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Comprehensive Plan Conservation Element <br />OBJECTIVE 10 Soil Erosion <br />Through 2025, there will be no adverse off-site soil erosion impacts associated with land <br />development and agricultural activities and beach shoreline systems will be stabilized. <br />Policy 10.1: Consistent with Policy 7.9 of the Stormwater Management Sub -element, the <br />county, in cooperation with the Indian River Soil and Water Conservation District <br />(IRSWCD), shall provide technical assistance to agricultural operations in implementing <br />conservation plans and non-structural best management practices (BMPs). Non-structural <br />BMPs, as defined by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (MRCS), include: land use <br />planning, preservation of wetlands and floodplains, education, and erosion control methods. <br />Polio The county shall enforce its tree protection ordinance to ensure that wind and <br />water erosion associated with urban land -clearing activities is minimized through the use of <br />erosion control techniques such as temporary seeding and mulching, sodding, diversion <br />berms, interceptor ditches, sediment barriers, sediment basins, and related appurtenances or <br />devices. A Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan (SWPPP) addressing erosion control shall <br />be required for alldevelopmentprojects. <br />Policy 10.3: The county shall undertake beach shoreline stabilization activities including: <br />➢ monitoring of the experimental Pre -fabricated Erosion Protection ("PEP") reef to <br />determine the need for supplemental beach stabilization, such as sand renourishment; <br />➢ determining a funding source for public beach stabilization projects, including <br />consideration of establishing a beach taxing district; <br />➢ coordinating with the Sebastian Inlet Tax District and the City of Vero Beach on <br />beach restoration projects; and <br />➢ continuing meetings of a beach preservation and restoration advisory committee <br />concerning recommendations on related issues. <br />Policy 10A To protect existing dune communities and reduce shoreline soil erosion, the <br />county shall continue to prohibit development encroachment oceanward of the county dune <br />_stabilization setback line (DSSL), with the exception of dune walkovers and other similar <br />minor structures subject to approval by the FDEP Bureau of Beaches and Coastal Systems. <br />By 2012, the county will evaluate the location of the DSSL and will consider relocating the <br />DSSL westward. <br />Community Development Department Indian River County 138 <br />