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M M Community Development Director Robert Keating recalled that the last time this request was before the Board, staff recommended denial, but the Board decided to transmit it to the Dept. of Community Affairs in Tallahassee for their 90 -day review. The DCA ORC report contained several substantive objections which focused primarily on the premature development of agriculturally designated lands and the proliferation of urban sprawl. Staff addressed each of these issues specifically and made revisions to the staff report to essentially rebut what the DCA said in certain cases. Staff also explained in more detail the concept of roadways serving as utility corridors and the economics and efficiency of serving land on both sides of a roadway. In our negotiations with the DCA, they accepted that reason, but they recommended that the County adopt a new policy that would require the County to do corridor plans along each of the roadways for similar characteristics so that we would essentially be treating all similarly situated properties in the same manner. After many phone calls and fax transmissions, our planning staff and DCA did come up with the proposed wording for a new policy. Policy 1.37 requires that the County look at lands on each side of each one of the right-of-ways that serve as a corridor and determine if the urban service area needs to be expanded or if it needs to be contracted in those particular areas. Policy 1.37 also requires the Board, after receiving the results of those studies, to go in and make Comp Plan changes to accommodate them. Staff feels that with the adoption of proposed Policy 1.37 and with the revisions made to the staff report, we have satisfied all of DCA's objections. In response to Chairman Eggert's question on population data, Director Keating advised that as of the 1990 census, the resident population was 90,208 and the resident in -season population was 105,000 to 107,000. Director Keating concluded with staff's recommendation for approval of this land use amendment request to expand the urban service area by 40 acres, to change the land use designation of the subject property from AG -1 to R, and to rezone the subject property from RFD to RS -1. In addition, staff recommends that the Board adopts proposed Future Land Use Policy 1.37. Chairman Eggert asked if staff had made the DCA aware that we are experiencing rural sprawl going east and that we are consistently balancing off with the changes to agricultural that we have been getting. _ Director Keating responded that we have not told them specifically that we have been having a lot more rezonings into that, but he anticipated that they would say that it is appropriate 79 MAY 0 519IR 9or1