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DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS Last year, the Florida legislature enacted the -Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Act. Among other requirements, this act mandated local governments within the state to develop comprehensive plans meeting certain minimum criteria and to adopt these plans by specified dates. The act also established a new procedure for adopting and amending local plans. Since adoption of the act, the state Department of Community Affairs has drafted several rules implementing various aspects of the act. On February 14, 1986, DCA adopted a rule estab- lishing minimum criteria for local plans. Currently undergoing public hearing is a rule to set time limits for adoption of plans by local governments; Indian River County must submit its completed plan to DCA by December 1, 1987. Most importantly, DCA's rule 9J-10 has recently become effective. This rule establishes procedures for allocating the $2,310,000 appro- priated by the legislature to assist local governments---i-i preparing their -required plans. According. to DCA, Indian. -River- County is -eligible to receive $31,703 in state funds in 1986 for use in complying with the requirements of the LGCPLDA. No matching funds are required to obtain the money, and there is a possibility that additional funds will be available in 1986 and a probability that addi- tional funds will be available for 1987. In order to receive the funding, the County must submit to DCA prior to April 29, 1986 a scope of services identifying the activities to be undertaken and work products to be prepared with the money. After review by DCA, the scope of services will be incorporated into a contract between the County and DCA. All work performed pursuant to the contract must be completed prior to December 1, 1986. Since establishment of the minimum criteria for local plans, the Planning staff has developed a proposed work program to prepare a plan meeting those requirements. Basically, this work program involves an extensive update of the County's current comprehensive plan, adding more data, addressing additional issues, and preparing several new elements. Because the staff has regularly reviewed the current comprehensive plan in conjunction with plan amendment requests and because the staff has been involved with other planning efforts including the preparation of small area plans, coastal plans, transporta- tion plans, and others, the task of preparing a plan meeting the new state criteria should not be as extensive for Indian River County as for some other local governments. However, preparation of an acceptable plan will still require a substan- tial commitment from the County in terms of staff time and other related costs. The staff has estimated that the cost of preparing a local comprehensive plan meeting the requirements of the LGCPLDA will be approximately $121,000. While most of the activities can be done in-house using existing staff, there may be a need to contract some work to consultants, increase staff, or use part-time employees. 51 APR 2 1986 Boa 64 r 14 51. L