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• It seemed to Commissioner Ginn that more consideration should be given to the Commissioners because it takes a great amount of time to study these. This week has been extremely difficult with four meetings tomorrow and budget workshops coming up.. Too much is being jammed into too short a time. Chairman Macht agreed. - Vice Chairman Adams asked if the Board wanted to discuss a moratorium and postpone these to a time certain; Commissioner Ginn agreed. County Attorney Vitunac responded that moratoria have to be adopted by ordinance and they are not favored in law. He preferred to call it a short postponement. Commissioner Ginn favored a postponement until the Board can workshop or move ahead with an adjustment to the PD regulations. She felt the momentum was moving toward something she was not sure was wanted in the county. Chairman Macht thought the increase in PD's was a sure sign the developers were coming to Indian River County for something they cannot get elsewhere. Vice Chairman Adams believed that staff has encouraged the PD's because it gives the Commissioners a greater handle on defining the buffers and other things they have not been able to define in the past. The Board ought to look at each one without assuming each one is a 700 -lot PD; a lot of these agricultural PD's may be much smaller. She had not seen any backup and assumed the others had not either. Commissioner Stanbridge asserted it was necessary to re-evaluate the PD regulations to see if there are some holes that need filling. Commissioner Ginn enumeratedhermain.concerns: stormwatermanagement/designer ponds and green space versus open space. Chairman Macht added another concern: limits on reduction of setbacks. County Attorney Vitunac suggested they go ahead with the public hearings announced under this item and add other conditions if necessarys. The developer would have the choice to comply or not get the PD. Later on, those requests can be put into the LDR's as a standardized rule. Each PD requires special care because of certain aspects, that is what makes it a PD. Chairman Macht pointed out that each developer would have the right to revert back to the underlying zoning, so the developer is not being deprived of any rights. Commissioner Ginn felt that it is not fair to the developer to go through the whole process and then have the Board of County Commissioners put the brakes on it. She was not asking for small changes. July 13, 1999 BOOK iUJ PAGE &'