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JUN 18 199' �oo� Fr E 6,_0o With respect to this request, staff worked with the applicant to develop the proposed mixed use land use designation amendment. This designation is structured to correspond to the DCA's criteria for non -urban sprawl rural development. The concept is that a large mixed use project which provides opportunities for living, shopping, working, and taking care of other daily needs internally will create a self-sufficient community, will capture most of the trips internally, will preserve natural and agricultural areas, and will not cause urban sprawl. These mixed use planned development projects will provide meaningful controls and regulations for development of agricultural areas while discouraging urban sprawl. This mixed use designation would be established upon approval of a mixed use project meeting the specific criteria set out in the proposed mixea. use designation amendment. These criteria will ensure that project residents will have the opportunity to live, work, shop, and take care of other daily necessities within the -project. Since the mixed use designation is a floating zone and will be approved only upon an applicant's request, the number of mixed use projects that will be established and the number of people that will be attracted are not known. With establishment of minimum separation distances between such districts, however, the number of potential projects/districts can be limited, and the potential population increase can be controlled. Attachment "A" identifies the proposed changes to the data and analysis section of the Future Land Use Element to address the mixed use designation and provides the proposed new policies establishing the mixed use designation. The proposed amendments to the plan include the following: Changes to the sprawl section of the data and analysis portion of the.Future Land Use Element. Revision to Policy 1.2 of the Future Land Use Element and creation of a new mixed use designation. - Addition of two new policies to the Future Land Use Element which establish criteria for a mixed use designation. On November 15, 1990, the Planning and Zoning Commission, acting as the Local Planning Agency, conducted a public hearing for the purpose of making a recommendation to the Board of County Commissioners regarding this request. At that meeting the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend approval of the request as presented by staff with one change. Staff had recommended that at least twenty (20%) percent of the total housing units be affordable housing units; the Planning and Zoning Commission recommended this percentage be changed to (10%) percent instead. The Planning and Zoning Commission also recommended- transmittal'of this request to the DCA. On December 11, 1990, the Board of County Commissioners voted 5-0 to transmit the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendment, with changes as recommended by the Planning and Zoning Commission, to the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for the DCA's ninety (90) day review. On April 19, 1991, the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) issued its Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report. The DCA's ORC report included a number of substantive objections to this proposed amendment. While many of these objections focussed on insufficient location criteria and project development standards,•others referenced a lack of justification to establish the -need for such a land use designation. 70 - M