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Comprehensive Plan Economic Development Element and industrial development. Generally, all of this land has access to the county water and sewer system, adequate transportation facilities, and other urban services. Building Availability/Suitability On economic development constraint is a lack of available industrial building space in Indian River County for new industries that want to relocate to the county. While there is sufficient available land for a new or existing business to build a structure to fit their needs, there are few vacant industrial buildings available for new businesses to occupy immediately. In the future, the county should encourage developers to build spec industrial buildings that can accommodate economic development prospects. Industrial/Warehouse Properties Currently, the county has a supply of smaller industrial sites within industrial areas and business parks. That can be considered to be an economic potential. Within these areas and parks, small businesses can build facilities relatively quickly. This is because approved and platted industrial/business parks have constructed roads, installed utilities and constructed retention areas. On the flip side, challenges will exist if a new large scale industrial user desires to locate to the County. Currently, there are a limited number of large development ready lots available. In addition, tall industrial buildings are limited by County Land Development Regulations. These are constraints that have the potential to exclude certain new industrial uses. For instance, the recently constructed CVS distribution center could not be built on another site within the County because of height regulations. Going forward, the County's policies should address the need for additional industrialibusiness parks that can accommodate large scale industrial development. Further, County policies should accommodate large scale industrial uses. In general, the best locations for large industrial/warehouse buildings are in close proximity to the County's Interstate 95 interchanges. This is because industrial uses require easy access to major transportation routes. Also, these areas are also somewhat removed from residential areas. Because uses within industrial/business/technology parks can vary, the county should encourage industrial/business/technology park developers to design future parks as planned development projects, whereby park uses can be regulated in such a way as to make the parks attractive to potential end users. Hospital Medical Areas While it is generally acknowledged that manufacturing uses bring quality high paying jobs to the community, the medical profession also brings high paying jobs. Similar to industrial, manufacturing, and research and development jobs, medical jobs can, in part, bring money into the Community Development Department Indian River County 38