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9/1/1981
O. (SECOND COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN MEETING) TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA, MET IN SPECIAL SESSION AT THE VERO BEACH SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM, 1707 16TH ST., VERO BEACH, FLORIDA, ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1981, AT 7:30 O'CLOCK P.I. PRESENT WERE PATRICK B. LYONS, CHAIRMAN; WILLIAM C. WODTKE, SJR., MICE CHAIRMAN; DICK BIRD; ALFRED GROVER FLETCHER; AND DON C. SCURLOCK, .JR. ALSO PRESENT WERE NEIL A. NELSON, COUNTY ADMINISTRATOR; R. STEPHEN HOULIHAN, ASSISTANT ATTORNEY TO THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS; AND VIRGINIA HARGREAVES, DEPUTY CLERK. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED THE MEETING TO ORDER. SECOND PUBLIC HEARING ON PROPOSED LAND USE MAP FOR INDIAN RIVER COUNTY THE HOUR OF 7:30 O'CLOCK P.M. HAVING PASSED, THE DEPUTY CLERK READ THE FOLLOWING NOTICE WITH PROOF OF PUBLICATION ATTACHED, TO -WIT: Fou 47 PAGE310 i,,-- . t^t• the --d Ver: c"eec^ I',,,, -Jou- new Spxprr puoLshnd at •^ .: �.ln :•. r C^.un•':, .n Inat the s . r ,s apAl ^r ht; hew,inre .. •.hed m sa•d In r (.•vni. Ran v a= -a5 teen .:red as - c•1.'iat the ec- t otire .neVn sch, m : aR. e, C.unrv, I ,.nda a J .: con -R 11'e f,,.t kcat,on �.•t'e 3—C-1CAv of a ..s„m,_. ••,3nr afurtnrr her. —1-r PAid r _mrsrd an. .erS.^n. •� msor C'•p".' brt 3r �- ,,a. ,-bate. rmmtsv ntaar refund for the p.:•War of se+:ur,nq f§iS aT/rr- '.aCm!-•'fir P- --,n in the Sato now -,parer. J [� Sworn •-, and subsu.bed before me 0,Si" Jav of ✓-" Le' A D. �•.• / u ' sus. n . a aR!•rr iClerk or t,^ C,r a Court, Ir.r..an R,,e J nn,, Florida, ,SEAL PROIPOSEED F'U"w1'Uf` �E !I AI%30 USES MAP P FOR INDIAN RIVER COL,II'ilTY � -Na .,ir•t.� u 1 IV' + P ♦ ..T '•ftS�EFL`r>` ,�a1ti 31 014i:;; •�:;�R •7' 1 -i•1 `� <.•ai'+A \\ .nc1.J:3Ta • . AG �._ ECWSELF— LD NVa�O�4JEVAFEAS \ MXf3 AG s � =fie -= t +� , � � � � \, ❑ v - �_ !s rel i r °;":1 ►.�_������ AG `"—LD D .....«„ e CC ET tl., r. J ����.;+�1+•re�s �'r12,.�r.����% �t:•e -'"` a t ,iNa{a •�LN'a'ie.'� FGiiifq. 1 5 Y •moi •,Y_.1 _ I 4i. ti,.+g . r.2��«r,>, ;44<.i •.•� 4::�?:.e3:+:�`�,�: � - � t ^t°'•y>ija j 4J'� 4�b-,c.�y` p+'. °aV '^„`S�"'.,E-Y: ji' IN 41. I eY �'✓V21 iFj ��.��y •Ij7i fit '.o 1 y Ii A/� 1 • •MD 2 Dal ti�.',:e2:8a \ t a .t a 3sai\d j.a•°>r Z t. R 02 - 1 \i; �tif;r::+�:::a,+,'•it.•'zaes'Ei AG <� R z<. 3 units per acre I^;: yr ;:J,}.L+ •9°i:'"1� �O 7-2 6 a n n AG ��` d4 +t fe a.« ar:'i wq'� ♦ •i\� 3-1 B ° ° +'+� �,bt�s,'�`:sti7•LasS,3�s;s±tec4 =�1 16 T �relri<va:r`e1i L � f LD1 T t�v. � 1 2 1/2 acre \ .is. ,.-r3.__—.— --._ 1 10 acres - PROPOSED LACED USE MAP FOR INDIAN RIVER COUN'T'Y NOTICE OF REGULATION OF LAPD USE r'. The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County proposes to regulate the use of land within the area shown in the map in this advertise- ment. Public hearings on the proposal will be held on Tuesday, August 18, 1981, and Tuesday, September 1, 1981, at 7:30 P.M., in the Vero Beach Senior High School, 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, ',Florida. i The Land Use Element of the proposed Com- prehensive Plan will be discussed at both hearings. The -•-Intergovernmental Co-ordination; Housing; Utility; Sanitary Sewers, Solid Waste, Drainage and Potable Water; Recreation; Conservation and Coastal Zone Protection _ and Transportation Elements -will be discussed at the September 1 hear- ing. -_C�f the proposed Comprehensive are available at the Indian River County Planning and Zoning Department located at 2121 14th Avenue, Vero Beach, Florida, at a cost of $1S. If any person decides to appeal any decision made on the above matter, he will need a record of the proceedings, and for such purposes,_ he may need to insure that -a verbatim record of the pro- ceedings is made, which record includes the testimony ini evidence on which the appeal is based. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ;OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA By: /s/ Patrick B. Lyons, Chairman Aug. 11, 23, 1981. THE PRO POSE OFUTURE - Visa" are de.9.atedas: LANG USE MAP AdrteYlwe.-la 4,nil - TheFutyre Lana uu M.P.{M."repl+l Part R.I.S. Stmodatut-2.Sa —%-1 of the Land Use Element or the earn—hen.". Threat +rets with." Tree Canner14re Plen for Ind.an R.vel Carol,, Irl auraose .1 t. t deYaiopod a MsIon a,I 1"lat.lra of reyMn/N1, def.pnateee.St.r.gaM reterel.ndYuanerm s•`�er eamm.retal had." ",brat land Yuf. Thee for tree "vet /wM1, loan. Thee i<tleiry en+, have 0* -.1 l 1red .1 anned patterns i -..de r.s,df.hal — eomMN<ul dr,triet1 W.fM. M. aasrn. — a ttus. Y101. 1MYitrN1 YMl .n1h1Yt.Pna1 Y,e,r ape th.n..ls, The aatltrel earwry al Ys.s —0 a sate-pr.serea.— Areas..9—it... I Ysel, eacarreyea tPGe.IeFMH,e Mtere. and area wan•mururea.us. . Perot. eo"sassettat andrndust-1 YM Yl.+ ufain resMen..I t+tld eN dg7rH11 .1. • + - are d.up"at.d a1 Nrete.rc 10(+bM,> wadee .•shown on the -P ev rout p "tatro" d.."— to .—a odate ahtatal.d dern+t Each Cla,s.hc+f.00l. M These are da.9-led As: _- add. 01—he, A ,Masai -be." or achvdt Low Dens,, 1 -to 2 —11. -1._ .2 , Shat shay tie dsq. .d M devaao ..shod Me ►Pty Damn, 2 - foaw+.nJrn ►a- g II• •-qef MMM mall The PropoW Fenne LAM MMtarh Danish I oM a..rrFaae - UM Map also def+p"ala. tha se".ra sat's- MM.Ya wnMry 2 • b 17 Mrtrecre te -- a, aaviroa"s.rttaRf a ed.hM YMs. I- - _ w.r-�. "- •. � _ _-- _. AW. 11.22. P"1._ v� E P 1 199-1 VERO BEACH PRESS•JOURNAL 1 Pn All Pubinhcd Weekly � Vera Beach, Indian River County, Flur,da ' r' Cot;' Tv OF INDIAN ,RIVER: STATE OF FLORIDA /I • 'nc.t au'•' .r t`t .. 1 ' .r �1 th •] 4 !, 14.n iA .r i.. ..n V i j..- A -.t PCT'ey^tI'�.'-Cd A •...n ..an n„cr C,•�rrr, {I ,_a. � m no ma•,rr olo_,./_ty i .n tree Curt, was pub• i I n t / sheo ^ ;md newsoaper m the issues of i,,-- . t^t• the --d Ver: c"eec^ I',,,, -Jou- new Spxprr puoLshnd at •^ .: �.ln :•. r C^.un•':, .n Inat the s . r ,s apAl ^r ht; hew,inre .. •.hed m sa•d In r (.•vni. Ran v a= -a5 teen .:red as - c•1.'iat the ec- t otire .neVn sch, m : aR. e, C.unrv, I ,.nda a J .: con -R 11'e f,,.t kcat,on �.•t'e 3—C-1CAv of a ..s„m,_. ••,3nr afurtnrr her. —1-r PAid r _mrsrd an. .erS.^n. •� msor C'•p".' brt 3r �- ,,a. ,-bate. rmmtsv ntaar refund for the p.:•War of se+:ur,nq f§iS aT/rr- '.aCm!-•'fir P- --,n in the Sato now -,parer. J [� Sworn •-, and subsu.bed before me 0,Si" Jav of ✓-" Le' A D. �•.• / u ' sus. n . a aR!•rr iClerk or t,^ C,r a Court, Ir.r..an R,,e J nn,, Florida, ,SEAL PROIPOSEED F'U"w1'Uf` �E !I AI%30 USES MAP P FOR INDIAN RIVER COL,II'ilTY � -Na .,ir•t.� u 1 IV' + P ♦ ..T '•ftS�EFL`r>` ,�a1ti 31 014i:;; •�:;�R •7' 1 -i•1 `� <.•ai'+A \\ .nc1.J:3Ta • . AG �._ ECWSELF— LD NVa�O�4JEVAFEAS \ MXf3 AG s � =fie -= t +� , � � � � \, ❑ v - �_ !s rel i r °;":1 ►.�_������ AG `"—LD D .....«„ e CC ET tl., r. J ����.;+�1+•re�s �'r12,.�r.����% �t:•e -'"` a t ,iNa{a •�LN'a'ie.'� FGiiifq. 1 5 Y •moi •,Y_.1 _ I 4i. ti,.+g . r.2��«r,>, ;44<.i •.•� 4::�?:.e3:+:�`�,�: � - � t ^t°'•y>ija j 4J'� 4�b-,c.�y` p+'. °aV '^„`S�"'.,E-Y: ji' IN 41. I eY �'✓V21 iFj ��.��y •Ij7i fit '.o 1 y Ii A/� 1 • •MD 2 Dal ti�.',:e2:8a \ t a .t a 3sai\d j.a•°>r Z t. R 02 - 1 \i; �tif;r::+�:::a,+,'•it.•'zaes'Ei AG <� R z<. 