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It was determined that no one else wished to be heard and the Chairman closed the public hearing. In response to Commissioner Macht's question, Director Keating responded that a similar situation exists at 129'x. Commissioner Stanbridge explained her familiarity with old plats. She continued that when Indian River County was part of St. Lucie County, there were not a lot of roads, but there were rivers; many of the plats have roads or rights-of-way to the river which were to be used by the public to navigate on the river because almost everybody had a boat. She felt that even though the plat did not specify the use, at that time it was common sense that it would be used as access to the river. She further explained that although engineers drew the plats, there were also long-range planners who knew that any community would not only need access to the river for the boats, but also that rights-of-way would be needed in the future. She believed that all four of the access points should be used by that community. She was opposed to abandoning anything that was put in place that will be needed in the future, no matter what the reason, especially in a community with small lots like these. Chairman Adams thought that the smallness of the lots had triggered this request. It appeared to her that 831 Avenue had been abandoned west of 128` Court. Director Keating advised that she was correct about the abandonment on 83rd Avenue; he did not know when it had been abandoned, he can investigate, but it was not recently. With that abandonment, Chairman Adams pointed out that it appears the lot at the most northwesterly location has no river access. Commissioner Macht asked for a recommendation which would help the situation, and Director Keating said abandoning that one-half of the right-of-way would give the Drivers essentially everything they wanted; it would increase their lot area to 85 feet. August 1, 2000 50 BIS 114 PG 390