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l'" <br />DEC 13 98 <br />BOOK 75 PA,E 5 <br />Chairman Scurlock understood that the developer of Indian <br />Trails just recently submitted a plan to the Town Council of <br />Indian River Shores for improvements, landscaping and other <br />items. <br />Administrator Collins explained that under Ordinance 88-26 <br />there is a provision that guidelines for the maintenance of the <br />scenic and historical roads be developed by the Parks and <br />Community Development Division. The Definition Section of that <br />scenic road ordinance defines a protected area as being a 30 -ft. <br />area parallel to and abutting the right-of-way line. He felt the <br />Historical Society's primary concern is that a lot of the <br />development along Jungle Trail is intruding into that 30 -ft. <br />protected area. The ordinance also provides for a prohibi 'ion on <br />clear cutting vegetation, but it allows some selective cutting of <br />species that aren't protected. However, parallel with that, it <br />requires planting strips of native vegetation to replace the <br />exotics that are cleared away. The Historical Society is also <br />concerned that some of the clear cutting that has been going on <br />has not been accompanied by that replanting of native vegetation <br />in order for Jungle Trail to maintain its scenic characteristics. <br />Chairman Scurlock asked if this is a Code Enforcement <br />problem, but Administrator Collins felt the difficulty is that <br />the guidelines really have not been developed,. He recommended <br />that we allow a couple of weeks for public input from the <br />Historical Society and any other interested groups on setting the <br />criteria for these guidelines on the maintenance of Jungle Trail. <br />Then have staff work on that input, and come back with a set of <br />criteria which might be applied to.any selective cutting which <br />would require as a condition of the clear cutting or selective <br />cutting, the replanting of native vegetation. to addition, it <br />would have to revegetate the 30 -ft. protected buffer, rather than <br />just replanting a 4 -ft. strip or whatever is normally required by <br />our landscaping ordinance. <br />10 <br />