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F, <br />n <br />U <br />Bob Swift, 6450 Glendale Road, suggested that we really do not have an "urban <br />service area"; what we have are lines on paper which have been gerrymandered over the <br />years to respond influential landowners and pressures from Tallahassee. There are large <br />tracts of land inside the urban service area that have no services. He urged the Board to go <br />back and look at the development corridors and determine where and how we are going to <br />develop. He would hate to see 6-1/2 acre lots surrounded by one -acre or V2 -acre or 1/3 - <br />acre lots. <br />Chip Landers, 1320 18' Avenue S.W., presented his concerns from a building <br />contractor's point of view. The pressure is on 58' Avenue now for development and there <br />are presently only 65 properties of 10 acres or larger on the market within the urban service <br />area, many are not suitable for residential development. There are only 910+ acre properties <br />on the market which are located south of SR 60, north of the south county line, and west of <br />43' Avenue. Expansion of the urban service area will allow more affordable housing to be <br />built to accommodate the working people in our county. 58' Avenue is a major north -south <br />arterial road along with US 1 and Indian River Boulevard and the malls were developed to <br />the west because those developers realized development would be moving west. <br />ChuckMechling, 5215 Tradewinds, a principal with On Site Management and Pointe <br />West, was convinced that the domino effect could happen. He thought expansion of the <br />urban service area at this time would not be beneficial to the county. There is still land <br />available for development within the urban service area and the urban village concept is a <br />viable alternative to some of the issues discussed today. <br />Bob Adair, 7060 33' Street (outside the urban service area), who works at 7055 33' <br />Street (inside the urban service area), thanked the Board for having this workshop to allow <br />everyone to come together to express their views on this very controversial subject. It was <br />a surprise to him (living in a grove) that maintaining citrus is such a problem. He wanted to <br />October 9, 2000 <br />• <br />