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FF - �0OK F'M IJ 5b TO: James Chandler County Administrator FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICPANK Community Development Director DATE: February 11, 1992 SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATIVE REZONINGS It is requested that the information presented herein be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of February 18, 1992. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: The Local Government Comprehensive Planning and Land Development Regulation Act of 1985 not only requires that each local government in the state prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan; it also mandates that within one year of submission of its plan each jurisdiction must "adopt or amend and enforce land development regulations that are consistent with and implement their adopted comprehensive plan". By adopting its land development regulations on September 11, 1990, Indian River County achieved substantial compliance with the Act's implementation requirement. One aspect of making the land development regulations consistent, however, was not undertaken at that time. That involves the administrative rezoning of property to make the zoning designation of each parcel in the County consistent with its land use plan designation. The reason that the rezoning issue was not addressed when the land development regulations were prepared relates to the status of the County's comprehensive plan. Although the plan was adopted in February, 1990, the plan was not found in compliance by the state until August, 1991. During the period between adoption and compliance, the staff realized that substantial changes in. the adopted plan would probably be required to achieve compliance. In fact, major land use changes were made as part of the compliance process. With the knowledge that plan amendments to achieve compliance would result in major changes, the staff opted not to initiate the administrative rezoning process until the plan had been found in compliance. Now that the plan is in compliance, the County must undertake the administrative rezoning process. Once the comprehensive plan was found in compliance, the staff undertook an analysis to determine the magnitude of the administrative rezoning process. This analysis involved a comparison of the adopted future land use map with the County's official zoning atlas. In so doing, the staff compared the zoning designation to the land use designation for every parcel in the County. Through this process, the staff not only determined the number of parcels and amount of acreage to be affected by the administrative rezonings, but the staff also identified each affected parcel by tax parcel identification number as well as by current and proposed zoning designations. 26 u _I