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BOOK 95 FACE 4®7 When my husband and I moved into Wabasso very early in 1994, we chose that area because it was wonderfully pristine, minimally developed and there was an abundance_* of wildlife present. We felt that this best suited the way -that we wished to spend the little bit of time that we have at home, given our busy professional lives. However, shortly after purchasing our home, we found that in fact within 500 feet of our backyard and within close proximity to a veritable wildlife preserve, 8 screws had been zoned for heavy industrial commercial use. We were appalledl however, at that time, proceedings had been underway for quite a while and we really had no recourse other than a very expensive trip to Tallahassee and a prolonged court proceeding with the attendant significant expense. Although we were very disappointed that this commercialization bad occurred, we felt that there was not much that we could do about it, so we tried to accept it. Now, we find that there is an attempt to enlarge this commercial node to 15 screws, via a complex series of land swappings all over Wabasso. We are very fearful that this enlargement of the commercial node will allow and in fact, encourage significant development to occur there with all of the attendant increased lighting, noise pollution increased traffic and environmental havoc on both the land and wildlife. Commissioners, we live in a neighborhood. We have neighbors with families and everyone who has purchased residential property in Wabasso has done so with the full intent and strong desire to live in an area that is quiet, relatively undeveloped and pristine with respect to the ecology. We wish to live in harmony with the area, not to participate or support commercialization such as proposed and would be allowed by the swapping of properties and the enhancing and enlarging of the commercial node referred to as Subject Property 94. I urge you strongly to please deny the increased size of this commercial node. I am certain that none of you, and none -of us wish to be awakened at 3-4 o'clock in the morning to that annoying sound of trucks backing up and tehe "beep -beep -beep" that goes along with it. Additionally, when I step outside in the evening, I look into the sky and see a very dark sky and a wonderful profusion of stars. With all of the lighting that will come along with the commercial development of a 15+ acre commercial node, that truly wonderful experience will be much diminished if not totally eliminated. I feel that there is enough property zoned commercially in Indian River County as previously plotted in the land use program. Please do not rearrange the commercial property such that a 15 acre commercial node will be located footsteps away from environmentally fragile wet lands and many endangered species of wildlife. We ask that you turn down this proposal. Our neighborhood does not want a strip mall development virtually in our backyards. I thank you sincerely for your attention to and consideration of this matter, and I only wish that I could be there this morning to deliver this in-person. Sincerely, ly HeidiD. Gorsuch,M.D. Attorney Dill then went over the process of application for a redesignation and expressed his opinion that the County has done all the work with no help from the applicant. He felt that staff has a difficult roll in that they are obligated to assist the applicant while trying to balance the needs of the other residents. He then reviewed Policy 13.3 in the Comp Plan which sets out the 3 criteria which must be met and expressed his opinion that; (1) there was no oversight, (2) there was no mistake, and (3) there were no changes in circumstance. He gave the Board Black's JUNE 139 1995 67 M ® M