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Changes to those four policies were recommended by the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) after the Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. For that reason, those four changes were not reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission. Because those changes are relatively minor, they are included in this group of proposed amendments despite not having been reviewed by the Planning and Zoning Commission. The Board of County Commissioners is now to decide whether or not to transmit these amendments to DCA for its review. DESCRIPTION OF THE AMENDMENTS BY ELEMENT In this section, the proposed amendments to each plan element will be discussed. The purpose is to identify the various portions of the plan needing amendment and to present justification for the amendment requests. Future Land Use Element Generally, the proposed amendments to the Future Land Use Element clarify policies, address new comprehensive plan requirements, or better address existing comprehensive plan requirements. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.6 defines where the conservation land use designations are located and what uses are permitted within those land use designations. The proposed amendment helps clarify which lands are designated C-1, Publicly Owned or Controlled In the past, there had been a question regarding the land use designation of publicly owned spoil islands in the Indian River Lagoon. The proposed amendment answers that question by specifically designating those islands as C-1. Future Land Use Element Policies 1.12 and 1.14 list the permitted uses on land with the low- and medium -density residential land use designations, respectively. The reason for modifying these policies is to ensure that the plan maintains internal consistency with Future Land Use Element Policies 1.31 and 1.37 which contain provisions for professional office uses within the low- and medium -density land use designations. The proposed amendment modifies Future Land Use Element Policies 1.12 and 1.14 to list professional offices (consistent with Policies 1.31 and 1.37) as permitted uses in the low- and medium -density residential land use designations. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.16 states which uses are permitted within the C/I, Commercial/Industrial, land use designation. The proposed amendment adds land use intensity standards for the commercial industrial land use designation to this policy. State law requires that all local government comprehensive plans contain such standards. In fact, the Florida Department of Community Affairs (DCA) has raised Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report objections to several recent land use designation amendments based on the county's lack of such standards. In response, the county has committed to amend its plan to include such standards. The proposed amendment also adds data and analysis indicating how those standards were derived. Future Land Use Element Policy 1.22 limits the expansion of commercial/industrial nodes to instances where the subject node is 70% developed, or otherwise warranted by the proposed November 10, 1998 • 41 BooK 1077 FGE a--