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• zoning districts are allowed in each land use designation. New Policy 1.41 sets general criteria identifying where each zoning district should and should not be located. The type of criteria considered includes, but is not limited to, compatibility with surrounding areas and the availability of transportation facilities. These changes will guide future county rezoning decisions, and will increase overall development compatibility within the county. Florida Statutes set specific criteria to ensure that small scale amendments have smaller impacts than typical plan amendments. Nevertheless, it is necessary to set additional local criteria to determine whether or not a plan amendment request can be processed as a small scale amendment. That will decrease the chances that the small scale amendment process will be used in an arbitrary or unfair manner. The additional criteria also work to prevent the use of the small scale amendment process to circumvent the typical plan amendment process for requests that warrant substantial public and reviewing agency input. In addition to minor processing requirements, the criteria mandate that the small scale amendment process cannot be used for plan amendments that involve important land use issues such as development of environmentally important or environmentally sensitive land, development outside the urban service area, expansion of the urban service area, or expansion of the SR 60/58th Avenue commercial/industrial node. Intergovernmental Coordination Element This change, required by state law, adds information to the plan. The proposed amendment identifies the special districts that operate in the county, and discusses their functions and powers. Additionally, the proposed amendment acknowledges that, consistent with Section 189.415, FS, each special district must submit a public facilities report with annual notice of any changes to the county. These changes make the plan a more useful source of information, and require the county to be more aware of the activities of special districts. Policy 3.9 requires formal coordination between the county and its municipalities, and adjacent counties. The proposed amendment, mandated by state law, requires greater coordination by requiring the identification of two additional areas that can have impacts beyond jurisdictional boundaries. Those areas are Joint Planning Areas (JPA} and Locally Unwanted Land Uses (LULU). JPAs are areas that require coordinated planning. Examples of these areas may include environmentally important land that straddles a jurisdictional boundary, a roadway corridor that runs through more than one jurisdiction, or an area in one jurisdiction that receives services from another jurisdiction. Identifying JPAs allows local governments to maximize existing resources and to avoid future problems. The proposed amendment also requires the identification of LULUS, which are usually public facilities that are needed by the community, but have large impacts on nearby areas. Examples of LULUs include landfills and wastewater treatment plants. By identifying existing and planned LULUs, local governments can work to reduce and mitigate impacts November 10, 1998 49 • BOOK 10.7 PAGE eJ-