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County in meeting this mandate, DCA, through Rule 9J-16, has allocated $51,902 to Indian River County, an amount which must be used to meet the comprehensive plan requirements and which . must be expended by September 30, 1987. °Comprehensive Plan Work Program As a first step in meeting the County's new comprehensive planning requirements, the staff has developed a preliminary work program, identifying activities to be undertaken to meet the planning mandate. A flow chart depicting in a generalized manner this planning program and the relationships among planning activities has been appended to this agenda item. For each required plan element, a detailed work program has been prepared and is currently being revised by the staff. ODCA Grant Scope of Services Based upon the staff's assessment of work program priorities, a proposed scope of services for activities to be undertaken with the available DCA grant funds has been developed by the staff. Attached to this agenda item, that scope of services identifies the specific activities to be undertaken and the work products to be produced with the available grant. As noted on the scope of services, the staff proposes to use the grant funds to collect the necessary information and data and to compile inventories required for plan preparation. It is the staff's intention to do the proposed work activities in-house, rather than retaining a consultant. To accomplish this, the staff proposes to employ one additional staff planner for the duration of the grant period. In this way, the staff anticipates that all required data and information can be collected, compiled, stored on the computer, tabulated, and mapped. In addition, the staff feels that data analysis and projection activities can also be substantially completed with the available funds. *Special Project In addition to the entitlement funds available to the County through the Department of Community Affairs, _there is an opportunity to obtain additional money for special projects that address special local problems which must be addressed in the comprehensive plan. Although- $400,000 has been reserved for special projects and bonus funds statewide, special project awards are discretionary. Whether a particular project will be funded and the amount of any funding will be determined by DCA pursuant to an evaluation of special project applications. The staff has identified several activities which, if undertak- en, would meet the special project criteria. Of these, the staff feels that the best project for which application could be made would be a detailed analysis of right-of-way preserva- tionalternatives on roadways abutting drainage district canals. Not only is this a issue recently. raised by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the Board of County Commis- sioners, it is also an issue involving several required plan elements, including future land use, traffic circulation, drainage, and intergovernmental coordination. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS Because of the requirements of the 1985 and 1986 planning legislation, the County must do a considerable amount of planning work in the next two and a half years. While the existing plan and recent activities undertaken by the County 85 BODK 6 FAGS��