3 units per acre I^;: yr ;:J,}.L+ •9°i:'"1� �O 7-2 6 a n n AG ��` d4 +t fe a.« ar:'i wq'� ♦ •i\� 3-1 B ° ° +'+� �,bt�s,'�`:sti7•LasS,3�s;s±tec4 =�1 16 T �relri<va:r`e1i L � f LD1 T t�v. � 1 2 1/2 acre \ .is. ,.-r3.__—.— --._ 1 10 acres - PROPOSED LACED USE MAP FOR INDIAN RIVER COUN'T'Y NOTICE OF REGULATION OF LAPD USE r'. The Board of County Commissioners of Indian River County proposes to regulate the use of land within the area shown in the map in this advertise- ment. Public hearings on the proposal will be held on Tuesday, August 18, 1981, and Tuesday, September 1, 1981, at 7:30 P.M., in the Vero Beach Senior High School, 1707 16th Street, Vero Beach, ',Florida. i The Land Use Element of the proposed Com- prehensive Plan will be discussed at both hearings. The -•-Intergovernmental Co-ordination; Housing; Utility; Sanitary Sewers, Solid Waste, Drainage and Potable Water; Recreation; Conservation and Coastal Zone Protection _ and Transportation Elements -will be discussed at the September 1 hear- ing. -_C�f the proposed Comprehensive are available at the Indian River County Planning and Zoning Department located at 2121 14th Avenue, Vero Beach, Florida, at a cost of $1S. If any person decides to appeal any decision made on the above matter, he will need a record of the proceedings, and for such purposes,_ he may need to insure that -a verbatim record of the pro- ceedings is made, which record includes the testimony ini evidence on which the appeal is based. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ;OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA By: /s/ Patrick B. Lyons, Chairman Aug. 11, 23, 1981. THE PRO POSE OFUTURE - Visa" are de.9.atedas: LANG USE MAP AdrteYlwe.-la 4,nil - TheFutyre Lana uu M.P.{M."repl+l Part R.I.S. Stmodatut-2.Sa —%-1 of the Land Use Element or the earn—hen.". Threat +rets with." Tree Canner14re Plen for Ind.an R.vel Carol,, Irl auraose .1 t. t deYaiopod a MsIon a,I 1"lat.lra of reyMn/N1, def.pnateee.St.r.gaM reterel.ndYuanerm s•`�er eamm.retal had." ",brat land Yuf. Thee for tree "vet /wM1, loan. Thee i<tleiry en+, have 0* -.1 l 1red .1 anned patterns i -..de r.s,df.hal — eomMN<ul dr,triet1 W.fM. M. aasrn. — a ttus. Y101. 1MYitrN1 YMl .n1h1Yt.Pna1 Y,e,r ape th.n..ls, The aatltrel earwry al Ys.s —0 a sate-pr.serea.— Areas..9—it... I Ysel, eacarreyea tPGe.IeFMH,e Mtere. and area wan•mururea.us. . Perot. eo"sassettat andrndust-1 YM Yl.+ ufain resMen..I t+tld eN dg7rH11 .1. • + - are d.up"at.d a1 Nrete.rc 10(+bM,> wadee .•shown on the -P ev rout p "tatro" d.."— to .—a odate ahtatal.d dern+t Each Cla,s.hc+f.00l. M These are da.9-led As: _- add. 01—he, A ,Masai -be." or achvdt Low Dens,, 1 -to 2 —11. -1._ .2 , Shat shay tie dsq. .d M devaao ..shod Me ►Pty Damn, 2 - foaw+.nJrn ►a- g II• •-qef MMM mall The PropoW Fenne LAM MMtarh Danish I oM a..rrFaae - UM Map also def+p"ala. tha se".ra sat's- MM.Ya wnMry 2 • b 17 Mrtrecre te -- a, aaviroa"s.rttaRf a ed.hM YMs. I- - _ w.r-�. "- •. � _ _-- _. AW. 11.22. P"1._ THE CHAIRMAN INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT RATHER THAN REPEAT THE INTRODUCTORY REMARKS MADE LAST MEETING, MINUTES OF THE FIRST C.L.U.P. MEETING WOULD BE PASSED OUT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE NEW— COMERS. HE THEN INTRODUCED MEMBERS OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND PLANNING STAFF AND COMMISSION MEMBERS. HE FURTHER ANNOUNCED THAT IT IS THE INTENT TO HAVE THREE MEETINGS IN WHICH WE WILL TAKE THE COUNTY IN THIRDS AND ADDRESS THE SPECIFIC PROBLEMS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED, HOPEFULLY ON SEPTEMBER STH, 9TH AND 15TH. CHAIRMAN LYONS THEN INFORMED THE PUBLIC OF THE PROCEDURE THAT WILL BE FOLLOWED AS AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING; DDT 1 r11tDCC All those wishing tc ;)c, hea,'d will he ilivt ••_,:*.;-, t , filled out as they enter ttli' 1'oo.-,l. Rej;t-('SC+ `1 i of will be given 10 minutes to 5I,C3�, and individuai: rill given 5 minutes. P.epr•esentatives of groups ti•iill h !;+,trd i ;'.. tie will take a ten minjte break at 9 P.t^, at,;i ;i ; l at 10 P.M. We will indicate to the ,tublic that tn;)se wilo have not been heard at this meeting, will Le heard at the ne t one. It that is not sufficient, we vill schedule an additioril pijbli hearing. All the pubI iL cor,lm.-nts 4i 11 be noted and thecn;t;i�.sin ,I k i 11 answer those tha t requ i t e an i,nswer of terth( i els t of !'he public has been heard, arid not before. THE FIRST CARD CALLED WAS THAT OF JOHN LUTHER, AND IT WAS NOTED THAT THE CARD STATED HE WOULD NOT SPEAK. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED EDWARD SCHMITT. MR. SCHMITT, 3275 13TH ST., EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE COST OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT TO THE SMALL TAXPAYER WHEN THE BIG DEVELOPERS HAVE MADE THEIR PROFIT AND LEFT. HE STATED THAT THE COUNTY DOES NOT MAINTAIN THE ROAD HE LIVES ON, HE HAS NO STREET LIGHTS, NO SEWER AND NO CITY WATER THOUGH HE LIVES ONE BLOCK AWAY FROM THE CITY LIMITS. IN ADDITION, HIS REAL ESTATE TAXES HAVE RISEN 360% IN ONE YEAR. MR. SCHMITT CONTINUED THAT WHERE HE LIVES THERE WAS 30 ACRES OF PROPERTY WHICH WAS CUT UP INTO 1/2 ACRE PIECES -3- SEP 1 1981 Boa 47 PAcE312 S E P I 1981 80 47 AND THEY WERE ALLOWED TWO UNITS PER ACRE; 3/4 OF THIS LAND IS BUILT UP THIS WAY. THE NEW PLAN WOULD ALLOW 6 UNITS, AND HE WISHED THE BOARD TO CONSIDER WHERE THAT WOULD PUT THE PEOPLE ALREADY LIVING IN THIS AREA IF SOMEONE CAME IN AND PUT UP CONDOS. ATTORNEY MICHAEL O'HAIRE WAS CALLED AND CAME FORWARD REPRESENT- ING THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION. HE NOTED A NUMBER OF FORMAL PROTESTS FOR THE RECORD AS FOLLOWS SINCE HE BELIEVED IT LIKELY THESE PROCEEDINGS WILL BE REVIEWED: "THE ADVERTISED NOTICE FAILS TO COMPLY WITH FLORIDA STATUTES CHAPTER 163.3164 Sus. 16, 163.190 OF THE 1980 REVISIONS, AND 163.3181, ALL OF WHICH RELATE TO THE FORM OF NOTICE. THE NOTICE IS MISLEADING IN THAT THE TEXT OF THE NOTICE OMITS DENSITY CATEGORIES FOR THE MXD AREA, WHICH IS BASICALLY GIFFORD, AND THE MAP INDICATES FIXED DENSITIES WHILE THE TEXT SHOWS THAT DENSITIES ARE PERMITTED TO RANGE. FINALLY, ADVERTISEMENTS FOR TWO DIFFERENT DATES AND PLACES, TOGETHER WITH THE TIME LIMIT PLACED ON SPEAKERS BY THE CHAIRMAN AND THE CONTINUANCE FROM EVENING TO EVENING OF THESE SES SIONS AND FROM MONTH TO MONTH DEFEAT THE EXPRESSED STATUTORY REQUIREMENT OF THE FULLEST'POSSIBLE PUBLIC INPUT TO THE PROCEEDINGS$* MR. O'HAIRE CONTINUED THAT THERE ARE SERIOUS DEFICIENCIES IN THE ADVERTISED PLAN, AND THESE HAVE BEEN POINTED OUT BY THE TREASURE COAST PLANNING COUNCIL AND THE STATE OF FLORIDA THROUGH THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS. MR. O'HAIRE NOTED THAT NO MAP WAS SUBMITTED TO THE STATE SO THEY HAD NO IDEA OF WHAT THEY WERE REVIEWING, AND THE ONLY MAP AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC AGENCIES CONSIDERING THIS MATTER WAS THE MAP SUPPLIED BY HIS CLIENTS, WHICH AS FAR AS HE KNEW, WAS THE ONLY INTELLIGIBLE MAP THAT HAS BEEN SUPPLIED TO ANYONE. IN ADDITION, THE BARRIER ISLAND STUDY WAS NOT SUBMITTED TO THE STATE. ATTORNEY O'HAIRE STATED THAT IF THE ADVERTISED LAND USE PLAN IS ADOPTED, HE FELT THE COMMISSION IS PLAYING WITH THE PEOPLES LANDS AND THEIR LIVES BECAUSE WE HAVE NO INFORMATION ON FISCAL