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RECOMMENDATION Based on the analysis, staff and the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend that the Board of County Commissioners transmit this request to DCA and request DCA and all reviewing agencies to conduct a full review of the amendment. Director Keating explained this amendment regarding the Oslo Riverfront property which consists of tropical hammocks, freshwater wetlands, scrubby flatwoods and impounded estuarine wetlands. The amendment will change the land use to a conservation designation, representing publicly -owned conservation property, which would be in compliance with the management plan for this property. This would be the same designation as St. Johns Marsh in the western part of the county. Commissioner Bird inquired whether the County could get mitigation credit and create a land bank for taking this amount of land and removing residential zoning in order to preserve it. Director Keating advised that staff has been working toward this end. The Board recently approved a resolution to the Department of Transportation requesting that the DOT consider properties on the County's environmentally sensitive lands acquisition list for mitigation. He also stated that staff will be bringing a LAAC recommendation to the Board regarding the Wabasso Scrub property within the next several weeks. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will then receive a request to consider the scrub on that property as mitigation for the CR -512 project. Commissioner Bird felt that governmental agencies should be giving the County mitigation credit as this is 65 acres of upland that we are taking out of the system. There should also be some credit given for the 650 residential units being taken -out of the system as we may need some flexibility in the residential section in the future. He also believed that credit should be given for the wetland being created out of old pastureland at the Landfill. Director Keating advised that staff keeps spread sheets with running totals on how much density has increased or decreased since the Comp Plan was approved. Commissioner Tippin felt the agencies involved should be told at every opportunity what this County has done and continues to do with regard to environmentally sensitive issues such as saving millions of scrub jays. He believed that bonuses should be given - to the County for the reduction by 600 to 700 units for human beings. Chairman Macht commented that each of these purchases is also removed from the tax rolls and added to the burden of the taxpayers. JUNE 139 1995 44 ®��s �� PAGE •J