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41 <br />• <br />Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element <br />natural values, and in recognition of the public interest in encouraging the conservation of <br />plants and animals associated with these vegetation communities. The county shall <br />encourage the conservation of xeric scrub and coastal/tropical vegetative communities by <br />establishing density transfer and cluster development incentive land use regulations to <br />apply to these environmentally important areas. <br />Policy 6.12: In accordance with LDR Chapter 929, the county shall continue to require <br />development projects five (5) acres or larger, excluding bona fide agricultural operations, <br />to preserve a minimum of 15 percent, or ten (10) percent if preserved in a non linear, <br />of the total acreage of native upland area of the project site. The <br />upland set-aside area shall be overlain with a conservation easement dedicated in <br />perpetuity to Indian River County. The following upland ecological communities <br />described in this element shall be subject to the native upland set-aside requirement <br />➢ Coastal strand, including dune vegetation; <br />➢ Coastal tropical hammocks; <br />➢ South Florida flatwoods, including pine flatwoods and dry prairies; <br />➢ Xeric scrub, including sand pine scrub; <br />➢ Cabbage palm hammocks; and, <br />➢ Upland hardwood hammocks <br />Where on-site preservation of the native upland communities is not feasible, the county <br />shall, as gra last alternatives shall -accept a fee -in -lieu payment The fee -in -lieu payment <br />shall be determined by the following formula: the current assessed based on the current <br />"per -acre" fair market appraised value of one (1) acre of the project site multiplied by the <br />number acres that would have been preserved based -en under the 15 percent set-aside <br />requirement Fee -in -lieu payments shall be paid prior to issuance of a land development <br />permit, and shall be used to acquire comparable native habitat preserve areas and or to <br />manage such lands. <br />Policy 6.13: The county shall continue to prohibit the disturbance of dune vegetation <br />oceanward of the county dune stabilization setback line, with the exception of dune <br />walkover construction and other similar minor structures that may be allowed subject to <br />approval from the FDEP Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems <br />Indian River County Conservation Element Page 102 <br />Supplement # _ Ordinance #2005- Adopted 2005 Exhibit A Page <br />