IMPACTS, AND THERE ARE TREMENDOUS QUESTIONS REGARDING FLOOD WATER, TRAFFIC IMPACTS, ETC. ATTORNEY O'HAIRE DISPUTED THE PLANNERS GROWTH PROJECTION FIGURE OF 130,000 WHILE THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION PROJECTS 600,000, AND DID NOT BELIEVE THE PLANNING DIRECTOR HAS BEEN IN THIS COUNTY LONG ENOUGH TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY OF ITS POPULATION INCREASE, WHICH HAS BEEN GEOMETRIC, NOT ARITHMATIC. HE FURTHER FELT THE PLAN GIVES THE PLANNING STAFF TOO MUCH DISCRETION, ESPECIALLY WITH THEIR HISTORY OF LARGE TURN OVER OF STAFF. ATTORNEY O'HAIRE STATED THAT THE PLAN SHOULD CONTROL GROWTH; WE SHOULD NOT PLAY CATCH-UP WITH SERVICES, AND THE ONLY SENSIBLE APPROACH TO AN UNKNOWN IS CAUTION. HE EMPHASIZED THAT HE WAS NOT SPEAKING FOR A MINORITY, BUT A MAJORITY AS THIS SAME POSITION IS TAKEN BY THE TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION, THE A.A.R.P., THE PELICAN ISLAND AUDUBON SOCIETY, AND HE HAS BEEN TOLD THERE ARE ABOUT 3j000 PETITIONS IN THEIR FAVOR. HE ASSUMED THAT THE COMMISSION WILL NOT PROCEED ON A "FATHER KNOWS BEST" BASIS AND INFORMED THE BOARD THAT IF THE PROPOSED PLAN IS ADOPTED AND THERE IS NO REFERENDUM, HIS INSTRUCTIONS FROM HIS CLIENTS ARE TO LITIGATE TO REQUIRE A REVIEW OF THE DATA THE FLORIDA STATUTES REQUIRE BEFORE THE PLAN CAN BE ADOPTED AND IN THE INTERIM, THEY WOULD ASK THAT ALL BUILDING PERMITS BE TERMINATED UNTIL THE COURTS CAN MAKE A DECISION. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED G. C. PRYOR WHO PASSED. ROBERT REIDER OF REEF ROAD STATED THAT IT IS OFFENSIVE TO HEAR THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE'S PSEUDO CONCERN FOR THE WORKING MAN AND TO HEAR THAT THE PROFESSIONALS WHO HAVE A HUGE FINANCIAL STAKE IN HIGH DENSITY APPROVE THE PLAN WITH THEIR NEWLY FORMED COALITION. THEY ARE THE SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS, AND THEIR COHORTS ARE CON- TRIBUTING TO THE RAPE OF FORT PIERCE. MR. REIDER THEN STATED THAT THE WORK OF THE PLANNERS IS SHODDY, AMATEURISH AND INCONSISTENT, CITING THE FACT THAT THEY FAILED TO INCLUDE THE BARRIER ISLAND STUDY WHEN SUBMITTING THE PLAN FOR REVIEW, NOTING THAT THE COMMUNITY IMPACT EVALUATION ORDINANCE HAS BEEN SENT BACK THREE TIMES FOR THEM TO DO THE JOB RIGHT, AND CONTINUING THAT AT THE LAST PLANNING AND ZONING MEETING, THE PLANNING STAFF DISPLAYED A MAP OF LAND BEING CONSIDERED FOR REZONING, WHICH WAS INACCURATE AND INCORRECT. WITH THEIR CREDIBILITY IN QUESTION, HE FELT WE CAN HARDLY BE RELAXED, AND HAVING DEVELOPERS, ETC., SAY THEY RECOGNIZE PROFESSIONALISM IS LIKE HAVING THE FOX GUARD THE CHICKEN COOP, MR. REIDER THEN PROCEEDED TO STATE THAT THE CHAIRMAN FORFEITED SEP 1 1981 eoo 47 PAGE 314 SEP 1 1951 Roc 47zD THE RESPECT OF A LARGE SEGMENT OF THE COMMUNITY AND OFFENDED MANY CITIZENS WHEN HE AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY, WITHOUT THE PRIOR KNOW- LEDGE OF HIS FELLOW COMMISSIONERS, MET PRIVATELY WITH ATTORNEY STEVE HENDERSON WHO REPRESENTS FLORIDA LAND CO., ONE OF THE BIGGEST DEVELOPERS OF THE NORTH BEACH TO DISCUSS DENSITIES IN THE ENVIRON- MENTALLY SENSITIVE JUNGLE TRAIL AREA, HE ASKED IF THE CHAIRMAN IS SO BULL-HEADED THAT HE IS TRYING TO COVER UP BY PAINTING THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION AS THE OPPONENT OF C.L.U.P, WHEN IN REALITY IT IS A LARGE BROAD BASED SEGMENT OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY WHICH IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE FUTURE OF OUR AREA, NOT JUST THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION MR. REIDER CONTINUED THAT THEY ARE NOT FIGHTING CONTROLLED AND DELIBERATE GROWTH, BUT SCARED AND WORRIED THAT WHAT HAS OCCURRED ELSEWHERE WILL HAPPEN HERE, AND SINCE COMMISSIONER LYONS, BIRD AND WODTKE REFUSE TO FEEL THE PULSE OF THE COMMUNITY, THEY SHOULD ALLOW THE PEOPLE TO HAVE A REFERENDUM. E. C. SCHROYER OF PONCE DE LEON CIRCLE STATED THAT HE WAS A PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER SPEAKING AS AN INDIVIDUAL. HE DISCUSSED THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION MAP WHICH SHOWS BUILD OUT OF 600,000 POPULATION, AND COMMENTED THAT WHILE THAT IS THE MAXIMUM AND NONE OF US EXPECT THAT WILL HAPPEN, IT HAS BEEN HIS EXPERIENCE THAT AREAS THAT HAVE KEPT A CONSERVATIVE APPROACH HAVE LASTED BETTER AND KEPT UP LONGER, REAL ESTATE PRICES HAVE HELD UP, ETC. PIR. SCHROYER BELIEVED WE HAVE EVERYTHING TO GAIN AND NOTHING TO LOSE BY HOLDING DOWN THE DENSITY AS PROPOSED BY THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION. PAUL O,HARGAN WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. GEORGE CHILDERS WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. ATTORNEY GEORGE HEATH REPORTED THAT HE ATTENDED MANY OF THE PLANNING AND ZONING MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS WHICH WENT ON NIGHT AFTER NIGHT UNTIL LATE INTO THE NIGHT, AND THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE 43 OPPORTUNITIES FOR ANY OF THE AROUSED AND CONCERNED CITIZENS TO HAVE ALL THE INPUT THEY DESIRED IN THE PLAN. HE FELT IT WOULD BE UTTERLY IMPOSSIBLE TO INFORM THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY REGARDING THE TESTIMONY OF EXPERTS AND MOUNTAIN OF DATA AND INPUT THAT WENT INTO THE MAKING UP OF THIS PLAN, AND HE, THEREFORE, FELT HAVING A REFERENDUM WOULD BE LIKE ASKING THE PUBLIC TO BE THE JUROR WHEN THEY HAVE HEARD ONLY THE CLOSING ARGUMENTS AND NOT ONE OUNCE OF EVIDENCE. HE URGED THE BOARD TO ADOPT THE PLAN AS PRESENTED OR ADOPT IT WITH CHANGES AND FULFILL THE DUTIES THEY WERE ELECTED TO CARRY OUT, ED SCHLITT INFORMED THOSE PRESENT THAT HE IS A REALTOR, PAST MEMBER OF THE COUNTY LONG RANGE PLANNING COMMITTEE, AND A FORMER CHAIRMAN OF THE EAST CENTRAL REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL, AND, IN ADDITION, HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN THIS COUNTY AND COULD REMEMBER WHEN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERSE WAS INVOLVED IN A BEAUTIFICATION PROGRAM WHICH MADE THIS COUNTY A SPECIAL PLACE TO LIVE. MR. SCHLITT FELT THIS COUNTY OWES A DEBT OF GRATITUDE TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION FOR KEEPING THIS COUNTY THE SPECIAL PLACE IT IS AND HE ALSO PAID TRIBUTE TO PLANNING AND ZONING AND COMMENTED THAT HE ATTENDED MANY OF THEIR MEETINGS WHERE EVERYONE WHO WISHED TO EXPRESS THEMSELVES HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO S0, THOUGH IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THERE NEVER COULD BE A PLAN EVERYONE WOULD AGREE WITH COMPLETELY, HE BELIEVED A CONSCIOUS EFFORT HAS BEEN MADE. MR. SCHLITT NOTED THAT, FOR INSTANCE, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF ROUTE 60, THERE IS A COMMERCIAL AREA BEING CHANGED TO MULTIPLE, WHICH HE WOULD LIKE TO SEE REMAIN COMMERCIAL BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE HIS OFFICE IS, BUT IF IT DOES NOT GO THAT WAY, HE IS WILLING TO LIVE WITH IT. HE EMPHASIZED THAT A GREAT DEAL OF THOUGHT AND EXPERIENCE HAS GONE INTO THIS PLAN. NEIL SHEELY OF OCEAN DRIVE YIELDED HIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO TOM SCHLITT REPRESENTING THE VERO BEACH .JAYCEES. TOM SCHLITT INFORMED THE COMMISSION THAT THE .JAYCEES AT THEIR LAST MEETING, HAD A ONE HOUR DISCUSSION ON THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTY, THIS ORGANIZATION, BY AND LARGE, IS MADE UP OF YOUNG MEN WHO WANT TO HAVE A FUTURE IN THIS COUNTY. HE STATED THAT THEY, AS A YOUNG MAN S SERVICE CLUB, FEEL THAT THIS PLAN HAS BEEN DEVELOPED IN THE BEST INTERESTS OF ALL IN THE COUNTY AND THEY ADOPTED A RESOLUTION TO ENDORSE THE COUNTY LAND USE PLAN. HE BELIEVED THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE HERE WHO OBVIOUSLY WOULD LIKE TO LIMIT THE COUNTY TO ZERO GROWTH, THE CHAIRMAN READ THE CARD OF ATTORNEY STEVE HENDERSON AND NOTED THAT HE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AT THE PREVIOUS MEETING. