which is an arterial route which fronts to the east of the property, and three local roads that surround the property to the north, west and south. When the County approved the Moorings development many years ago, it pretty much established an access plan onto State Road A1A. It did so by platting the lots along the local roads that connect to the arterial route, AlA. He believed that has been consistent with most of our planned developments, such as Grand Harbor, where you have mixed land uses of single- and multi -family, residential and commercial. The lesser roads provide the driveway connections to the larger connections, and the other roads provide connections to the arterial. Recognizing that this was a platted lot within the Moorings development, staff considered access and relied heavily on DOT's access management policy. It is staff's opinion that the DOT would encourage access by those roads and would not permit an access onto A1A. That has been very consistent with their thinking, particularly since the Legislature approved the management policy on access. It is staff's feeling that the access should be Mooringline Drive as it was previously planned when the Moorings PUD development was platted. July 12, 1994 115