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At a ® COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AMENDMENT PROCEDURES INTRODUCTION: 40 The Indian River County comprehensive Plan requires that County initiated plan amendments and individual citizens' plan amendment requests be considered once a year, in January. The following sets of procedures for this process have been prepared by the Planning Department. These procedures outline the steps which are to be taken in the amendment process, including a timetable for completing all of the required plan amendment activities. �i TYPES OF AMENDMENTS: In amending the Comprehensive Plan there are several categories of types of amendments delineated by the Florida Statutes. Each of these types of amendments requires a different amendment procedure. The amendment categories are: 1)- Amendments of any element other than.the•future land use element of,,the Com rehensive Plan. 2) Amendments of the future land use element which comprise less than 5% of the County's total land area. 3) Amendments of the future land use element which comprise more than 5% of the County's total land area. The fact that there are these different types of amendments with different intents makes it necessary for the Planning Department to develop different sets of administrative procedures in order to initiate or process the various amendment requests. The first type of amendment is legally required by the State of Florida to take place at least every five years, after the date of Comprehensive Plan adoption. Florida Statutes 163.3191 "Evaluation and appraisal of Comprehensive Plan" lists those criteria which shall be used to evaluate existing plan elements. According to the Florida Statutes, "The report shall represent an assessment and evaluation of the success or failure of the Comprehensive Plan or element or portion thereof." Included in the analysis should be: 1) The major problems associated with development including physical deterioration, land use changes and economic and social impacts. 2) The condition of each element in the Comprehensive Plan at both the date of plan adoption and the date of plan revision. 3) A comparison of the plan's stated objectives and the plan's results at the date of revision. 4) The extent to which unanticipated or unforeseen problems have affected the planning jurisdiction between the time of plan adoption and plan revision. The second type of plan amendment, a specific amendment, involves changes affecting less than 5% of the County's land area. This amendment process will usually be initiated by individual landowners wishing to change the land use designation of their individual parcels. However, the County may also opt to change the land use designation of various land -1-