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED CHARLES GARRIS, WHO DID NOT ANSWER. SEP 1 1981 BOX 47 PAGE 31 SEP 1 1991 Bou 4 7 P4GE 317 DR. .JONES/ED SCHMUCKER DID NOT ANSWER WHEN CALLED. ROBERT MCFARLAND SPOKE REPRESENTING THE TAXPAYERS ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY. HE COMMENTED THAT AT THE LAST MEETING THE SPEAKERS SAID THE LITTLE PEOPLE DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOOD FOR THEM, ONLY THE GOVERNMENT DOES, AND THEY SAID ONLY THE NATIVES SHOULD MAKE A DECISION. HE STATED THAT THE NATIVES ARE GETTING A FREE RIDE FROM THE TAXES WE PAY. MR. MCFARLAND REPORTED THAT A SUMMARY OF THE ASSOCIATION'S POSITION WAS TRAMSMITTED TO EACH COMMISSIONER IN .JUNE AND HE WOULD REFER BRIEFLY TO IT TO CITE THE MAJOR THINGS WRONG WITH THE PLAN; (1) NO CONSIDERATION OF ECONOMIC PENALTIES IN LOCAL TAXATION AND COST OF LIVING; (L) ALLOWS POPULATION EXPLOSION TO TEN TIMES PRESENT VALUE AT BUILD -OUT; (3) 9 NEW INDUSTRIAL PARKS TO ENCOURAGE INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE COUNTY. MR. MCFARLAND THEN SPOKE OF THE DRASTIC CONSEQUENCES OF EXPENSION AND INDUSTRY ON COST OF LIVING AND WAY OF LIFE, RESULTING IN SHORTAGE OF WATER AND BALLOONING OF ITS COST; A HOUSING BOOM FROM POPULATION EXPLOSION THAT WILL DRIVE UP THE COST FOR THESE POOR WORKING MEN SOME HAVE BEEN WEEPING ABOUT; TRAFFIC JAMS, EX- PANSION OF ROADS, SCHOOLS, POLICE AND FIRE PROTECTION AND TOO MUCH INDUSTRY WHICH WILL HAVE AN ADVERSE AFFECT ON THE TOURIST TRADE. MR. MCFARLAND CLAIMED THAT MOST INDUSTRY BRINGS IN EMPLOYEES FROM THE OUTSIDE AND DOES NOT SOLVE COMMUNITY PROBLEMS, AND CITED DETROIT AS AN EXAMPLE. MR. MCFARLAND STATED THAT THE PROPOSED PLAN WILL ASSURE THAT OUR WAY OF LIFE WILL DISAPPEAR IN A DECADE OR TWO AND THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO WILL GAIN ARE THE DEVELOPERS, ETC. HE URGED THAT THE COMMISSION NOT ADOPT THE PLAN UNTIL ALL IS EVALUATED AND FELT IT IS THE DUTY OF THE COMMISSION TO HAVE A REFERENDUM AND LET THE "STUPID" CITIZENS VOTE BECAUSE THEY MAY JUST KNOW WHAT THEY WANT. ARTHUR RAPPOPORT WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. W. H. MCLAUGHLIN STATED THAT HE WHOLE HEARTEDLY SUPPORTED THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, AND HE WAS QUITE DISTURBED TO HAVE CHAIRMAN LYONS IN HIS PRINTED REMARKS, TAKE M. ISSUE WITH THE MAP DISTRIBUTED BY THIS ASSOCIATION AND SAY THAT YOU COULD NOT USE THAT MAP AND MAKE A MEANINGFUL ESTIMATE. HE URGED THAT THE COMMISSION LET THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTY DECIDE WHAT IS RIGHT FOR THE COUNTY. RONALD RATHBUN, NATIVE OF FLORIDA AND A REALTOR AND DEVELOPER IN THE COUNTY FOR 22 YEARS, WHO IS NOW DEVELOPING CASTAWAY COVE ON SOUTH Alk STATED THAT HE FELT (QUALIFIED TO SPEAK ON THE FUTURE OF VERO BEACH, AND HE WANTED HIS SONS TO BE ABLE TO LIVE AND WORK HERE._ MR. RATHBUN CONTINUED THAT OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS HIRED QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS TO PREPARE THE PLAN, AND HE WOULD URGE IT BE ADOPTED. HE EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THERE ARE UNINFORMED PEOPLE MISLEAD BY SCARE TACTICS; THERE IS NO WAY TO DEVELOP THIS COUNTY TO MAKE IT LIKE FORT LAUDERDALE. MR. RATHBUN POINTED OUT THAT THE DENSITY ALLOWED AT CASTAWAY COVE IS 4, BUT THEY ARE DEVELOPING IT AT 2, AND HE IS PROUD THAT THE COUNTY IS LOOKING AHEAD IN REGARD TO SEWER AND WATER, ETC., AND PROVIDING FOR ORDERLY GROWTH. NORMAN BADENHOP STATED THAT HE IS PRESIDENT OF THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION, BUT WILL SPEAK AS AN INDIVIDUAL BECAUSE OF THE LIMITING TIME PERIOD. HE STATED THAT HE HAS NO SPECIAL INTEREST LIKE THE DEVELOPERS AND PROFESSIONALS, ETC., AND MOVED HERE FROM NEW .JERSEY TO ESCAPE THE HORDES. .JUPITER, FLORIDA PROVED NOT MUCH BETTER, AND ITS POPULATION IS NOW DOUBLE. WHILE THERE, HE GOT A GOOD TASTE OF "CRACKER" POLITICS. VERO BEACH GAVE PROMISE OF REMAINING A DESIRABLE COMMUNITY, BUT LITTLE DID HE FORESEE THE EVENTS COMING TO PASS, MR. BADENHOP THEN STATED THAT HE ASKED MR. REVER WHETHER IT IS TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE TO PUT 600,000 IN THIS COUNTY UNDER THE PROPOSED PLAN - THE LAST PAGE OF THE PLAN STATES IT IS DESIGNED TO ACCOMODATE 130,000 - AND HE GOT MR. REVER TO ADMIT IT COULD HOLD UP TO 360,000, HE NOTED IT HAS BEEN IMPLIED THAT THOSE AGAINST THE PLAN WERE AGAINST THE WORKING PEOPLE; HE FELT THE WORKING PEOPLE ARENIT DOING BADLY, AND WHILE THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE MIGHT LEAD YOU TO BELIEVE THEY SPEAK FOR A UNITED FRONT, THEY DON T. HE BELIEVED THE PUBLIC HAS NOT BEEN ADEQUATELY INFORMED$ MR. BADENHOP STATED THAT WE MUST HAVE A.REFERENDUM AND NOT BE LIKE FORT PIERCE WHERE THE PEOPLE WERE TOTALLY IGNORED. SEP 1199 PAGE+� B©OK 47 8 SEP 1 1991 Bom' 4*7 PA4,19 FRANK DANCY NOTED THAT HE IS ONE OF THE CRACKERS EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT, AND HE WISHED TO OBJECT TO THE ZONING OF A SPECIFIC TRACT OF LAND LYING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF S.R. 510 WEST OF WABASSO ROAD, WHICH PROPERTY HAS BEEN IN THEIR FAMILY ALMOST 60 YEARS IN CITRUS GROVE. THIS LAND, WHICH ONCE WAS BORDERED BY RAW GROVE LAND, IS NOW BOUNDED ON THE NORTH BY THE SEBASTIAN HIGHLANDS DEVELOPMENT; WITH VERO LAKE ESTATES 1-1/2 MILES TO THE WEST WITH A DENSITY OF LD -1 OR 3 UNITS PER ACRE, AND LATERAL A 1-1/2 MILES TO THE EAST AT LD -2 OR 6 UNITS PER ACRE. THEIR 3 MILE STRIP RUNNING EAST AND WEST, IS ZONED RR OR 1 UNIT EVERY 2.5 ACRES, OR IF CHANGES ARE MADE AS PROPOSED BY THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION, IT WOULD BE 1 UNIT FOR EVERY 5 ACRES. MR. DANCY POINTED OUT THAT THIS AREA IS DEVELOPING RAPIDLY; EVENTUALLY URBAN PRESSURE WILL FORCE HIM OUT OF THE GROVE BUSINESS, AND HE IS CONCERNED ABOUT HIS CHILDREN MAKING A LIVING OUT OF THAT LAND WHEN THEY CAN NO LONGER USE IT FOR AGRICULTURE. HE URGED THE BOARD CONSIDER A HIGHER DENSITY FOR THIS PROPERTY. DEBORAH PALMER YIELDED HER TIME TO DAVID LAPHAM. DAVID LAPHAM REPORTED THAT THE ROSELAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION HAS ADOPTED TWO RESOLUTIONS: (1) THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION ADOPT AND USE THE INTERIM PLAN AS PROPOSED BY THE VERO BEACH CIVIC ASSOCIATION; (2) THAT AN ADDITIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF RR -1 WITH A LIMIT OF 1 UNIT PER ACRE BE ADOPTED AND APPLIED TO THAT PORTION OF ROSELAND COLORED PINK ON THE MAP SUBMITTED BY ROSELAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION AND THAT THE PORTION COLORED YELLOW BE LIMITED TO A MAXIMUM DENSITY OF 3 UNITS PER ACRE, REGARDLESS OF WHICH PLAN IS ADOPTED. MR. LAPHAM NOTED THAT THE 