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r � s 10. DRI Binding Letter: Based upon section 916.04, the Board of County Commissioners may require the developer to obtain a binding letter of interpretation or a clearance letter from the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), to provide assurances that the proposal does not constitute a DRI (development of regional impact). The developer obtained a clearance letter from the DCA for the original project. Since this PD rezoning/conceptual plan request proposes no increase in commercial building area, it is staff's opinion that the county should not require the applicant to obtain a new clearance letter or binding letter of interpretation. 11. Landscape Plan & Buffers: As a condition of the original Wal- Mart approval, there is a 25' Type C buffer required along the project site's SR 60 frontage and a 25' Type B buffer with an 8' tall concrete panel wall required along that project's southern property line. These buffer types will be continued along the 6.19 acre site's SR 60 frontage and the southern property line, respectively. The remainder of the site will comply with the requirements of Chapter 926. In staff's opinion, the applicant should extend the 8' tall concrete panel wall along the entire south property line to the site's east property line. The wall would substitute for the hedge material required in the Type "B" buffer. However, the applicant is proposing to extend the 8' high wall 240' eastward, which will cover only a portion of the project's 371.61' of canal (southern property line) frontage. It is staff's position that the wall needs to be extended to the east property line to prevent both noise and light at the back of the store and at the store's loading area from negatively impacting the residential area to the south. ' However, the applicant does not agree with staff's position and is intending to provide a landscape feature in this area. 12. Utilities: The project will be connected to county water and sewer. This meets both concurrency and utilities connection matrix requirements. These utility provisions have been approved by the County's Department of Utility Services and the State Health Department. 13. Environmental Issues: The 6.19 acre subject property consists of mostly a remnant citrus grove, which now includes native plants and some nuisance exotics. Based on an inspection by the environmental planning staff, the site does not qualify as native upland community; therefore, the native upland set- aside requirement does not apply. The environmental planning staff has also verified that there are no wetlands on the subject site; therefore, there are no wetland requirements. There is a native upland conservation easement on a portion of the subject site that was used to mitigate destruction of native uplands on the site of the existing Wal-Mart store. The proposed superstore building expansion will extend into the area of the existing conservation easement; therefore, the applicant will need to have the easement released and will need to mitigate for the loss of the conservation area. This can be achieved either by preservation of upland native plant community area off-site or payment of a fee -in -lieu of preservation. Prior to site plan release, the applicant will need to satisfy the native upland set-aside requirement to the satisfaction of environmental planning staff. 14. Dedications & Improvements: The applicant will be making several off-site improvements. One improvement will involve 45 OCTOBER 1, 1996 BOOK 99 ��