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TO: James Chandler County Administrator FROM: Robert M. Keating, AICP AMM Community Development Director DATE: December 1, 1993 SUBJECT: COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENTS It is requested that the information herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at their regular meeting of December 7, 1993. DESCRIPTION & CONDITIONS: Following this item are four comprehensive plan amendment reests. These requests were submitted during the month of July, con istent with the County's twice a year window for amendment submittal. The proposed amendments are now being presented to the Board for transmittal consideration. As in the past, the Board must determine whether or not to transmit the amendment requestw to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for their review. Amendments not approved for transmittal are deemed to be denied. Since June of 1993 when the Board last considered plan amendments for transmittal to DCA, the applicable statute regulating the amendment of local comprehensive plans has changed. These Changes were approved by the legislature in its 1993 session as part of the ELMS (Environmental Land Management Study) bill. With respect to the transmittal of proposed plan amendments o DCA, the principal change has been to provide local governments with the opportunity to have minor amendments or amendments with few impacts considered in a shorter time period. As provided by the ELMS changes, a local government, as part of its transmittal, may direct DCA not to initiate a full review of a proposed plan amendment. This can speed up the process for some amendment requests, but lengthen the process for other proposed amendments. Attached to this report is a set of flow charts. These illustrate the old procedure for the review of plan amendments as well as the new review options. Under the old amendment review procedure, DCA had ninety ays to review a plan amendment request (this included obtainin other agencies' review comments) and send its ORC -(Obje tions, recommendations, comments) report back to the County.) The legislature reduced this ninety day review time to sixty days. This is illustrated in the attached "review requested" flow chart. The sixty day timeframe applies if the County opts to have DCA review proposed amendments in generally the same manner as has been done in the past. If, however, the County feels that a proposed amendment has insignificant impacts and is generally non -controversial, the County may direct DCA not to review the proposed amendment. In 23 9001 91 PAGE 12 DEC - 7 1993 � J