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land owner's intent to have the property developed as soon as a reasonable access can be determined. Action on this request was stopped several months ago to see if Hawks Nest wanted to work with the land owner on providing adequate access from the current crossing or purchase the property. The purchase price could have been worked out at the average value of two MAI appraisals. Their answer was that they did not want to do anything except fight Storm Grove Rd. Since our current access is not adequate to serve as the entryway fora 170 unit development, we must have Storm Grove Rd. to proceed. As a result, we respectfully request that you reactivate our request for the road with the County Commission. I will look forward to hearing from you. Sincerely, Robert A. Cairns, Managing Partner Vero Sand Pines Mr. Cairns said they had relied on Storm Grove Road being there and are requesting that Storm Grove Road be put in at least to their property. He understood why Hawk's Nest did not want the road. He had wanted to appear before the Board in February and one of the Commissioners suggested reviewing it with the Hawk's Nest people to see if there was an alternative, but they had not reached any agreement. Failing that, he was back before the Board asking for the construction of the road so they could get on with development and utilization of the land as intended. Chuck McKinnon, local attorney representing members of Hawk's Nest Country Club who are opposed to the construction of Storm Grove Road, was troubled by several statements in Mr. Cairns' letter of April 19th. He read the first sentence of the second paragraph and advised that he had attended the November 1 meeting of the Board at which time the matter was tabled because of the concern on what the MPO would say about the necessity of Storm Grove Road. He recalled that the MPO's final opinion came forth January 11, 1995, and they did not put the road on the list of roadways in Indian River County that were needed through 2020. He did not recall that Hawk's Nest was requested to be part of the discussion on November 1. The letter also referred to a purchase price based on two MAI appraisals. Hawk's Nest does not want to purchase the property, but had indicated a willingness to discuss it, and had an appraisal done, albeit a verbal report, of approximately $400,000, the same as the assessed value of the property. They met with the Vero Sand Pines partners and were told the price was $1,700,000 and the price was not negotiable. They 47 May 16, 1995 BOOK 95 P' AF 73