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TO: James Chandler County Administrator DIVISION BEAD CONCURRENCE: i Robert Keating AICP Community Developjhent Director FROM: Sasan Rohani .54L. Chief, Long-Range Planning DATE: August 27, 1990 SUBJECT: Adoption of Indian River County, Land Development Regulations It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of September 11, 1990. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: On February 13, 1990, the Indian River County Board of County Commissioners adopted the Indian River County Comprehensive Plan. The adoption of the comprehensive plan was required by the Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act, Chapter 163, Part II, Florida Statutes. Besides mandating adoption of a plan, the act also requires that within one year of 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, 19891 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. 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. Prior to initiating the workshop process, a questionnaire was prepared and mailed to the members of the public whose names were included on the planning division's workshop participation list. Besides notification of those on the workshop list, an article published in the Press Journal explained the workshop process, provided a workshop schedule, and encouraged public participation. As a result of those efforts, various individuals and groups attended the weekly workshop meetings and made comments on draft chapters. In many cases, changes to initial drafts were made based upon those comments. In order to secure the Planning and Zoning Commission's comments and provide an opportunity for the public who could not participate in the daytime meetings, the Community Development Department held several workshop sessions at the regular and special meetings of the Planning and Zoning Commission. Also, the Community Development Department held a workshop meeting before the Board of County Commissioners. 12