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• <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />MEMORANDUM <br />TO: Jason E. Brown <br />County Administrator <br />DEPARTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: <br />Phillip J. Matson, AICP <br />Community Development Director <br />THROUGH: Rebeca Guerra, AICP, LEED-AP, CPD <br />Chief, Environmental Planning <br />& Code Enforcement <br />FROM: Kelly Buck <br />Code Enforcement Officer <br />DATE: 4/26/2022 <br />RE: Request for Release of conservation easements in VeroLago Subdivision <br />It is requested that the Board of County Commissioners formally consider the following information at its <br />regular meeting of May 17th, 2022. <br />DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS <br />The Verolago Homeowners Association Inc. has petitioned the County for partial releases of <br />conservation easements on lots 144 and 145 of Verolago Subdivision Phase 4, and lots 159 and 172 of <br />Verolago Subdivision Phase 3. The HOA is requesting the partial easement releases as a means of abating <br />violations of County land development regulations and the Verolago subdivison declaration of covenants, <br />conditions and restrictions. The violations were created as a result of the placement of fill and lot grading <br />encroachments into the conservation easements that occurred during construction of single-family homes <br />on the subject lots. The encroachments were recently discovered by the HOA while they were performing <br />native upland habitat maintenance and boundary survey activities within the preserves. To offset the <br />partial conservation easement releases, the HOA is proposing to record conservation easements over the <br />existing rear 20' landscape and maintenance easements on Verolago Phase 4 lots 108, 109, 110, and 111. <br />The proposed conservation easements would result in a 654 square -foot increase in conservation <br />easement area within the Verolago Subdivision. <br />ANALYSIS <br />The request has been reviewed by the County Public Works and Environmental Planning Divisions; and <br />the County Surveyor. None of the reviewing agencies expressed an objection to the requested release of <br />easements. Therefore, it is staff's position that the requested easement release would have no adverse <br />impact on the subject properties or to other properties, and that the net result will be an overall increase in <br />conservation easement area within Verolago. <br />RECOMMENDATION <br />Staff recommends that the Board, through adoption of the draft resolution, approve release of the <br />conservation easements described in the draft resolution. <br />42 <br />