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Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element 3. water quality protection, such as whether or not such lands buffer natural surface waters or preserve aquifer recharge areas; 4. management considerations, such as feasible multiple public use of the property, compatible with resource conservation; 5. financial considerations, such as funding availability; 6. market considerations; 7. social and economic values, such as historic preservation, environmental education, recreation, and scenic aspects; 8. agriculture protection, such as preservation of active agricultural use lands through the acquisition of agriculture conservation easements; and 9. the need for acquisition to protect the natural community where appropriate protection cannot be afforded by land development regulations. b. The land acquisition guide shall identify methods of land acquisition to be considered that may be appropriate, depending on any given proposal, including purchase, donation, exchange, installment sale, and use of intermediaries (e.g. Natural Conservancy). C. Land acquisition shall be considered only after all "non -acquisition" options for environmentally sensitive or environmentally important lands protection have been explored and rejected as inappropriate, including easements, rental (lease), withdrawal (public domain), zoning, acquisition by other entities, cooperative agreement, permit restrictions, administrative regulation, and "no action". Polio The county shall require the preservation of native vegetative communities on county -owned land to the maximum extent feasible, unless otherwise in the public interest. Policy 6.6: The county shall continue to encourage the preservation of mature trees on land development sites by providing landscape credit for the on-site preservation of mature trees - and trees of special concern, and by allowing a reduction in the amount of required parking for the purpose of preserving existing mature trees on site. Policy 6_7: As specific conditions of the site plan approval process, the county shall require the removal of all nuisance exotic vegetation from new development sites, and require that new development sites remain free of nuisance exotic vegetation. Furthermore, the county shall continue to prohibit the planting and sale of nuisance exotic vegetation. Policy 6.8: The county shall continue to require the removal of and restrict the planting of nuisance exotic vegetation identified on the Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council's (FLEPPC's) Category I list. Community Development Department Indian River County 131