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W AND, 16 1991 RUU� 83 F•4+.IJE 151 TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING - UPLAND POLICY Commissioner Eggert informed the Board that another upland policy is being presented by the TCRPC, and it gets more complex with every new policy. They now have put under 10.1.2.5, "a 25% of each upland habitat which occurs on site ... etc...to be set aside." This would be primarily for DRIB because later on it allows us to function under our policy for other things. Her question is: was it the intent of this Board in setting up the current policy we have in our Comp Plan to exclude larger properties from our 15/10% and allow them to do the 25%, or was it the desire of the Board at that time to include every property under our 15/10% and purchase the rest to make the 25%? Her understanding was that it included every property, but she wished to be sure that was how the Board understood it. Chairman Bird felt that was the way it is; Commissioner Scurlock stated that is how he feels; and Commissioner Wheeler indicated he did, also. Commissioner Bowman did not object but felt, in regard to the purchasing, there was a mistake in the Comp Plan where you are specifying pine flatwoods instead of specifying upland. Director Keating believed we have pine flatwoods specified for 300 acres, but pointed out that we also have 100 acres of xeric community, although he was not sure whether it is specific to sand pine scrub, and we also have 50 acres of either coastal or tropical hammocks. The Land Acquisition Guide sets out exactly what is required, and that guide will be coming to us in the next few weeks. Commissioner Bowman noted that there is a lot of other habitat also, such as salt marsh. Assistant County Attorney Collins referred to Commissioner Eggert Is question as to whether our local rule of 15% also would be applied to DRIs in this county. He felt the Board could keep in mind that one of the reasons we argued so strongly for the 15% rule was because of the impact it had on small projects where, after you took out roadways, storm drainage, lots, et cetera, there wasn't much left to get the 25%. It is not necessarily as dramatic an impact on a development of 1,000 acres where they can set aside isolated areas for preservation and transfer the units out to other less sensitive areas. Commissioner Eggert believed we did discuss developments of 1,000 acres when we were working through this for our Comp Plan. Director Keating added that there are qualifiers. The first is, even where a project can be required toset aside 25% in DRIs. it says that 25 can be reduced to 20 when the set-aside is in large 72 M -