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The procedures for reviewing a comprehensive plan amendment involve three basic steps. First, the <br />Planning and Zoning Commission (PZC), as the Local Planning Agency, conducts a public hearing <br />to review the request (step 1). At the public hearing, the Commission makes a recommendation to <br />the Board of County Commissioners (Board) to approve, approve with modifications, or deny the <br />requested amendment. <br />Following PZC action, the Board conducts two public hearings. The first of those hearings is for a <br />preliminary decision on the amendment request (step 2). At that hearing, the Board determines <br />whether or not the amendment warrants transmittal to state and regional review agencies for their <br />consideration. <br />If the amendment is transmitted, state and regional agencies review the amendment as it pertains to <br />each agency's area of focus. Review agencies then send their comments directly to the county and <br />the State Land Planning Agency. Subsequent to staff and/or the applicant addressing any issues <br />raised in the review agency comments, a second and final Board public hearing is conducted (step <br />3). If the Board approves the request at the final hearing (adoption hearing), then the approved <br />amendment is submitted to the State Land Planning Agency and to the other review agencies. The <br />amendment becomes effective 31 days after the State Land Planning Agency determines that the <br />approved amendment submittal is complete, unless a challenge is filed by an affected party. <br />PZC Action <br />At its regular meeting of April 25, 2019, the Planning & Zoning Commission (PZC) conducted a <br />public hearing, considered the subject amendment, and voted 6-0 to recommend that the Board of <br />County Commissioners approve the proposed amendment (Attachment 3). <br />Board Transmittal Public Hearing <br />The subject "transmittal" public hearing is the second step in the Comprehensive Plan amendment <br />process. At this time, the Board of County Commissioners must decide whether or not to transmit <br />the proposed amendments to the Capital Improvements Element and the Transportation Element to <br />state and regional review agencies. If the Board votes to transmit this amendment, it will be <br />scheduled for a final Board hearing (adoption hearing) in September or October. <br />Proposed Amendment <br />Changes proposed to the Capital Improvements Element (CIE) primarily involve amending text and <br />amending policies to adjust LOS (level of service) capacity on an interim basis for two roadways <br />(37th Street and County Road 510), and amending concurrency management text related to <br />individual single family home permits. Current comprehensive plan language exempts from <br />concurrency review only single family building permits in subdivisions platted before February 13, <br />1990, and requires a separate concurrency review for each single-family permit application <br />proposing development on lots created after February 13, 1990. Under the proposed amendment, <br />development on individual single family lots in all subdivisions and on individual legally created <br />single-family parcels will be exempt from concurrency review on a permit by permit basis, with <br />each permit deemed a de minimus impact. Also, under the proposed amendment, traffic impacts <br />432 <br />