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property. The elements include the future land use, sanitary sewer, potable water sub -element, solid waste sub -element, natural groundwater aquifer recharge sub -element, stormwater management sub - element, transportation, economic development, capital improvements, housing, conservation, coastal management, recreation, open space, intergovernmental coordination, public schools, and the property rights elements. It should be noted that comments identified for each respective Goal, Objective, and Policy may reflect multiple categories. This report provides recommended text language in strikethrough/underline format based on the findings of the EAR. Future Land Use Element The Future Land Use Element guides the development of Indian River County and shapes how the County will grow in the next planning period. The purpose of the Future Land Use Element is to designate future land use patterns with corresponding densities and intensities in areas that will best accommodate the projected population change. The Future Land Use Element is the foundation of the County's Comprehensive Plan as it ties together all or portions of the other Elements and establishes the planning framework for moving forward. A summary of the changes that are proposed for the Future Land Use Element are as follows. 0 Remove unnecessary policies, e.g., Policy 1.1 adopts the Map Series, which is typically adopted by right regardless of the presence of a policy. 0 Establish appropriate cross-references to other elements like Conservation, Coastal Management, Public School Facilities, and more 0 Update statutory references, especially related to Developments of Regional Importance (DRIs) 0 Move standards out of the Plan and into the Land Development Regulations (LDRs) 0 Relocate/revise Urban Service Area policies (1.49-1.50) under Objective 1 to Objective 2, whose primary topic is the Urban Service Area 0 Addition of cross-references or recommend revision of Policies more applicable to other Elements of the Comprehensive Plan 0 Remove references to unnecessary historical statistics, e.g., Objective 6 sets a County goal to maintain at least 125,000 agricultural acres in the unincorporated County and noted immediately after how much agricultural acreage there was in 2007. 0 Add additional uses to the RC, Regional Commercial future land use category per direction from the BCC at its regular meeting held on September 10, 2024 (Item 12.H.1). 0 Identify the county's only Area of Critical State Concern, which was signed into law via HB 1489 and became effective July 1, 2023 (FS 380.0553). These recommended changes are important to improve the Element and better guide development in the County and protect the community's existing character. Many Policies were identified as consistent with the County's vision and feedback received from the community, and therefore no changes were recommended to such Policies. Those policies recommended for change are provided in legislative format, with additions underlined and deletions shown in strike dffeugh, as follows: C:\Users\ufc-prod\AppData\Local\Temp\BCL Technologies\easyPDF 8\@BCL@6414E534\@BCL@6414E534.docx 4 10