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M M Attached to this agenda item are drafts of 33 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, interested individuals, and the Planning and Zoning Commission. On August 23, 1990, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7 to 0 to recommend to the Board of County Commissioners that the land development regulations be approved. 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 regulations 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 recommends that the Board of.County Commissioners approve these land development regulations. Director Keating noted that staff would like approval to go ahead and clean up any minor non -substantive things, such as typos, etc., and with those corrected, would recommend the LDRs be approved. Commissioner Scurlock brought up the matter of how we should proceed today. He believed the Commissioners have been approached by different individuals, and it seems that since this procedure has been so time consuming and there has been so much effort put -into it with many language changes, it has been suggested that the Commission form an advisory committee to take d, an overlook at the entire thing over a longer time period. Chairman Eggert noted that she had that on the agenda to be addressed after we went through all the chapters, and she SEP11 X990 13