1 UNIT PER ACRE AREAS ARE ALREADY PLATTED IN ONE ACRE LOTS OR LARGER UNPLATTED TRACTS. SOME OF THE YELLOW IS PLATTED IN 50' LOTS AND HAS BEEN FOR YEARS, AND FOR PURPOSES OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, THE AREA CANNOT STAND ANY GREATER DENSITY UNTIL A CENTRAL WATER SYSTEM IS AVAILABLE. MR. LAPHAM STATED THAT THEIR ASSOCIATION DOES NOT OPPOSE GROWTH, BUT BELIEVES IT MUST BE PLANNED. HE CONTINUED THAT HE WAS BORN IN DADE COUNTY, AND SAW IT GROW FROM A BASICALLY RURAL COUNTY TO WHERE IT HAS THE AMENITIES OF CIVILIZATION, BUT IT ALSO HAS RAMPANT CRIME, HORRIBLE TRAFFIC FACILITIES, HORRIBLE POLLUTION, TERRIBLE TAXES, ETC. HE LEFT AS SOON AS HE WAS ABLE AND SELECTED INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, AND HE URGED THAT THE BOARD NOT CAUSE HIM TO EMIGRATE AGAIN. GORDON JOHNSTON WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. ATTORNEY ROBERT .JACKSON SPOKE REPRESENTING DR. .JONES AND MR. MURPHY WHO OWN 57 ACRES ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE INDIAN RIVER JUST SOUTH OF THE MAIN RELIEF CANAL. HE INFORMED THE BOARD THAT THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY HAS BEEN A YACHT BASIN FOR MANY YEARS AND WAS REZONED SOME YEARS AGO TO ALLOW A MARINA, THE DENSITIES BEING LOWERED AT THAT TIME FROM 15 UNITS PER ACRE TO 8. DURING MANY YEARS THIS PROPERTY WAS MD -1, THE SAME AS THE PLAN SHOWS FOR THE PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH, AND UP UNTIL THE LAST HEARING AND AFTER, THE PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT HAD RECOMMENDED THIS FOR MD -1, OR S UNITS PER ACRE WHICH IT IS TODAY, THE ZONING LINE WAS PULLED DOWN A MILE FROM THE NATURAL BARRIER OF THE NORTH RELIEF CANAL TO LINDSEY ROAD, AND THIS PROPERTY.WAS INCLUDED IN THE LD -1 CATEGORY, OR 3 UNITS PER ACRE. ALL OF THIS LAND IS NOW ABUTTED ON U.S. 1 BY MXD FOR 16 UNITS PER ACRE, AND AT THE BOTTOM IS THE MXD FOR THE GIFFORD AREA, AND ALSO MD -1. ATTORNEY .JACKSON DID NOT FEEL GOOD ZONING PRACTICE WOULD CALL FOR SUCH AN ABRUPT CHANGE BETWEEN DENSITIES, AND ASKED THAT THE BOARD GIVE DUE CONSIDERATION TO LEAVING THIS PROPERTY AT ITS PRESENT MD -1. ATTORNEY B. T. COOKSEY APPEARED REPRESENTING THREE INDIVIDUALS AND ONE GROUP OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIFIC COMMENTS ON THE LAND USE PLAN. HE NOTED THAT ATTORNEY GORDON .JOHNSTON, WHO COULD NOT BE PRESENT, HAD PLANNED TO MAKE A PRESENTATION FOR MR, HATALA, WHO OWNS PROPERTY IN THE SAME LOCATION JUST DISCUSSED BY ATTORNEY .JACKSON, AND ATTORNEY COOKSEY'S CLIENTS, MR. AND MRS. LUTHER OWN THE LAND IN BETWEEN THE HATALA LAND AND ATTORNEY JACKSON'S CLIENTS. THEY ALL CONCUR THAT TO CUT OFF THE MD -1 AT LINDSEY ROAD INSTEAD OF CARRYING IT UP TO THE NATURAL BARRIER OF THE NORTH RELIEF CANAL IS NOT WELL ADVISED AND REQUEST THAT THIS BE RECONSIDERED. ATTORNEY COOKSEY STATED THAT SEC0NDLY HE WAS REPRESENTING VIRGINIA WALKER RUSSELL AND EVA C. WALKER IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SEP 1 1981 sooX 47 PAGE 320 SEP 1 1991 WALKER-RUSSELL PROPERTY LYING;IN GOVERNMENT LOTS 1, 2 & 3, SECTION 2LE-32S-39E, ON THE EAST SHORE�OF THE INDIAN RIVER. THIS LAND HAS A LINE DRAWN DOWN THE EAST SIDE OF IT DESIGNATED ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE, AND ATTORNEY COOKSEY REQUESTED THE FOLLOWING LETTER TO THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT BE MADE A PART OF THE RECORD. "PURSUANT TO OUR CONFERENCE OF YESTERDAY, JULY 30, 1981, IN RE THE VIRGINIA WALKER RUSSELL RIVERFRONT LAND WHICH LIES JUST SOUTH OF THE NORTH RELIEF CANAL ON THE WEST SHORE OF THE INDIAN RIVER, MY UNDERSTANDING WITH YOU IS AS FOLLOWS: (1) THAT THE LINE SHOWN AS "ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE" IS AN UNDEFINED LINE HAVING NO DEPTH AND IS ONLY APPLICABLE WHERE SALT MARSH OR MANGROVE ACTUALLY EXISTS. (2) THERE HAS BEEN NO SURVEY OF SPECIFIC LANDS TO DETERMINE IF THEY ARE "ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE" AND EACH TRACT OF LAND WILL STAND ON ITS OWN MERITS. (3) THAT THE "ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE" DESIGNATION IS NOT DESIGNED TO APPLY TO ANY SPECIFIC LANDS AND DOES NOT HAVE ANY ADVERSE AFFECT ON THOSE LANDS UNLESS MARSH OR MANGROVE CONDITIONS ACTUALLY EXIST. 11 ATTORNEY COOKSEY NOTED THAT IN SHORT WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS THAT THIS ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE ORDER WAS PUT ON THE LAND WITHOUT ANY SURVEY, AND THEY WOULD LIKE CONSIDERATION TO TAKE THIS DESIGNA- TION OFF UNTIL THERE IS AN ADEQUATE SURVEY BASIS ON WHICH TO PREDICATE SUCH DESIGNATION. THIRDLY, ATTORNEY COOKSEY REPRESENTED INDIAN RIVER FLYING SERVICE - MESSRS. ORTH & LYSNE, OWNERS OF THE OLD HIBISCUS AIRPORT PROPERTY. THIS WAS FORMERLY AN 80 ACRE INDUSTRIAL TRACT WHEN IT WAS IN THE HIBISCUS AIRPORT; SUBSEQUENTLY THEY AGREED TO HAVE THE SOUTH SIDE REZONED TO RESIDENTIAL AND THEY RETAINED A 17 ACRE TRACT ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF 8TH STREET FOR A FUTURE CONVENIENCE SHOPPING CENTER FOR AREA RESIDENTS. UNDER THE APPLICABLE DESIGNA- TIONS IN THE TEXT OF THE LAND USE PLAN, THIS WILL COME UNDER NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL WHICH IS LIMITED TO 8 ACRES. THEY RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE BOARD GIVE CONSIDERATION TO EXPANDING THE DESIGNATION OF NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL TO INCLUDE A TRACT OF I S S S MORE THAN 8 ACRES. ATTORNEY COOKSEY ANNOUNCED THAT THE FOURTH GROUP HE REPRESENTS CONSISTS OF THE FOLLOWING GROVES OWNERS, OWNING APPROXIMATELY 458 ACRES IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE BARRIER ISLAND: J. V. D'ALBORA CO. LIER GROVES RYALL GROVES KENNEDY GROVES DEERFIELD GROVES COOPER -KENNEDY GROVES G. C. PRYOR GROVES SAM PRYOR GROVES WITH THE CONCURRENCE OF PELICAN ISLAND GROVES. ATTORNEY COOKSEY THEN WENT INTO GREAT DETAIL ABOUT THE SPECIFIC LANDS DESIGNATED AS AGRICULTURAL BY THE PROPERTY APPRAISER, WHICH ARE ZONED FOR RESIDENTIAL USE IN THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND EMPHASIZED THAT HIS CLIENTS ARE THE OWNERS OF THE ONLY LAND DESIGNATED AGRICULTURAL IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY LYING EAST OF THE LINE OF APPROXIMATELY RANGE LINE ROAD IN THE NORTHWEST QUADRANT OF THE BARRIER ISLAND, THEREFORE, HIS CLIENTS RESPECTFULLY REQUEST EQUAL TREATMENT AND ASK THAT THE BOARD GIVE CONSIDERATION TO CHANGING THEIR DESIGNATION FROM AN AGRICULTURAL FUTURE USE TO AN LD DESIGNATION. THE CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCED THAT IT WAS NOW 9:00 P.M. AND THERE WOULD BE A 10 MINUTE RECESS. THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RECONVENED AT 9:10 P.M. WITH THE SAME MEMBERS PRESENT. