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It is requested that the data herein presented be given -formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of November 12, 1991. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS Indian River County adopted its comprehensive plan on February 13, 1990. Since that time, the County has initiated only one plan amendment, that being the remedial actions amendment which was required by the stipulated settlement agreement (compliance agreement) with the state. Besides the one county initiated _amendment, several other amendments have been submitted _by individuals and processed by the county. Although the county has not submitted any non-compliance related plan amendments, the plan implementation process has shown that of the more than 700 policies of the plan, there are several which need clarification and/or adjustment. Also, the plan, itself, requires annual amendment of certain elements. For example, the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) of the plan needs annual amendment as required both by Plan policy and state regulations. For those reasons the county has initiated this amendment. At this time,, the County is initiating a comprehensive plan amendment which involves several elements of the plan. The affected elements are: the Future Land Use element, the Sanitary Sewer and Potable Water sub -elements, and the Capital Improvements Element. On September 26, 1991, the Planning and Zoning Commission sitting as the Local Planning Agency voted 6-0 to recommend transmittal of the proposed county initiated Comprehensive Plan Amendment to the DCA. DESCRIPTION OF THE AMENDMENTS BY ELEMENT In this section, the proposed amendments to each plan element will be discussed. The purpose is to identify the various portions of the plan needing amendment and to present the justification -for the amendment requests. The proposed amendments and additions to the plan are shown on Attachment "A". Future Land Use Element At this time, the County is proposing plan amendments to four (4) existing policies of the Future Land Use Element. These are policies 1.23, 1.19, 2.4, and 4.3. The County is also proposing the addition of two new policies to the Future Land Use Element. These are policies 1.35 and 1.36. .Policy 1.23 Policy 1.23 of the Future Land Use Element provides criteria for node expansion. This policy states that no node should be considered for expansion unless 70% of the land area (less rights- of-way) is developed or approved for development, or otherwise warranted by the proposed development This policy is applicable to all nodes designated on the Future Land Use Map. Since there are more than 5,000 acres of land within all the nodes throughout the county, policy 1.23 will be applicable to 5,000 plus acres of land. The purpose of this policy is: 11 NOV 121,99-1 J BOOK t /� � � F.A-. �