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BOOK 99 PAGE 613 <br />• Board of County Commissioners EAR Comments <br />At its August 27, 1996 meeting, the Board of County Commissioners raised some EAR related <br />issues. The <br />principal concern was related to staffs recommendation to eliminate the R, Rural (up <br />to 1 unit per acre), designation from the future land use map. The Board's position was that there <br />is a need for 1 or 2 acre lots for people who want to live in a low density setting. <br />To address the Board of County Commissioners' concerns regarding the availability of large lot <br />subdivisions, staff has reviewed the county's land use designations, zoning designations, and <br />existing land development regulations. Staff feels that existing regulations allow for the creation of <br />large lot subdivisions. One such method involves creating %i acre or 1 acre lots through the <br />Agriculture Planned Development (AGPD) process. Currently, staff is examining ways to make the <br />AGPD process easier so that an applicant can better use that mechanism. For those reasons, staff <br />feels that the rural land use designation can be eliminated from the future land use map, while still <br />addressing the Board's concerns. <br />�9[ 1 uh�l ►11 _ � . <br />Staff recommends that the Board of County Commissioners review information provided, collect <br />public input, and provide direction to staff. <br />Director Keating presented the following slidefilm graphics, <br />noting that we will be addressing the Future Land Use -Element last. <br />We evaluated all the objectives and policies and we have prepared <br />an overview of what we feel needs to be done. The best thing to do <br />in this review is to look at each objective cluster in each of <br />these elements. <br />INTRODUCTORY ELEMENT <br />EAR PROCESS <br />INDIAN RIVER COUNTY <br />COMPREHENSIVE PLAN ADOPTED <br />FEBRUARY 13, 1990 <br />PREPARATION AND REVIEW OF AN <br />EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT (EAR) <br />FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN <br />1995/96 <br />EAR TO BE SUBMITTED TO STATE NY <br />JANUARY 1, 1997 <br />I EAR BASED COMPRESENSIVE PLAN mmIDimn I <br />TO BE PROCESSED IN 1997 <br />4 <br />NOVEMBER 5, 1996 <br />