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BOOK 103 PACE 58 <br />Community Development Director Robert Keating reviewed the Comp Plan <br />amendment process, advising that this is the first public hearing before the Board of County <br />Commissioners on this land use amendment request. If the Board approves the transmittal <br />of this application to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in Tallahassee for their <br />60 -day review, a second and final public hearing will be scheduled to consider any <br />comments made by the DCA and whether to adopt an ordinance amending the Comp Plan <br />by redesignating the land use. If the Board denies the transmittal of an application to the <br />DCA, the application process will come to an end. <br />Director Keating continued that the Planning & Zoning Commission unanimously <br />recommended denial of this request. This property consists of 18.8 acres at the southeast <br />comer of Oslo and 66°i Avenue and is now zoned AG -1. All of this property is outside of <br />the urban service area and all the property surrounding it is groves. There has been no <br />oversight and this development would be considered "leap frog" development. The <br />applicant does have some alternatives in that he (1) could develop a residential PD project <br />or (2) consolidate with other properties which would allow properties outside of the urban <br />service area to develop as a new town. The lessening of the value of the property due to <br />circumstances in the citrus industry does not warrant a change to the land use plan. <br />The Chairman opened the public hearing and asked if anyone wished to be heard in <br />this matter. <br />Terry Torres 1550 Club Drive, Vero Beach, read from the following Memorandum <br />of October 28, 1997: <br />M E <br />To: <br />From: <br />Subject <br />Date: <br />M O R A N D U M <br />The Honorable Members of the Indian River County Board of County <br />Commissioners <br />Terry T. Torres <br />Bessemer Trust Co., Request to Amend the Comprehensive Plan to Redesignate <br />18.8 Acres from AG- I to M- I <br />October 28, 1997 <br />Please consider the data contained herein as a response and rebuttal to the report and <br />recommendations made by the Indian River County Planning Department on October 27, 1997. <br />NOVEMBER 4, 1997 <br />62 <br />