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On the west side of Jungle Trail is "tract E", which the applicant is proposing to develop as a recreation complex. Due to the location of this parcel, its lack of access, size, and significant area of developable uplands, Jungle Trail access to the tract is logical. While many of the residents will get to the recreation facilities via a pedestrian cross -walk, a curb cut on the Jungle Trail will be necessary to provide vehicular access to this parcel. Buffering along this side of the Trail will also need to meet or exceed the Management Plan standards. 17. Tract E: The concept plan presently depicts a clubhouse, croquet courts, parking lot, and boat docks lined along the parcel's Indian River Lagoon frontage. Recreation uses which require intense land clearing and development, (i.e. croquet courts, tennis courts, etc.) and can be accommodated away from the river on other portions of the project should not be allowed. Passive and riverine recreation such as boating, fishing, boardwalks through the undeveloped portion of Tract E, a separate fishing pier, and bird nesting boxes or nesting platforms would all be uses most appropriate for Tract E when its environmental constraints and potential development impacts on Jungle Trail are considered. Any conceptual plan approval should include a condition to limit the development of recreation facilities directly related to the river environment. While the riverine uses such as boating, and docks are permitted in the Jungle Trail buffer, staff's opinion is that the applicant should re -design the docks that are within the Jungle Trail buffer, clustering the docks away from the Trail rather than spreading them along the Jungle Trail frontage. The applicant has proposed a parking lot on tract E to accommodate vehicular traffic to the recreational facilities. The applicant has agreed to make some spaces available to the public, as well as public access to the water. Controlled public access and parking spaces are encouraged in the Jungle Trail Management Plan. Provision for access and spaces would be required as part of any conceptual plan approval. The applicant must provide an environmental survey of Tract E to verify the location of any environmentally sensitive lands. Tract E appears to contain low areas subject to periodic inundation. Tract E also appears to contain middens scattered along the shoreline. The applicant will need to provide written verification from the State Department of Archives as to the location of any archeological sites on Tract E. Any sites located will need to be depicted on the preliminary PRD plan for Tract E, and the design of Tract E must be done in such way as to preserve all archeological sites. 18. Shoreline Stabilization: The applicant has assumed all obligations of the previous developers (Florida Land & Coralstone) to fund or provide stabilization of the shoreline along Jungle Trail. In summary, this conceptual PRD contains several issues such as traffic, utilities, Jungle Trail protection, environmental, and archeological concerns which will need to be addressed as con- ditions of this conceptual PRD. JUL 2 � 1989 25 `7