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initiatives have been acted upon by the Board, including an LDR change for building heights in the I-95/SR60 industrial area adjacent to the CVS distribution center, reduction in commercial/industrial impact fees, expansion of Go -Line bus system hours, and an economic positioning initiative conducted in coordination with the Chamber of Commerce. One initiative staff pursued that had not been formally considered by the Board until recently involves an evaluation of commercial zoning and mixed use allowances along SR60 in the area of 66`h Avenue and the adjacent Indian River State College (IRSC) campus. In pursuit of that initiative staff evaluated zoning and mixed use opportunities in the subject area (see attachment #4) and coordinated with IRSC staff and the owner of land at the adjacent SR60/66' Avenue intersection, together with his engineer, regarding land use, shared infrastructure, and future property development. There is now agreement in concept for a potential mixed use project on re -configured private property that provides for shared infrastructure that will serve and help integrate a re -configured IRSC campus and adjacent commercial and residential uses. Those coordination activities and a special mixed use concept were reported to the Board at its October 18, 2016 meeting under Commissioner Zorc's matter, and then formally considered by the Board at its November 15, 2016 meeting. Based on the evaluation of commercial zoning and mixed use opportunities, staff's conclusion is that a mixed use PD (Planned Development) process is the best approach for integrating a potentially re- configured and growing IRSC campus and developing adjacent property for commercial and multi- family development in a preferred mixed use development form. Any such PD project would provide a special mix of uses and accommodate proper expansion of a unique community asset and resource (IRSC). It is also staff's conclusion that such a project would be located in a "preferred location" (the area adjacent to a Commercial Industrial Node, the IRSC campus, and SR 60/66`h Avenue intersection), and would warrant special mixed use criteria. In order to allow an appropriately large mixed use development plan for the subject area and to ensure provision of shared infrastructure, the County's existing mixed use policy needs to be amended. Following that approach, on November 15, 2016 staff presented to the Board draft proposed changes to the mixed use policy (FLUE Policy 5.6) that provide for a large, special mixed use project that appropriately integrates commercial and residential uses with the adjacent IRSC campus and guarantees appropriate shared infrastructure improvements. At that meeting, the Board agreed with staff's analysis and approach, provided input on the initial draft amendment, and directed staff to initiate a comprehensive plan text amendment for future land use policy 5.6. Based on the Board's input, and subsequent input from the Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC), staff has made a few changes to the initial wording of the proposed policy amendment and has initiated the formal amendment process. At its January 26, 2017 meeting, the PZC conducted a public hearing and voted unanimously to recommend approval of the proposed amendment. During the hearing, the PZC discussed initially proposed wording which somewhat loosely described a "preferred location area" and the possibility of more strictly limiting the amendment to the SR 60/66' Avenue and IRSC campus area, given the special characteristics of that area. Based on the PZC discussion, staff reconsidered the "preferred location" wording and made a few additional, post-PZC meeting changes to the proposed amendment. As a result, the current (revised) version of the proposed policy limits the "preferred location" area to the area adjacent to the SR 60/58" Avenue C/I node, the IRSC campus, and the SR 60/66`h Avenue intersection. Based on that revision, the proposed policy applies to only one area of the county; the area generally depicted in attachment 8. 3 P167