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The second two criteria allow the county to approve a request to amend the land use map only if a mistake or oversight was made during plan preparation, adoption, or amendment. In this case, the subject property's land use designation was changed by the plan amendment adopted to implement the county/DCA compliance agreement. In negotiating this compliance agreement, county and DCA staff reviewed aerial photographs, identified active agricultural areas, and located undeveloped lands to determine areas for density reductions. The subject property was carefully considered, as were all areas in the vicinity. Despite careful consideration during the county/DCA compliance negotiation process, staff feels that a mistake or oversight did occur. It is staff's position that the oversight or mistake involved a failure to consider the effect of delineating a major roadway as the urban service area boundary, when that boundary serves as a major utility corridor. While county staff acknowledges that the subject property was carefully considered in relation to urban sprawl, agricultural preservation, and residential allocation issues during the compliance negotiation process, it is staff's position that 58th Avenue's function as a major utility corridor and its effect on the subject property was not considered at that time. Subsequent to approval of the county/DCA stipulated settlement agreement, the county recognized that major water and sewer lines were programmed for installation on 58th Avenue. As a result, properties on both sides of and within 1/4 mile of 58th Avenue will have all of the public infrastructure necessary for including the property in the urban service area. In fact, staff feels that it would be inefficient to have major utility lines within a road right-of-way and not allow those lines to serve adjacent properties. It is staff's opinion that an oversight occurred during compliance negotiations, because both DCA and county staff failed to consider that programmed water and sewer service for 58th Avenue would justify including the subject property within the Urban Service Area and assigning the property an urban land use designation. This utility corridor issue not only affects the subject property; it also affects all similarly situated lands. For that reason, staff feels that the Urban Service Area boundary must be examined on a large scale. Specifically, all corridors where major water and sewer lines are programmed must be examined and adjacent properties considered. In order to provide for this review, staff proposes that the Board of County Commissioners adopt new Future Land Use policy 1.37. This policy provides for a county sponsored corridor study and urban service area boundary analysis. As proposed, policy 1.37 reads as follows: Future Land Use Policy 1.37. By 1993s, Indian River County shall conduct a corridor study for each roadway which serves as an urban service area boundary. A corridor includes road right-of-way and property within one-quarter (1/4) mile of - both sides of the right-of-way. The Rings Highway (58th Avenue) Corridor is hereby designated as a high priority corridor study area. For each corridor studied, the analysis shall identify programmed infrastructure improvements, particularly water and sewer lines. Where water and sewer lines are planned for installation within the right-of-way of a roadway serving as the -urban service area boundary, the study will examine the financial, environmental and physical impacts of providing urban services to land on both sides of the right-of-way. Based upon the study results, the existing urban service area designation and land use plan designation for lands within the corridor will be assessed, and necessary changes will be identified. Any identified changes shall address the need to reduce the size of the Urban Service Area (USA) boundary depicted on the Future Land Use Map in order to 75 MAY 0 5199