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BOOK 'PAGE stores. She understood the use of the Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code. One of the hardest things she has found in serving on the Planning & Zoning Commission and as a County Commissioner is the Department of Transportation telling you exactly where to put median cuts. It doesn't matter what is along the edge. They tend to stuff the people into the criteria; they don't fit the criteria to the people. This is becoming increasingly frustrating. Commissioner Eggert believed there is a big difference in intensity between a supermarket and a grocery store. She felt Director Keating should have chosen variety store rather than grocery store as she has always defined grocery store and as she assumed it was continuing to be defined in our Indian River County Code. A variety store is a permitted use in General Commercial only. For that reason she would move that Director Keating did fail in reviewing this in several of the criteria and move to uphold the appeal. COMMISSIONER EGGERT'S MOTION TO UPHOLD THE APPEAL THAT A SUPERMARKET NOT BE ALLOWED IN LIMITED COMMERCIAL DIED FOR LACK OF A SECOND. In response to questions by Commissioner Adams, Director Keating explained that Sam's is classified as a department store, which is an administrative permit use in the CL Zoning District and limited to 40,000 square feet. Director Keating advised that there is no size limitation for department stores in a CG District. Department stores attract customers from a much larger area and they sell much more than convenience goods and personal services. He did not feel Sam's primary focus is to sell food. Commissioner Adams asked if trip generations were similar between grocery stores and department stores, and Director Keating said he would check with Traffic Engineering. Commissioner Adams had mixed feelings on this whole episode, and agreed with Commissioner Eggert that supermarkets have grown to be big grocery stores. She felt it is just a matter of semantics and that a good debater could win it either way. However, we have been dealing under the assumption all these years that they are the same and we have allowed the same use in our LDRs and have approved permit applications based on that. This may be the test case that says maybe it's time to split it out but the question is do we split it before or after, and that is where we are having a problem. 39 July 12, 1994