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Tom Holdeck with CH2M believed that at build -out (for the 12,000 units, all the commercial and all facilities) it would be about 3.83 million gallons per day on an annual average basis. Commissioner O'Bryan compared this layout to Celebrations in Kissimmee and referred to the special assessment district that wanted to pay for the infrastructure. He asked. whether it would lead to special assessment for providing Police and other City type services. Mr. Cox explained that the assessment district would be able to do that, St 'Lucie County has a separate Fire Control District, and they would be working with the Fire Control District in terms of timing and phasing of facilities. He remarked that the basic idea of the spacial assessment district is that the properties within the project pay for the infrastructure having existing St. Lucie County taxpayers pay for these facilities. Commissioner O'Bryan wondered (with the proposed infrastructure) how p get to the beach and how Indrio Road would handle all that traffic. rather than ople would Mr. Cox said one of the things they have been trying to do is to capture as many of those daily trips as they possibly could. They were also trying to minimize the number of external trips, and trying to determine if there was a way to get people into a trolley or transit system. Commissioner Doug Coward wanted to give a more direct answer to Commissioner O'Bryan's question regarding entitlements of the affected parcels. He said when Mir. Cox answered the question about Adams Ranch he used the entirety of the property to identify 4,464 entitlements, and in fairness to what is going on they are talking about Sending Areas and not on the entirety of the Ranch. Further, it is only on about 12,000 acres, so the entitlements are only about 2400 units and that was one of his major objections. He believed there are loth of good February 19, 2007 9 Joint Workshop/St. Lucie