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED RAYMOND T. FERNALD, WHO DID NOT ANSWER. MARY .JEAN TODD OF WABASSO WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER, FRANK MANNINO WAS CALLED AND DELEGATED HIS TIME TO .JOHN AVERELL. JOHN AVERELL INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE OWNS A LOT ON U.S. 1 WHICH IS CURRENTLY ZONED C-lA, AND ACROSS THE STREET FROM HIS 1/2 ACRE LOT IS PROPERTY WHICH IS GOING TO BE INDUSTRIAL, HE CONTINUED THAT WHEN HE TALKED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING DEPARTMENT BEFORE PURCHASING THIS PROPERTY, HE WAS ERRONEOUSLY INFORMED THAT THE PLAN WOULD HAVE AN AFFECT ONLY ON DENSITY AND NOT ZONING. HE OBJECTED TO THE CONCEPT OF COMMERCIAL NODES ON U.S. 1, NOTING THAT THE VERY CHARACTERISTICS THAT MAKE THIS PROPERTY SUITABLE FOR COMMERCIAL MAKE IT UNSUITABLE FOR RESIDENTIAL, AND THE EFFECT OF A CHANGE TO RESIDENTIAL ZONING ON THESE SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZE LOTS ON U.S. 1 IS TANTAMOUNT TO CONDEMNATION, CLASS ACTION SUIT. HE TALKED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF A 17 BOOK7 FAGf�� BOX 47 SEP 1 1981 CHARLES DAVIS CAME BEFORE THE BOARD REPRESENTING THE VERO BEACH -INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF REALTORS. HE STATED THAT HE PERSONALLY RESENTED WHAT HE PERCEIVES TO BE THE CIVIC ASSOCIATION THREATENING THIS COMMISSION AND THROUGH THEM, THE CITIZENS OF THIS COUNTY WITH LITIGATION IF THEY DON'T GET THEIR OWN WAY, HE BELIEVED THIS IS UNFAIR AND A RATHER SELFISH POINT OF VIEW. SIR. DAVIS STATED THAT THE REALTORS SUPPORT THE PLAN AS IT HAS BEEN PRESENTED. IT IS A SERIOUS PLAN PREPARED BY PROFESSIONALS, WHICH RECOGNIZES THE FACT THAT ABOUT 120,000 PEOPLE WILL LIVE HERE IN THE YEAR 2000 AND ALLOWS A PROPER FLEXIBILITY WITH PROVISIONS FOR REVIEW AND CHANGE. MR. DAVIS CONTINUED THAT A GREAT DEAL OF WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE ON THE IMPLEMENTING OF THE ZONING, BUT HE BELIEVED THIS WORK SHOULD BE DONE AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE BASIC PLAN. HE STATED THAT THE REALTORS ARE WILLING TO WAIT TO DISCUSS PROBLEMS WITH SPECIFIC PROPERTIES AT A LATER DATE BECAUSE IF WE WAIT UNTIL A TIME WHEN EVERYONE `S OBJECTIONS HAVE BEEN SATISFIED, WE WILL NOT HAVE A PLAN. MR. DAVIS URGED ADOPTION OF THE PLAN AT THE EARLIEST POSSIBLE TIME. MICHAEL AVERELL WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. JORGE GONZALEZ, PRESIDENT OF THE MOORINGS, WAS CALLED NEXT. HE STATED THAT HE IS A DEVELOPER AND PROUD OF IT, AND ALTHOUGH HE CAN EMPATHIZE WITH SOME OF THE VIEWS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED TONIGHT, HE COULD NOT GO ALONG WITH ALL THE CRITICISM OF THE REALTORS AND THE COUNTY COMMISSION. HE POINTED OUT THAT IF IT WERENIT FOR THE REALTORS, DEVELOPERS, PLANNERS AND COUNTY COMMIS- SIONERS WHO HAVE WORKED TO HAVE THE COUNTY GROW IN AN ORDERLY MANNER OVER THE YEARS, THOSE MAKING THE CRITICISM MIGHT NOT BE HERE TONIGHT. MR. GONZALEZ CONTINUED THAT AS A 10 YEAR COUNTY RESIDENT AND A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE MOORINGS, HE ENDORSED THE LAND USE PLAN AS IT APPEARS TODAY. HE NOTED THAT THE PRIMARY RESERVA- TION TO THE PLAN APPEARS TO BE A FEAR OF INORDINATE GROWTH WHICH WOULD OVERTAX ALL OF OUR COUNTY SERVICES AND A FEELING THAT THE PLAN SHOULD BE DETERMINED BY THE MAJORITY. HE POINTED OUT THAT GROWTH DEPENDS ON THE AVAILABILITY OF SERVICES AND NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND, AND FELT THAT INSISTING ON A REFERENDUM IS NEITHER WISE NOR PRACTICAL SINCE THE PLAN RESULTS FROM THE WORK OF QUALIFIED PRO- FESSIONALS AND THE MAJORITY OF THE RESIDENTS HAD NEITHER THE TIME NOR THE KNOWLEDGE TO SUPPLY INPUT. MR. GONZALEZ THEN ASKED THE COUNTY COMMISSION TO GIVE SPECIFIC CONSIDERATION TO THE COMPLETION OF THE MOORINGS AND SUPPLIED THEM A DETAILED BACKGROUND OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT CARRIED ON IN THIS DEVELOPMENT SINCE 1968 WITH ONLY 10% OF THEIR LAND NOW REMAINING TO BE DEVELOPED. HE NOTED THAT UNDER THE PROPOSED PLAN, EVERY -CONDOMINIUM HOME IN THE MOORINGS WOULD -BECOME NON -CONFORMING. MR. GONZALEZ REQUESTED THAT HIS LETTER OF AUGUST 17TH ADDRESSED TO THE CHAIRMAN BE MADE PART OF THE RECORD, AND STATED THAT THIS DOES NOT DETRACT FROM THEIR ENDORSEMENT OF THE PLAN. SAID LETTER IS HEREBY MADE A PART OF THE RECORD. -15- BOOR 4 7 PAGE 324 SEP 1 1981 P E T I T I O N BEFORE THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS INDIAN RIVER COUNTY APPLICATION OF THE COMPREHENSIVE LAND USE PLAN TO THE MOORINGS SUBDIVISION AUGUST 18, 1981 s s s w Mr. Patrick B. Lyons, Chairman August 17, 1981 Board of County Commissioners 17 Sailfish Road Vero Beach, FL 32960 Dear Mr. Lyons: The proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan fails to address several questions of concern to The Moorings. As a result, the ef- fect of the Plan on the Company appears to be unfair and inequitable. We are, therefore, presenting this statement of our position and in- tentions and request that it be entered as a part of the record of proceedings for the public hearings on the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to be held on August 18 and September 1, 1981. HISTORY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE MOORINGS The Moorings Development Company, begun in Naples in 1957, has been working slowly and methodically since.1968, according to our own carefully formulated master land -use plan, to create a diversi- fied, high quality community along the south beach in Indian River County. To those familiar with the growth and development of The Moorings, it is apparent that we have spared neither effort nor resources to create an unique and beautiful community. More than twenty-two percent (22%) of our total available land area was committed to a golf course for the use and enjoyment of residents; a prime ocean -front building lot was deeded to our property owners for perpetual use as a community park and beach; and land was sacrificed for lagoon -like waterways, when subdivision planning practices and economic consider- ations in 1968 would have dictated that unimaginative straight -cut canals should have been utilized. (See table "D".) THE MOORINGS' CONFORMITY WITH 1975 LAND USE PLAN When the County adopted its first land use plan in 1975, our ex- isting development and our plans for the future were incorporated in SEP 1 1991 BOOK 47 PAGE 326 2125 WINDWARD M.FlACII, FLORIDA 32960 • '305-2:11-51:31 SEP 1 1981 Page Two Mr. Patrick Q. Lyons August 17, 1981 $Ott( 4 7 Put V 7 that plan. Subsequent to the adoption of that Comprehensive Plan, construction in The Moorings has proceeded according to our original scheme and in line with that Plan. We have developed Unit 4 and Unit 5 as single-family neighborhoods, built four condominiums as contemplated, and have begun the development of our commercial prop- erty with the construction of a sales office, yacht basin, and admin- istrative office building. Relying upon the County's 1975 Comprehensive Plan, and in ac- cordance with our original design, The Moorings has been preparing plans for the development of our remaining parcels of land. We have performed market studies and land use analyses to help assure the proper utilization of lot 55 in Unit 1 and lots 57 and 119 in Unit 2 and have progressed to the final stages of planning multi -family housing on both lots 55 and 119. Rather than rushing to submit hastily -conceived and ill-prepared plans for site plan review, however, we have proceeded in our usual methodical and carefully -studied manner to develop our plans for official consideration. These plans are now virtually ready for submission. THE MOORINGS' COMMERCIAL PROPERTY Some time ago local financial institutions began discussions with us about the possibility of their locating branch offices in