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r ORDINANCE 2006- 005 LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDRS) RELATING TO NATIVE UPLAND PLANK COMMUNITY CONSERVATION AREAS; CLARIFYING THAT A FEE -IN -LIEU OF UPLAND SET- ASIDE SHALL BE CONSIDERED ONLY AS A LAST ALTERNATIVE; REVISING THE FEE -IN - LIEU OF SET-ASIDE CALCULATION FROM TAX -ASSESSED VALUE TO FAIR -MARKET VALUE; REQUIRING THAT UPLAND SET -ASIDES BE COMMON- AREAS; AND PROVIDING FOR REPEAL . OF CONFLICTING PROVISIONS, CODIFICATION, SEVERABILITY AND EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE INDIAN RIVER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS THAT THE COUNTY LAND DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS (LDRS) BE AMENDED AS FOLLOWS: 1. SECTION 929.05, UPLAND NATIVE PLANT COMMUNITY CONSERVATION AREAS, IS HEREBY AMENDED TO READ AS FOLLOWS. Section 929.05. Upland native plant community conservation areas. (1) Development projects on property five (5) acres or larger, including single-family residential development, and subdivisions, affidavits of exemption, site plans and planned development projects, but excluding agricultural operations outside of the urban service area and individual single-family home site parcels, shall set-aside, through selective clearing and micro -siting of buildings and construction activities, a minimum of fifteen (15) percent of the total cumulative acreage of native plant communities which occur on-site (including but not limited to flatwoods, xeric scrub, and coastal/tropical hammock). , Such set-aside areas shall be preserved in viable condition with intact canopy, understory, and ground cover, and shall be protected by the filing of conservation easements. The preserved set-aside area(s) shall be allowed as credit toward other county land development regulations such as landscape, buffer, and open space requirements. and~, ^ra Seth eke .~refneat (2) Native upland ant community set-aside areas shall meet the following criteria: Native have horizontal dimensions less than 50 feet. In cases where a set-aside is (a) upland set -asides shall no be contiguous with another conservation area the dimensions of the other conservation area may credited towards the minimum 50 -foot horizontal dimension requirement. (b) Native upland set -asides shall be conserved as common areas on separate tracts and shall be depicted as such on approved plats and affidavit of exemption drawings. Conserved upland set-aside areas relatingto o site plan (non -plat) projects must be depicted and labeled on the site plan but are not required to be platted. The conservation tracts shall be posted with boundary signs no larger than one square -foot in size at intervals no greater than 400 feet along the perimeter of the tract. The boundary signs shall identify the tract as a conservation area. (c) Conservation tracts bordering single-family residential lots shall be fenced along the tract boundary abutting said lots. Said fencing shall be of a type and design (such as split -rail) to minimize impedance to wildlife movement. (d) The applicant shall provide a management plan for the set-aside area to ensure long-term viability of preserved or created habitat as the case may be The management plan shall address nuisance invasive plant - Page 1 of 4 - Underline depicts addition of text; strike threugh depicts deletion of text. C %r.,m rr_ily Dc.el )pmeut t„ers�RO LAND�l DR'AYA) sc.i asiac rev%N itire !rpi one a ord Lira .do