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Mayor Dunlop complimented County and City staff for working together and coming forth with positive recommendations and results. He showed Commissioner Bowden a map of all the conservation lands in the County, noting that 26% of the County is in conservation, which does not necessarily include private lands that cannot be developed, that the County Commission may have purchased. He stated that looking at the Sebastian annexation reserve area, a lot of the property is non -developable land, and therefore they need to take that into consideration. He argued that one cannot automatically say somebody is taking in 10,000 acres and that equals 40,000 homes, because it does not. Further, a lot of these properties are already put to use in public ways and they cannot be developed as homes, which holds true in some Fellsmere properties and other cities. Mayor Dunlop thought they should compliment Fellsmere and Sebastian for all the actions they have taken to come back to the table to try to get us all working together. He thought the biggest stumbling block that has to get resolved is the New Town concept. He agreed with Commissioner Wheeler that if we could have one industrial area it would give strength to the whole County and create jobs for a lot of the people who live here. Councilmember Suzanne Joyce remarked that there seemed to be conflict between the Charter and the ISBA concerning density and height restrictions, and if Sebastian and Fellsmere could just agree that the height and density should be so much, and put that in the ISBA, why then would people still want Charter. She felt they just want to be sure there is a limit on density. Mayor Cadden complimented everyone on the progress made, and was pleased to see, and understood clearly, what Sebastian has done and what they would like to do. He personally supported them one hundred percent (100%). He also appreciated 20 July 23, 2008 / Joint Workshop ISBA, Sebastian