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600K 107 PAGE53& Community Development Director Bob Keating reviewed the Comprehensive Plan amendment process, advising that this is the first public hearing before the Board of County Commissioners of this land use amendment request. If the Board approves the transmittal of this application to the Department of Community Affairs (DCA) in Tallahassee for their 60 -day review, a second and final public hearing will be scheduled to consider any comments made by the DCA and whether to adopt an ordinance amending the Comprehensive Plan by redesignating the land use. If the Board denies the transmittal of an application to the DCA, the application process will come to an end. He also reviewed a Memorandum of November 2, 1998: TO: James E. Chandler County Administrator D RTMENT HEAD CONCURRENCE Robert M. Keating, AfCP Community Development D r THROUGH: Sasan Robani, AICP S A . Chien Long -Range Planning FROM: John Wachteln/ Senior Planner, ng -Range Planning DATE: November 2,1998 RE: County Initiated Request to Amend the Teat of the Future Land Use and Intergovernmental Coordination Elements of the Comprehensive Plan PLAN AMENDMENT NUMBER: CPTA 98-07-0253 It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting ofNovember 10, 1998. On February 13, 1990, Indian River County adopted its comprehensive plan. As required by state law, all development activities must be consistent with the comprehensive plan, and all county activities must conform to plan policies. Occasionally, the pian must be updated to reflect the latest and best available information and to address changed conditions. Additionally, the plan must periodically be reviewed and revised in order to reflect the community's changing needs and desires. For those reasons, the county has initiated this amendment The recently completed Evaluation and Appraisal process resulted in major revisions to the text of the comprehensive plan. Nevertheless, after reviewing the plan, staff determined that the Future Land Use and the Intergovernmental Coordination Elements need to be revised at this time. The proposed additions and deletions to the plan are shown on Attachment 2. In this attachment, deletions are strnckont, while additions are un_dedined. On October 8, 1998, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 7 to 0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners approve these proposed comprehensive plan text amendments. The_ following proposed changes were not reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission: • the proposed changes to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.12; • the proposed changes to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.14; • the proposed changes to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.28; and • the proposed changes to Future Land Use Element Policy 1.29. November 10, 1998 40