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ORDINANCE NO. 99- 13 AN ORDINANCE OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA AMENDING THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDRS) CHANGING THE LIST OF PERMITTED USES WITHIN THE MED (MEDICAL) ZONING DISTRICT, AND AMENDING THE FOLLOWING CHAPTERS OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDRS): CHAPTER 901, DEFINITIONS; CHAPTER 911, ZONING; CHAPTER 912, SINGLE-FAMILY DEVELOPMENT; CHAPTER 913, SUBDIVISIONS AND PLATS; CHAPTER 917, ACCESSORY USES AND STRUCTURES; CHAPTER 934, EXCAVATION AND MINING; CHAPTER 952, TRAFFIC; AND CHAPTER 971, REGULATIONS FOR SPECIFIC LAND USE CRITERIA; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF CONFLICTING PROVISIONS, CODIFICATION, SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY, FLORIDA THAT THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDRS) BE AMENDED AS FOLLOWS: 1. Murphy Deed Reservations: definitions and setback requirements relating to Murphy Deed Reservations. The following definitions of Chapter 901 are hereby modified or established as follows: 111. MurphyDeed Reservation • rights reserved by the State of Florida under the 1937 Murphy Act for use of properties for public right-of-way purposes 2. Right -of -Way: a strip of land dedicated, deeded, used, or to be used for a street, alley, walkway, boulevard, utility installations, drainage facility, access for ingress or egress, or other purpose by the public, certain designated individuals, or governing bodies. Includes Murphy Deed Reservations. 3. Setback: the minimum horizontal distance between the front, rear or side lines of the lot and the front, rear or side lines of the building including porches, carports, and accessory uses subject to yard encroachment provisions of Chapter 911, Zoning. However, front yard setbacks shall be measured from the right -of wayl, which includes Murphy Deed Reservations. For flag lots, the front yard setback shall be measured from the line where the majority of the lot area meets the narrow strip of land that connects the lot to the road. right-of-way. 4. Yard, front: on, interior lots the yard being the minimum horizontal distance between the structure and the street right -of --way or Murnhy Deed Reservation line. On multi - frontage lots (including corner lots) all yards which abut a street right -of --way or Murphy Deed Reservatio'are consi ndered front yards, with the following exception: For parcels adjacent to subdivision street rights -of --way, where the parcel is separated from the subdivision street by landscape improvements required by the subdivision ordinance and where the parcel cannot be accessed from the subdivision street, the portion of the parcel adjacent to the right-of-way shall be treated as a side yard where a side yard would exist, and a rear yard where a rear yard would exist, absent the right-of-way. On double frontage lots having frontage on opposite sides of the lot or parcel, the yard abutting the street with the lower functional classification as depicted on the county's thoroughfare plan map shall be the front yard. If both streets have the same functional classification, the yard adjacent to the front lot line having the shortest dimension shall be the front yard. Coding: Words in strip type' are deletions from existing law. Words underlined are additions. SrCGr/eS Sen re 5Ti9i✓ 13G//NJ -C 0 99