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approximately 40 acres of land detached from the Town of Orchid during the Spring of 1986. The subject property is located on the south side of County Road 510 and the east side of the Indian River. On September 11, 1986, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 -to -0 to recommend approval of this request. On October 21, 1986, the Board of County Commissioners voted 4 -to -0 to authorize transmittal of. this Comprehensive Plan amendment request to the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for a required 90 day review period. On January 12, 1987, the Planning Department received comments from the DCA relative to these Comprehensive Plan amendment applications. The DCA's comments on this request are as follows: "CPA -075, CPA -076, and CPA -082: These three proposed amendments appear to be useful improvements and additions to the existing comprehensive plan. We commend your efforts to maintain, current, -enhanced information within the plan document." ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The Comprehensive Plan designates the land south and east of the subject property as LD -2, Low -Density Residential 2 (up to 6 units/acre). Because of the small size of the subject property (approximately 40 acres) and the fact that all of the land in the unincorporated part of the County surrounding the subject property is designated as LD -2, Staff feels that the subject property should also be designated as LD -2. RECOMMENDATION Based on the above analysis, including the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendation, staff recommends that the subject property be designated as LD -2, Low -Density Residential 2 (up'to 6 units/acre). The Chairman asked if anyone present wished to be heard. Mrs. Jeannette Lier, owner of acreage detached from the Town of Orchid, wished to know how designating the subject property LD -2 would affect the zoning. At the present time her acreage is zoned Agricultural, and she would like it to remain so. Commissioner Eggert assumed it would remain the same, and Planner Shearer confirmed that the zoning ordinance provides that any property not assigned to a zoning district is assigned to the agricultural district. This property will be considered Agricultural based on that, and if the Liers wish to rezone at any time, they can come in and apply. It was determined that no one further wished to be heard, and the Chairman declared the public hearing closed. 45 BOOK v °j4 FEB 1? 1987