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Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element Policy 6.9: The county shall, continue to protect all significant groupings of the following vegetative communities: xeric scrub, coastal strand, and coastal/tropical hammock. These native upland vegetative communities shall be preserved and protected through fee simple acquisition, the establishment of conservation easements under LDR Chapter 929 - Upland Habitat Protection, and by enforcing LDR Chapter 927 - Tree Protection and Land Clearing. Poligy 6.10: The county shall utilize G.I.S. computer mapping data of vegetative communities, imperiled species, wetlands, cultural resources and other similar available environmental data in the evaluation and regulation of land development activities. Policy 6.11: Undeveloped tracts of xeric scrub and coastal/tropical hammocks 5 acres or larger shall be deemed environmentally important, in recognition of their scarcity and natural values, and in recognition of the public interest in encouraging the conservation of plants and animals associated with these vegetation communities. The county shall encourage the conservation of xeric scrub and coastal/tropical vegetative communities by establishing density transfer and cluster development incentive land use regulations to apply to these environmentally important areas. Policy 6.12: In accordance with LDR Chapter 929, the county shall continue to require development projects five (5) acres or larger, excluding bona fide agricultural operations, to preserve a minimum of 15 percent of the total acreage of native upland area of the project site. The upland set-aside area shall be overlain with a conservation easement dedicated in perpetuity to Indian River County. The following upland ecological communities described in this element shall be subject to the native upland set-aside requirement: ➢ Coastal strand, including dune vegetation; ➢ Coastal tropical hammocks; ➢ South Florida flatwoods, including pine flatwoods and dry prairies; ➢ Xeric scrub, including sand pine scrub; ➢ . Cabbage palm hammocks; and ➢ Upland hardwood hammocks. Where on-site preservation of the native upland communities is not feasible, the county shall, as a last alternative, accept a fee -in -lieu payment. The fee -in -lieu payment shall be based on the current "per -acre" fair market appraised value of the project site multiplied by the number acres that would have been preserved under the 15 percent set-aside requirement. Fee -in -lieu Community Development Department Indian River County 132