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DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: <br />County environmental planning staff have received a wetland <br />resource permit application from Archer of Vero Beach, Inc., to <br />enhance a 1/2 acre isolated wetland in Woodbridge Estates <br />Subdivision (located south of 8th Street, east of 43rd Avenue). <br />When Woodbridge Estates was platted in 1989, a condition of county <br />approval was the recording of a conservation easement over a <br />preserved wetland. The conservation easement prohibits dredging or <br />filling of the wetland, unless the owner receives permission from <br />appropriate governmental agencies. <br />This matter is being presented to the Board for authorization of a <br />partial release of the recorded conservation easement, to allow the <br />wetland enhancement project to occur. <br />ALTERNATIVES & ANALYSIS: <br />The enhancement entails the removal of cattails and exotic species <br />and deepening the marginal wetland to create a shallow pond with <br />littoral zone plantings. <br />The proposed wetland enhancement project has already been approved <br />by the St. Johns River Water Management District. The project <br />qualifies for a nationwide permit under Army Corps of Engineers <br />guidelines. County environmental planning staff have reviewed the <br />proposal in accordance with county wetland resource protection <br />regulations, and find that the project would enhance existing <br />environmental conditions. <br />RECOMMENDATION: <br />Staff recommends that the Board approve the attached Resolution <br />authorizing a partial release of the Woodbridge Estates <br />conservation easement recorded in Official Record book 856, page <br />0614, to allow the proposed wetland enhancement project. <br />MOTION WAS MADE by Commissioner Scurlock, SECONDED <br />by Commissioner Bird, that the Board approve staff's <br />recommendation and adopt Resolution 92-162, <br />releasing certain prohibitions of a conservation <br />easement made by Woodbridge Development Company to <br />Indian River County. <br />Under discussion, Vice Chairman Bowman commented that it is a <br />nice plan and she would like to know the designer's name. She just <br />had one bone to pick here and that is the cypress mulch. She <br />cautioned that if we don't stop chopping up cypress just to use for <br />mulch, we are not going to have any cypress left. There are other <br />mulches that will do the job just as well, and she asked that staff <br />carry that message back to the people who are going to do the <br />project. <br />17 <br />600K 87 PAGE 488 <br />SEP - `992 <br />F <br />