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r AUG 0 9 1990 the required comprehensive plan submittal date land development regulations consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan be adopted or amended. Since the county's required submittal date was September 1, 1989, the land development regulations are required to be adopted by September 1, 1990. In rewriting the land. development regulations, the Community Development Department has coordinated with the County Attorney's Office. The result of this coordination is a proposed reformat of the county's entire Code of Laws and Ordinances to a unified Code Book (proposed outline of the new county code is enclosed). The Attorney's office is responsible for titles I through VII, and the Community Development Department is responsible for title VIII (comprehensive plan), and title IX (Land Development Regulations). Since January, the Community Development Department has held workshop meetings every Thursday, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, to solicit public input on the rewrite of the land development regulations. A questionnaire was prepared and mailed to the members of the public whose names were included in the workshop participation list. An article published in the Press Journal explained the workshop process, schedule, and encouraged public participation (a copy of questionnaire and workshop schedule is enclosed). Attached to this agenda item are drafts of 32 of the 34 chapters which constitute the set of land development -regulations for the County. These draft chapters have been reviewed in workshops and have been revised to reflect workshop comments as well as comments received from other county departments and interested individuals. The two chapters not included are still in initial draft stages, but these will be completed and workshopped prior to the final adoption hearing, for the land development regulations, scheduled for September 11, 1990. ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS In preparing these land development regulations, the staff used existing codes and ordinances as much as possible. While some ordinances such as the sign code have been substantially revised within the last several years and only required reformatting and minor changes, other chapters such as concurrency management, wellfield protection, upland habitat protection and several others are completely new. For this 'reason the draft land development regulations are a combination of existing regulations and new initiatives. - Besides complying with the state mandate to enact revised land development regulations, the staff had several other objectives for the project. These were to make the new land development regulations consistent with the adopted comprehensive plan, make the new land development regulations easy to use and understand, and correct problems in the existing code. Toward this end, the staff critically assessed existing codes, identified comprehensive plan mandated regulations, researched regulatory alternatives, and obtained public input. The result is the draft set of land development regulations attached to this item. The staff will address each chapter in more detail at the workshop meeting. This will include a brief statement of changes, new initiatives, and controversial issues relating to each chapter. RECOMMENDATION The staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners review the draft material and consider the drafts at the workshop meeting. I