1,500 to 1,800 square foot, two-bedrooms, nice kitchen, and easy flow one-story buildings. He
stated their target demographic will be a lot of young engineers working out at the Space
Center, just out of college; it is going to be a nice place to live with the Space Center being right
down the street; also his kids, his sister’s kids, and his friend’s kids are getting out of college
and they need a place to live while they are saving their money to buy a house here in Merritt
Island; he does not want them to leave Merritt Island; they can stay there, as there are not a lot
of rentals; and one of the authors of these comments puts in here a multi-family use may be
considered transitional from North Courtenay Boulevard to the single-family residence to the
west. He mentioned where he is at on State Road 3, it has business, commercial,
neighborhood commercial, and directly across the street from him is a 75-acre mobile home
park; everywhere he stands on his property he can see mobile homes; it is right there, that is
his neighborhood; and if it is looked at as a transitional space from high-density mobile home
park, RU-2-4 is considered low density. He described high density mobile home park, some
beautiful townhouses or duplexes, and then they flow into the single-family residential to the
west; it is a nice transition and it works; he asked if what he is trying to do compatible with the
surrounding neighborhood; he stated the answer is yes; he is in there with the business, the
commercial and the mobile home park; and that is his neighborhood, duplexes fit right in. He
continued by asking if they look at this map, which is the St. Johns River Water Management
District (SJRWMD), Wetlands Map, the one with the green line right down the middle, it is
interesting that two maps right next to each other, this is where the wetlands are now and this is
where the wetlands were, or want to be, due to the nature of where it is at; this is the natural
flow; he had the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, the Department of Environmental Protection in
conjunction with the SJRWMD, Brevard County Natural Resources Management, and he has
had them all out on that site; they walked the site and they demarked the wetlands; as soon as
they did that, later that day or the next day, he had his surveyor out there, they marked it, and it
has got a raised seal right here; and,however, these were done in 2013. He stated he thinks
everyone knows it is only good for five years, which is a lot of money and five years it is out;
and if one were to look at this map, it is really close, they can look at it and see his property that
about the back third is wetlands; when he looks at this map, the white area is his buildable
area, and the green area has wetlands; he does not want to do anything in the wetlands or
want to touch them; he will just turn his back and focus on the area that he has as his buildable
space, in fact, this green area could really be considered a natural barrier to the single-family
residential to the west; if one stands there, one would not see those houses as it is too thick
with the peppertrees, he cannot see them, and they cannot see him; no matter what he builds
there, they will not be able to see it; he guarantees this as the peppertrees are 30 foot tall;
there is 200 foot of them and he cannot even walk to the back of the property, even with a
chainsaw; that is really the end of his deal, but this is their third meeting; they have been
through this and there are a lot of concerns from the other property owners about water; and
the Board will hear from a lot of these people that live on Deanna Court, whose houses are built
in the water, that are now concerned about water. He stated when it comes to stormwater
runoff, he is not asking for any deviations for stormwater management; he fully intends to
comply with the County’s stormwater management and that process takes place during site
plan and building plan approval; they are going to fully comply with stormwater management,
no exceptions; the only other thing that has come up in these meetings is entrances onto State
Road 3; for some reason, in both of the other meetings, a lot of the other homeowners said he
only has one entrance on to State Road 3, there are two entrances on to State Road 3 with
40-foot culverts; and he opened up both gates for the last three weeks prior to this meeting,
hoping that some of these people would see that there are two entrances, for whatever that is
worth, maybe one is going to be coming into the property and one is leaving the property, it has
a nice easy flow with State Road 3, so it is a benefit having two existing entrances; hopefully
the Board can see where they are consistent with the Comprehensive Plan, they are definitely
compatible with the neighborhood right there on State Road 3; he asked the Board to approve
them, as he cannot stay in AU anymore, and to move him right over to RU-2-4; and he asked if
his wife could say a couple things.
