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statement of intent to find the Indian River County Comprehensive <br />Plan not in compliance, stated that "the plan fails to discourage <br />the proliferation of urban sprawl because the densities and <br />intensities of uses assigned in the future land use map to rural <br />and agricultural areas will encourage development in these areas <br />without meaningful controls or regulations designed to discourage <br />the proliferation of urban sprawl". <br />With respect to this request, staff worked with the applicant to <br />develop the proposed mixed use land use designation amendment. <br />This designation is structured to correspond to the DCA's criteria <br />for non -urban sprawl rural development. The concept is that a <br />large mixed use project which provides opportunities for living, <br />shopping, working.and taking care of other daily needs internally <br />will create a self-sufficient community, will capture most of the <br />trips internally, will preserve natural and agricultural areas, and <br />will not cause urban sprawl. Mixed use planned development <br />projects will provide meaningful controls and regulations for <br />development of agricultural areas while discouraging urban sprawl. <br />This mixed use designation would be established upon approval of a <br />mixed use project meeting the specific criteria set out in the <br />proposed mixed use designation amendment. These criteria will <br />ensure that the project will provide the opportunity to live, work, <br />shop, and take care of other daily necessities within the project. <br />Since the mixed use designation is a floating zone and will be <br />approved only upon an applicant's request, the number of mixed use <br />projects and the quantity of people that will be attracted is not <br />known. For these reasons, there is no need to update the county's <br />population projections with establishment of the mixed use <br />designation; instead, projections will be updated to reflect these <br />increases upon approval of each mixed use district. <br />Attachment "A" identifies the proposed changes to the data and <br />analysis section of the Future Land Use Element to address the <br />mixed use designation and provides the proposed new policies <br />establishing the mixed use designation. The proposed amendments to <br />the plan include the following:. <br />Changes to the sprawl section of the data and analysis <br />portion of the Future Land Use Element. <br />- Revision to Policy 1.2 of the Future Land Use Element and <br />creation of a new mixed use designation. <br />- Addition of two new policies to the Future Land Use <br />Element which establish criteria for a mixed use <br />designation. <br />On November 15, 1990, the Planning and Zoning Commission, acting as <br />the Local Planning Agency, conducted a public hearing for the <br />purpose of making a recommendation to the Board of County <br />Commissioners regarding this request. At that meeting the Planning <br />and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of the <br />request as presented by staff with one change. Staff had <br />recommended that at least twenty (20%) percent of the total housing <br />units be affordable housing units; the Planning and Zoning <br />Commission recommended this percentage to be changed to (10$) <br />percent instead. The Planning and Zoning Commission also <br />recommended transmittal of this request to the DCA. <br />DEC1 1 199® 6 3 C�OGK , FAGE <br />