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In 1986, the State Legislature revised the local government Comprehensive Plan amendment procedure. The process now requires the first public hearing by the Board of County Commissioners to be held prior to the transmittal of each request to the State Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for a mandatory ninety -day review period. At that public hearing, the Board has the option of transmitting or not transmitting any or all of the proposed amendments to the State for review. Failure to authorize transmittal of any proposed amendment constitutes denial of that request; however, transmittal of an application does not indicate Board approval of the request. After all the comments from DCA are received, the Board of County Commissioners will schedule a final public hearing to consider the proposed amendments. At the close of the final hearing, the Board may adopt all, part of, or none of the proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. The attached flow chart illustrates the Comprehensive Plan Amendment process as amended by the 1986 state planning legislation. It is necessary for the Board of vote on each of the Comprehensive Plan amendment applications in order to authorize transmittal of the applications to the State for review. Three affirmative votes are required to authorize transmittal. Further, it is necessary for the Board to state their intent to hold a second public hearing concerning those amendment requests authorized for transmittal. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS The Planning Department feels that the best way to authorize the transmittal of the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments to the state for review is through the passage of a resolution authorizing the transmittal. Since a second public hearing must be held prior to action being taken on each of the amendment applications, no final decision can be made on;the applications at this time. However, action is needed on the attached resolution in order to comply with the plan amendment procedure. RECOMMENDATION Based on the above analysis, staff recommends approval of the attached transmittal resolution. ON MOTION by Commissioner Eggert, SECONDED by Comnis- sioner Bowman, the Board unanimously adopted Resolu- tion 87-129 authorizing transmittal of those Comprehen- sive Plan amendments approved today for transmittal. OCT ?'t" 1987 67 840 n ROOK 69 �'.�;F 840