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Interlocal Service Boundary Agreement (ISBA) An ISBA is an agreement authorized by Florida Statutes Chapter 171, Part II. The intent of an ISBA is to promote intergovernmental coordination in planning and to address issues such as service delivery and municipal annexations. While adoption of an ISBA can be for a term of up to 20 years, periodic review and renegotiation of an ISBA are required. If structured properly, an ISBA can be a mechanism to regulate land use changes, including height and density, within annexed areas. With an ISBA, the influence of each jurisdiction over land use changes is entirely dependent on the terms and processes agreed to by the jurisdictions signing the ISBA. Through an ISBA, jurisdictions can identify and agree to future growth limits of each jurisdiction. Those future growth limits can be established through the creation of municipal annexation reserve areas. The reserve areas can include land in an unincorporated county urban service area and land outside an unincorporated county urban service area. Since the summer of 2007, the county and the municipalities in the county have been working on an ISBA as the preferred option for managing growth on a countywide basis. At this time, however, the ISBA has not been finalized. Initially, the draft Indian River County ISBA reflected municipal annexation reserve areas covering a substantial amount of the non - conservation, non -urban service area unincorporated portion of the county. With that scenario, much of the county's agricultural area would have eventually been annexed and then subject to municipal land use regulation. As the ISBA process continued, municipal annexation reserve areas were reduced in size. With the smaller annexation reserve areas, there is now more non -urban service area remaining under the county's land use regulatory jurisdiction. As referenced in the draft ISBA document, the county's new town allowance is identified as an alternative development option for non -urban service area unincorporated county land. Among the benefits of the proposed ISBA is a limitation on the amount of land available for municipal annexations. Because of the overall possible benefits, the county should continue to work with the municipalities within the county to adopt an ISBA. NPw Tnwnc To retain rural lands, the Committee for a Sustainable Treasure Coast recommends planning for new towns. That is something that the county has done in the past. Since 1990, the county has provided for the establishment of new towns outside the urban service area. That allowance requires that new towns be compact, self-contained projects, having a mix of commercial and residential uses with traditional neighborhood design features, and located on large sites surrounded by agricultural or natural land greenbelts. Rather than limit development to the Future Land Use Element 113