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the Applicant to assess the demographic impacts of habitat destruction and habitat <br />protection and management from a landscape or ecosystem perspective. It also <br />serves to protect the broad range of native species associated with the Atlantic <br />Coastal Ridge scrub ecosystern under the terms of the HCP and provides greater <br />flexibility to the Applicant in dealing With future changed CirGLImstances. <br />1.1. Purpose and Need of the Proposed Action <br />The purpose of the Sebastian HCP is to: <br />.'� u. Provide for greater regulatory certainty mthe Apf)fico/and private � <br />, <br />residential b/ owners wit/in the lWatted residential subdivision of � <br />' S�a��nH��o���e���mbx�nmwi�mo��aod*mnmn� ^ <br />- <br />needs v/this residential 000ununity, ` <br />� <br />This will be achieved by including �8 of the platted /oaidomia| lots <br />` <br />within the Saboudon Highlands subdivision into the Sebastian HCP <br />Plan Area for consideration of changes that are reasonably fnnmaon to <br />—. <br />potentially uf(nc, the functioning HCP. Using the habitat -based <br />approach, the Sebastian HCP uddm000a the xtookaat|o nature of <br />Florida scrub -jay territories in response to changing demoy,opNo and <br />environmental conditions. More specifically, the Sebastian HCP <br />recognizes that authorized encroachment of meWontio| development � <br />V within the 317 Sebastian Highlands |pm presently subject to FVVS <br />'! ~ <br />regulation, as residential build -out occurs, will ||4miy result in the <br />shifting ofFlorida scrub -jay territories into new, o|th^ughpoor quality, <br />hvtimr areas of the Sebastian Highlands subdivision. If those nvmdv <br />� <br />occupied p|vuuod rox|donho\ moos were not considered under this <br />�~~ <br />Sebastian HCP, then they would boindividually subject to section 8 of <br />— the ESA prohibitions. <br />— <br />b. Pmmo/ the broad range of native spmles characteristic of the Atlantic <br />Coastal Ridge scrub ecosystem, <br />� <br />The bonohda| attributes of this rare and vanishing ovoarnuan (Meyers ` <br />� <br />{� 1990) will be protected by implementing nponiiix habitat nsmmdoo � <br />and management actions to return the combined 418± umo Scrub - <br />Jay Habitat Compensation Areas to conditions representative of the <br />L; <br />historical landscape and thereby optimal for oah"o upoc|ou of x <br />conservation concern adapted to this ire- douonUent open landscape. , <br />� - ' <br />For purposes of this HCP' the Florida scrub -joy will function as the <br />