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� � r The Board reviewed a Memorandum of October 28, 1997: TO: James E. Chandler County Administrator D TMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE: IY 19" Robert M. Keating,P Community Developme t D' FROM: Sasan Robani, AICP S • Q . Chief, Long -Range Planning DATE: October 28, 1997 SUBJECT: Consideration of EAR (Evaluation and Appraisal Report) based Indian River County Comprehensive Plan Amendments It is reed that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of November 4, 1997. DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS In 1996, the county prepared its Comprehensive Plan Evaluation and Appraisal Report (EAR) and submitted the report to the State of Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA). DCA found the county's evaluation and appraisal report to be sufficient. Since January 1997, planning staff has worked on revising all 15 elements and sub -elements of the comprehensive plan to incorporate the findings and recommendations of the evaluation and appraisal report. These revisions are now complete. To amend the comprehensive plan to incorporate the EAR's findings and recommendations, the normal comprehensive plan amendment procedure must be followed. This procedure calls for a public hearing before the local planning agency (Planning and Zoning Commission), a transmittal public heating before the Board of County Commissioners, and a final adoption hearing before the Board. For the EAR -based comprehensive plan amendments, the public participation process is similar to the public participation process followed in developing the Evaluation and Appraisal Report. As such, the Planning and Zoning Commission has overall responsibility for gathering public input regarding the comprehensive plan and providing direction to staff Many of the elements and sub -elements also have been reviewed by other county committees such as the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, the Utilities Advisory Committee, Marine Advisory Narrows Watershed Action Committee (MANWAC), the Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO) Technical Advisory Committee, and the Economic Development Council. Section 163.3191(4), F.S. states that EAR based amendments must be adopted within one year of EAR adoption. Therefore, the adoption date for the county's EAR based amendments became December 17, 1997. Recently, however, the county received a six month extension for adopting its EAR based amendments. Following is a tentative schedule for the adoption of the Comprehensive Plan EAR based amendments. NOVEMBER 4, 1997 71 BOOK 103 FACE 367 L