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Based on the best available data, including the latest population projections, the county's current residential allocation ratio is: 96,029 — 51,502 = 44,527 67,690 — 51,502 = 16,188 Thus, the county's current RAR is: 44,527 / 16,188 = 2.75. With the current RAR of 2.75, the county's Future Land Use Map allows approximately 2.75 times the residential units needed to accommodate the unincorporated county's projected population growth by 2030. ➢ Decrease in RAR Since 1998, the county's RAR has decreased from ±4.62 to ±2.75. This is a reduction of approximately 41 % in just twelve years. While the RAR has decreased significantly, the county continues to have sufficient land designated for residential development to accommodate demand through 2030. With the current RAR of 2.75, the unincorporated county has nearly three times the amount of residentially designated land needed to accommodate the increase in the unincorporated county's population projected to occur between 2008 and 2030. Therefore, sufficient land and densities are provided by the county's Future Land Use Map to allow residential growth beyond 2030. Consequently, no new areas need to be designated for residential development, and no density increases are needed in areas already residentially designated. In 2007, the City of Fellsmere annexed more than 22,000 acres of agriculturally designated unincorporated county land. Under the county's comprehensive plan, most of that annexed land was designated residential with a maximum density of 1 residential unit per 10 acres. Recently, the City of Fellsmere initiated the process to redesignate 18,545 acres of that land to allow for 19,750 residential units. If, for example, the 18,545 acres of annexed agricultural land were developed in the unincorporated county at 1 unit per acre, the county's RAR would increase from 2.75 to 3.90, meaning that nearly four times more residential land would be available than needed to accommodate the county's projected 2030 population. Non-residential Besides providing sufficient land area to accommodate the future population, the county must also provide sufficient area for non-residential land uses. In terms of methodology, the 2007 ratio of population to acres of non-residential land use was used to project the amount of non- residential land needed to accommodate the 2030 population. This method assumes that the land use intensity of non-residential development will remain constant. Just as the county's Comprehensive Plan limits residential development intensity, the plan also limits the intensity of development for areas designated as commercial/industrial. Like most local governments, Indian River County uses density, usually reported in units/acre, as its measure of residential land use intensity. For measuring non-residential land use intensity, Future Land Use Element 74