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comprehensive plan amendment process. Not only will the procedures serve as a review guide for the staff; they will also provide potential applicants for plan amendments with -a specific delineation of the review process. Included as part of the draft amendment procedures is a proposed fee schedule for comprehensive plan amendment requests. Since one of the three types of amendments involves a mandatory review and update of the Plan by the County, no fee was set for that type of amendment. For both types of amendments involving the future land use element of the Plan, however, fees have been proposed. The basis for developing these fees was the existing County fee structure as well as time and cost estimates for reviewing and processing amendment requests. At their meeting of April 14, 1983, the Planning and Zoning Commission considered the draft Comprehensive Plan Amendment Procedures and the proposed fee schedule. Based upon their review, the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended that the Board of County Commissioners adopt the Comprehensive Plan Amendment Procedures and the fee schedule as proposed. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The comprehensive plan amendment review procedures, as proposed, reflect the requirements of Chapter 163.3191, Florida Statutes. By mandating reviews, public notice, public hearings, and other actions, state law reduces the County's alternatives for developing amendment procedures., There are, however, alternatives for developing a fee structure for amendment requests. Since the Local Government Comprehensive Planning Act does not address plan amendment fees, the County is not required to adopt fees. To recover a portion of the County's costs for reviewing proposed plan amendments, however, the staff has developed a fee schedule based uponestimates of staff time and costs associated with amendment request reviews and also based upon existing fees charged by the County for comparable review activities. Varying by the amount of land area involved in the amendment request, the proposed fees only reflect a part of the County's cost, but they differentiate between amendments for large and small sites and should reduce frivolous amendment requests. While the staff supports the fee structure proposed, otheF alternatives range from no fees to fees which would reflect a higher percentage of the County's cost to review and process proposed amendments. It is the staff's opinion that the draft amendment procedures meet the applicable state requirements, correspond to Comprehensive Plan mandates, and establish an adequate guide for staff review of amendment requests. RECOMMENDATION The staff recommends that the draft Comprehensive Plan Amendment Procedures and the proposed fee schedule be adopted by the Board of County Commissioners. Mr. Keating went into considerable detail explaining how staff arrived at these procedures and suggested fees and the factors considered in arriving at them. He noted that the Planning & Zoning Commission has reviewed the amendment proced- ures proposal and fee schedule and recommended adoption of both. 97 MAY 41983 � d