our com- mercial development projected for lots 56 and 57 in Unit 2. We, there- fore, employed the services of a planning/architectural firm to propose a site design for that area. EFFECT ON THE MOORINGS OF LAND USE PLAN IN PRESENT FORM Now, the proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan would appear to be penalizing us for our deliberate and thoughtful development. Although commercial services are mandated for a project when there is sufficient client base, and although we have planned from the beginning of our development to incorporate a commercial area, we find that the proposed Plan does not contemplate nor designate a commercial area in The Moorings as did the 1975 Plan. The size of the so-called "neighborhood com- mercial" areas permitted in LD -1 is smaller than our combined commercial parcels, and the use contemplated for that designation does not coincide with the use we had planned. A designation of "community commercial", however, would satisfy our needs both for size and usage. In addition, the Plan seems to deny us the possibility of constructing multi -family housing on our remaining large parcels. Despite the fact that we are developing at approximately two units/acre, when one considers the total land area of The Moorings, the language of the proposed Comprehensive Land Use Plan does not permit that consideration. We could not, there- fore, build the units we propose for lots 55 and 119 within the para- meters of the LD1 designation. Page Three Mr. Patrick B. Lyons August 17, 1981 In fact, in its present form, the proposed Plan would not permit our residents in five condominiums to rebuild in the event of a catastrophe. Because The Moorings is a community which is already 88% to 90% complete, we believe that it is grossly unfair to apply this new Land Use Plan in a restrictive manner to our remaining property. Not only does the proposed Plan arbitrarily and unfairly damage the interests of The Moorings, but it also discriminates against a company which for more than 12 years has done everything in its power to enhance the quality of life in Indian River County. THE MOORINGS' REQUEST In order to be equitable to The Moorings Development Company, therefore, we request that you give favorable consideration to one of the two following alternatives: Alternative Number 1 a. Adapt the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to preserve the re- stricted commercial property for the uses we had intended by indicating a "community commercial" node designation for lots 56 and 57, and b. Adapt the Comprehensive Land Use Plan to preserve the remain- ing multi -family for the use we had intended (which density we were specifically granted by the Indian River County Board of Commissioners as recently as February ) by indicating MD -2 for lots 55 and 119. Alternative Number 2 Specify in the language of the Plan that the entire original land area of The Moorings is a single entity to which the LD -1 zoning is applied, allow density averaging, thus permitting us to develop lots 55 and 119 as multi -family and indicating a "community commercial" node designation for lots 56 and 57. CONCLUSION It should be emphasized that none of the many discussions we have had with members of the Planning and Zoning Department -and with members of the County Commission suggest that there is any intent to penalize SEP 1 1981 BOOK 47 PArx BOOK 47 PAGE 329 1 i9S1 Page Four Mr. Patrick B. Lyons August 17, 1981 The Moorings, but we believe that the language of the Comprehensive Land Use Plan should be altered so that no inadvertent damage is done our Company in the future. With 90% of The Moorings' original property already developed at a density well below that contemplated by the Comprehensive Land Use Plan, it appears unfair and unreasonably restraictive to impose the limitations of the Plan to our remaining property. Such an im- position singles out and grossly damages The Moorings after 12 years of work and achievement in enhancing and embellishing the Indian River Community. nce o`hge dn%2a 1 ez res idint JG:sz cc: William C. Wodtke, Jr. A. Grover Fletcher Don C. Scurlock, Jr. Dick Bird George Joe Collins, Jr. David M. Rever Neil A. Nelson PRESENT ZONING FOR LA GINALLY ACQUIRED BY THE MOORI AGRICUL SINGLE oil MULTIPLE COMMERCIAL B00?� 47 PAGE 330- rp- SEP 1 11. 8/17/81 '.47 fnE331 Land Remaining for Development & Sales 32* acres 12% of Salable Land - or 10% of Salable Land, Golf Course & Amenities BREAKDOWN OF MOORINGS ORIGINAL PROPERTY Total Land Purchased 539 acres Lagoon Like Waterway 110 acres 20% of total land 429 acres Available land net of waterways Streets 38 acres 21% of available land 341 acres Land - net of waterways and streets Golf Course & Amenities 75 acres 22% of land - net of waterways and streets 266 acres Salable land - net of Waterways, Streets, Golf and Amenities Land Sold 234 acres 88% of Salable Land Land Remaining for Development & Sales 32* acres 12% of Salable Land - or 10% of Salable Land, Golf Course & Amenities 8/17/81 page 2 LAND REMAINING FOR DEVELOPMENT AND SALES * Anchor 20 Lots lot 55 lot 56 lot 57 lot 119 Golf Course and Amenities MDC Remaining Land SEP 1 1991 boa 47 PACE 3,32 I PRESENT DENSITY ALLOWABLE ACTUAL ZONING OF PROPOSED UNITS UNDER RESIDENTI ZONING ACREAGE DENSITY SITE PLAN ZONING UNITS R1A 6.5 4.3 3.00 28 20 R2C 13 12.1 8.76 157 106 C lA 2.5 - - - - C lA 5 - - - - R3 4.8 15 11.46 72 55 31.8 257 181 75 .2 15 - 106.8 272 181 SEP 1 1991 boa 47 PACE 3,32 I SEP 1 1981 PRESENT ZONING FOR THE LAND REMAINING TO THE MOORINGS error rapt D Na T -sr -W �Ii1r,0�OW�1$ t rw The [Moorings , Boa 47r� AGRICULTURE SINGLE MULTIPLE COMMERCIAL KEN PANGBURN, A FULL TIME WORKING RESIDENT OF WABASSO, STATED THAT HE AND HIS WIFE HAVE PARTICIPATED AT PLANNING AND ZONING MEETINGS AND TRIED TO OFFER CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS AS THE PLAN WAS DEVELOPED. HE BELIEVED THERE WAS ONE THING THEY OMITTED TO SUGGEST PREVIOUSLY AND THAT IS THE NEED FOR AN flXD CORRIDOR IN THE WEST WABASSO AREA ALONG ROUTE 510. HE BELIEVED THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT IN THAT AREA WOULD EXCEED THE 8 ACRES ALLOWED AS A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL NODE, AND UNLESS THIS IS DESIGNATED MXD, IT WOULD RESULT IN A LOT OF NON -CONFORMITY. HE ALSO EXPRESSED CONCERN THAT THE U.S. 1 CORRIDOR UP TO SEBASTIAN REMAIN AT 16 RATHER THAN BE REDUCED TO LD -1. MR. PANGBURN COMMENTED THAT AN AD HAD APPEARED IN THE PRESS JOURNAL STATING THAT INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION WILL DO AWAY WITH OUR PRESENT WAY OF LIFE, AND HE DISAGREED WITH THE STATEMENT STRONGLY; HE DID NOT FEEL THE INDUSTRIAL ZONING IN THIS COUNTY SHOULD BE REDUCED ANY FURTHER. MR. PANGBURN URGED THAT THE PLAN BE ADOPTED AS PROPOSED, LEROY JOHNSON, SR., DID NOT ANSWER. FRANK DEJOIA REPORTED THAT HE LIVES IN ROSELAND ALONG THE SEBASTIAN RIVER AND WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A GENERAL ENDORSEMENT OF THE PROPOSAL PUT FORTH BY ROSELAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION WHICH RECOMMENDS LOWER DENSITIES IN GENERAL FOR THE ROSELAND AREA, SPEAKING AS AN INDIVIDUAL, MR. DE.JOIA WISHED TO CONCERN HIMSELF WITH A SPECIFIC AREA - THE LAND BETWEEN THE SEBASTIAN RIVER AND