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the sustainability of this County. He talked about infrastructure being in place before the residences and gave examples of other communities where the entire infrastructure was in place prior to anyone moving into that community. He believed it could be done with the best management practices. A OTHER ISSUES Councilmember Simchick talked about the transfer of density rights, and noted that page (20) of the backup mentioned "... conservation, agricultural preservation transfer density rights ... " and wanted to make sure that does not include the St. Johns conservation area. Her other issue was with the Urban Services Advisory Committee (USAC). She objected to the USAC Committee being chaired by the County only, and felt the Chair should rotate. Commissioner O'Bryan, in response to Councilmember Simchick's comments regarding TDRs, explained that normally when land is purchased for conservation, like our environmental bonds, it requires us to extinguish those development rights. They cannot be transferred or sold, and he believed St. Johns has similar restrictions on the funds they use to purchase conservation lands. He thought this would apply more, for example, with Fellsmere's revised map, if the Corrigans wanted to get additional benefit from their land, they could then sell those development rights to a project in Fellsmere and reap some economic benefit from their land without having to develop it. He reminded that "transfer" just means they are moving those densities from 1/unit per 20 -acres to maybe a more appropriate place, and it does not increase the overall density; it just moves it and brings it tighter together. Commissioner O'Bryan was agreeable to review and change. 25 July 23, 2008 / Joint Workshop ISBA, Sebastian