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INDIAN RIVER COUNTY Per Policy 1.38, the following standards will apply to new towns and be reviewed through the County's Planned Development (PD) process: PD zoning required; 2. Residential uses shall include single-family and multiple -family units, including residential uses over businesses; 3. Commercial areas required, with retail and personal services as permitted uses; 4. Employment areas required, with office, educational, light industrial, resource management and tourism, and agricultural and related entities as permitted uses; 5. Public facilities (schools, fire stations, police stations, cultural and community facilities, and places of worship) shall be included; 6. Recreational uses shall be included; 7. Natural open spaces and agricultural areas shall be included; 8. Activity or town centers shall be included with residential and non-residential uses (mixed), and other residential uses shall be in compact neighborhoods; 9. Gross density shall not exceed 1.5 units per acre, but can be increased to 2.0 units per acre through transfer of development rights; 10. The mix of uses shall be as follows: .m.. (a) Commercial, personal services, and office areas shall be provided at a ratio of three (3) to ten (10) acres per 1,000 residential units; (b) Public facilities shall not exceed five (5) percent of the entire PD area; (c) Residential uses shall constitute between fifteen (15) and thirty-five (35) percent of the entire PD area; (d) Employment areas shall comprise at least two (2) percent of the entire PD area. 11. The following standards will apply: (a) Ten (10) percent of the units are required to be affordable and/or workforce housing units; (b) At least fifty (50) percent of the entire PD area shall be preserved or provided as open space, with at least seventy (70) percent of the minimum required open space being located along the main project boundaries to function as a greenbelt; (c) Active residential uses shall be limited to a maximum of twenty-four (24) percent of the designated open space and twelve (12) percent of the entire PD area, whichever is less; 12. The policies regulate timing of land uses, with no more than twenty-five (25) percent of the proposed residential development permitted until at least twenty five (25) of the proposed commercial and personal service uses and office and light industrial uses are established; 13. Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND) standards are required. The exception policies for all three counties are similar, but the focus of each is different, likely due to the reason the policies were incorporated into each of the jurisdictions' comprehensive plans. Indian River .w. County's policies were intended to allow for sustainable, self-sufficient new towns. These policies have requirements for the timing of commercial development to ensure that the communities can support Appendix C: Peer Jurisdictions Report C-20