ROSELAND ROAD. THIS BEAUTIFUL AND UNIQUE, HEAVILY WOODED, THREE MILE STRIP CONTAINS DONALD MACDONALD PARK AND DALE WIMBROW PARK AND IS ALREADY DEVELOPED WITH HOMES BUILT ON 2, 4, 6 AND EVEN 8 ACRE TRACTS. MR. DEJOIA BELIEVED A NEW LAND USE CATEGORY OF 1 UNIT PER ACRE MAXIMUM IS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREA ON THIS STRIP AND PROTECT THE EXISTING HOMEOWNERS, AND HE REQUESTED THAT THE BOARD GIVE THIS CONSIDERATION. GEORGE KULCZYCKI WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. .JUDSON BARKER DISCUSSED A SPECIFIC AREA BETWEEN 58TH AND 66TH AVENUES NORTH OF ROUTE 60, HE DID NOT FEEL THIS 7,OOO ACRES SHOULD BE DEVELOPED AT 3 UNITS PER ACRE AS WOULD BE ALLOWED UNDER LD -1, ESPECIALLY IN LIGHT OF THE RECENT DROUGHT, AND SUGGESTED THAT A DENSITY OF NO MORE THAN 2 UNITS PER -ACRE BE ESTABLISHED FOR THIS SEP 1 1981 BQc 7 p4GE 3.4 _')c r BOOK 47 PAGE J, SEP 1 1981 LAND IN ORDER TO ALLOW THEM TO MAINTAIN A DECENT WATER TABLE AND HAVE SOME GREEN AREA. WILLIAM STEWART, ATTORNEY, CAME BEFORE THE BOARD REPRESENTING THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT. HE STATED THAT THE PLAN DESCRIBED A 13O ACRE HOSPITAL COMMERCIAL NODE OFF 37TH STREET AND BARBER AVENUE, AND DID NOT FEEL IT IS CLEAR WHETHER THE HOSPITAL PROPERTY IS INCLUDED OR WHETHER IT IS ELIGIBLE FOR INCLUSION IN THAT COMMERCIAL NODE. HE ASKED THAT THE LANGUAGE BE CLARIFIED IN THIS RESPECT. SIR. STEWART NOTED THAT IT APPEARS THERE WILL BE A LOT OF CHANGES IN THE PLAN AS A RESULT OF THESE PUBLIC HEARINGS, AND HE WOULD ASK THAT AMPLE TIME BE ALLOWED FOR PEOPLE TO REVIEW THE FINAL DOCUMENT AND THAT SOME TIME BE ALLOWED FOR PUBLIC COMMENT. PSR. STEWART WENT ON TO MAKE A PERSONAL COMMENT, NOTING THAT PEOPLE TEND TO TAKE EXTREME VIEWS AT PUBLIC HEARINGS, BUT HE BELIEVED THAT IF YOU AVERAGE IT OUT, THERE ACTUALLY IS NOT A RADICAL DIFFERENCE IN AIMS. HE DID NOT BELIEVE THE MECHANISM THAT WILL MEASURE GROWTH HAS BEEN ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED, HOWEVER, AND HE DID NOT FEEL THE ONE YEAR REVIEW IS ENOUGH, BUT FELT THERE SHOULD BE A CONTINUING PROCESS STRUCTURED BY THE COUNTY COMMISSION TO CONSTANTLY AND CONTINUALLY EVALUATE THE GROWTH AND SEE IF THE PROJECTIONS ARE INDEED ACCURATE. HE BELIEVED THAT SUCH STRUCTURE AND MECHANISM TO EVALUATE ACTUAL GROWTH IS REALLY ALMOST MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE PLAN ITSELF AND FELT IT SHOULD BE GIVEN A LOT OF CONSIDERATION. ED SMITH WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. LLOYD CLARK WAS CALLED AND DID NOT ANSWER. TOM ALDRICH INFORMED THE BOARD THAT HE CAME TO SIT AND LISTEN WITH NO INTENTION OF ADDRESSING THE MEETING UNTIL THIS GENTLEMAN GOT UP AND AT THE END OF HIS SPEECH SAID HE DID NOT THINK THE GENERAL PUBLIC WAS INTELLIGENT ENOUGH TO MAKE A DECISION ON THEIR OWN THROUGH A REFERENDUM. HE CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THE GENTLEMAN 11 DID NOT HAVE BOTH OARS IN THE WATER", BUT THEN ANOTHER GENTLEMAN SAID THE SAME THING. MR. ALDRICH FELT THE BOARD SHOULD AGREE THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC SHOWED A GREAT BIT OF COMMONSENSE AND KNOWLEDGE WHEN THEY ELECTED THE COMMISSIONERS, AND NOW THAT SAME PUBLIC IS ASKING THE BOARD TO LET THEM PROVE THAT THEY DO HAVE A LITTLE COMMON SENSE AND CAN MAKE A GOOD DECISION. CHAIRMAN LYONS CALLED THE LAST SPEAKER OF THE EVENING - ROGER L. COOPER. ROGER COOPER REPORTED THAT HE REPRESENTS THE ORCHID ISLAND HOME OWNERS ASSOCIATION; THEY DID NOT INTEND TO ADDRESS THE PLAN AS AN ENTITY, BUT HAD SOME ISSUES OF GRAVE CONCERN, MR. COOPER THEN READ A LETTER SETTING OUT THE UNANIMOUS FEELING OF THE ORCHID ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION, WHICH LETTER OBJECTED VERY STRONGLY TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF MARSH ISLAND LOCATED NORTH OF THE CAUSEWAY ACROSS FROM ORCHID ISLAND, INTO A MARINA ORIENTED CONDO- MINIUM PROJECT AS PROPOSED BY DEVELOPER DOYLE ROGERS. THEY STATED THAT THE MOST ALARMING ASPECT OF THE PROPOSAL IS THE WATER REQUIRE- MENT SINCE ORCHID ISLAND RESIDENTS ARE CURRENTLY DEPENDENT ON DEEP WELLS WHICH ARE ALREADY THREATENED WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF DRAWDOWN BY RIVERBEND, A VAST MULTIPLE UNIT PROJECT ON THE NORTH BEACH ACROSS THE RIVER FROM THEM. SEWAGE WAS ANOTHER MAJOR CONCERN, AND IT WAS NOTED THAT THE TRAFFIC GENERATED WOULD NECESSITATE A TRAFFIC LIGHT WHICH WOULD CREATE A CHOKE POINT, AN EXTREMELY UNDESIRABLE SITUATION ON THE ONLY ACCESS FROM U.S. 1 TO AIA BETWEEN MELBOURNE AND VERO BEACH. THE ORCHID ISLAND PROPERTY OWNERS ASSOCIATION FURTHER FELT THAT A MULTIPLE UNIT CONDOMINIUM PROJECT IN THIS AREA WOULD DEPRECIATE PROPERTY VALUES, INVALIDATE THE $12,500 STUDY RELATING TO TRAFFIC AND HURRICANE EVALUATION, AND LASTLY, VIOLATE THE BASIC NODAL CONCEPT OF THE C.L.U.P. BY THE ENCROACHMENT OF A MULTIPLE UNIT PROJECT IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS SPARSELY POPULATED SINGLE UNIT NODE. THEIR SECOND MAJOR CONCERN WAS THE APPEAL BY ATTORNEY HENDERSON REPRESENTING MRS. CLARA DALES AGAINST THE DESIGNATION OF THE SOUTH- ERN PORTION OF PINE ISLAND AS ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE, WHICH HE ALLEGED IMPLIED THE PROPERTY WAS NOT DEVELOPABLE AND IMPEDED ITS SALE, MR. COOPER DESCRIBED THIS LAND AS PRISTINE JUNGLE INHABITED WITH A LARGE AMOUNT OF WILDLIFE AND CONTAINING AREAS THAT ARE LOW AND FLOOD PRONE AND ENTIRELY SURROUNDED BY MANGROVES. IN ADDITION, IT HAS EXTREMELY LIMITED ACCESS, THE ASSOCIATION FELT THERE IS POSSIBLY POTENTIAL FOR RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT ON A -LIMITED SCALE, BUT ANYTHING MORE WOULD CREATE THE SAME PROBLEMS CITED IN THEIR SEP 1 1991 toe 47 'kr,€ 3 r 6 -?7- SEP 1 1981 7 PAc, 3 7 OBJECTION TO THE MARSH ISLAND PROPOSAL. THEY REQUESTED THAT THE DESIGNATION OF THIS PROPERTY SHOULD REMAIN ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSI- TIVE WITH THE OWNERS RESPONSIBLE TO PROVE WHAT AREAS, IF ANY, SHOULD BE REDESIGNATED. CHAIRMAN LYONS ASKED IF ANYONE ELSE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHED TO BE HEARD, NO ONE DID, AND HE THEN ASKED THE BOARD'S PERMISSION TO CONTINUE THIS PUBLIC HEARING IN THIS ROOM AT 7:30 P.M. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WILL TAKE NO MORE CARDS THAN THE ONES WE HAVE LEFT AT THIS TIME. MOTION WAS MADE BY COMMISSIONER WODTKE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER BIRD, TO CONTINUE THIS PUBLIC HEARING TO TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8TH AT 7:30 P.M. WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT WE WILL TAKE NO -FURTHER CARDS THAN THOSE PRESENTLY TURNED IN. COMMISSIONER FLETCHER DID NOT AGREE WITH NOT GETTING ANY MORE INPUT, AND CHAIRMAN LYONS EXPLAINED THAT THERE WILL BE INPUT AT THE TIME WE CONSIDER THE SPECIFICS; HE IS PROPOSING 3 MORE MEETINGS WHERE WE DIVIDE THE COUNTY INTO THIRDS AND WE WILL HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH THE SPECIFICS AT THAT TIME. THE CHAIRMAN CALLED FOR THE QUESTION. IT WAS VOTED ON AND CARRIED 4 TO 1 WITH COMMISSIONER:FLETCHER VOTING IN OPPOSITION. THE CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCED THAT THIS HEARING WILL BE CONTINUED UNTIL SEPTEMBER 81 1981, AT THE SENIOR HIGH AUDITORIUM AT 7:30 P.M. - /1'.. � �. -11. . ../ A ... .- �. I - - - CLER