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'JUL 0 8 19:9 boa U�loll in the state prepare and adopt a comprehensive plan; it also mandates that within one year of submission of its plan each jurisdication 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 aspect 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 these rezonings. This analysis involved a comparison of the adopted future land use map with the county's official zoning atlas. In undertaking this effort, 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 also identified each affected parcel by tax parcel identification number as well as by current and proposed zoning designations. Based upon the analysis, staff has determined that approximately 1,924 parcels will need to be administratively rezoned. While that represents only about two percent of all parcels in the county, the acreage amount is more substantial. Staff estimates that approximately 210,364 of the county's 318,000 acres will be affected by the administrative rezonings. Most of the acreage and slightly more than half of the parcels involved are situated west of I-95. This is because the county's adopted land use plan assigns. almost all land west of I-95 to designations with densities of either 1 unit/10 acres, 1 unit/20 acres, or no density (conservation areas owned by the St. Johns River Water Management District), whereas the lowest density residential zoning district presently applied to these areas is 1 unit/five acres. While the parcels proposed to be rezoned are located throughout the county, most of these parcels are concentrated in five general areas. These areas are: ° St. John's.Marsh ° Agriculturally Designated Areas ° Areas adjacent to the New Urban Service Area (USA) Boundary ° Areas adjacent to Commercial/Industrial Node Boundaries ° The North Barrier Island Area 4