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Director Keating advised that St. Lucie County has been working with them, but Indian River County is not really affected by the alignment of the high-speed rail. Mr. Bailey had a question about the host plants, and Chairman Adams explained that we are not allowing them in new subdivisions now. Director Keating advised that restriction will be contained in the new Policy 6.5 (Regulate Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants). Mr. Bailey explained that he owns some property just north of Vista Plantation which he thought was L-2 at 6 upa but found it is 3 upa on the land use plan. He understood that area may be changed to 6 upa. Director Keating explained that is one of the proposed changes and that 6 upa would go all the way to Cherry Lane. Peter Robinson, local builder, felt capping the node would be a mistake because of future demand for affordable housing. He believed that at some point the County would be put in the difficult position of having to decide how many tax free credit housing it wants up and down SR -60 or whether it wants taxpaying commercial. Commissioner Eggert asked for a fuller description of the proposed boundaries of the node, and Director Keating explained that the land use around the mall is M-1, up to 8 upa. The Comp Plan envisions that commercial would be restricted to nodes, and between those nodes we would have developments such as Vista Plantation, Lake in the Woods, Cambridge Park, etc. To the extent they are built out consistent with the 8 upa density, we have a more viable transportation corridor where we can have transit. We have the ability to have a pretty significant number of people living where they can walk to the mall, maybe walk to work. We think the land use pattern makes a lot of sense, but we are being inundated with requests for land use changes. What we are saying is that the Board can take a direct, specific action and say that we have enough commercial in this node, that we don't want strip commercial, and we don't want to encroach on residential areas. Director Keating pointed out that this is a workshop and the final decisions would be made at the December 10 meeting. Mr. Robinson felt the Board may want to consider the fact that a big chunk of land across from Indian River Square is going to be purchased by Indian River Community College. He suggested the Board may want to look at the strip of residential that runs from the canal by 16th Street out to SR -60, because he didn't see that developing as residential. Warren Dill, attorney representing Peter Rodriguez of Vero Holdings and owner of a 17 -acre parcel of A-1 by the college, 27 NOVEMBER 5, 1996 BOOK 99 Ma 656