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A site plan or temporary use permit must be approved by the planning department; Any improvements made to the leased site must be done and paid for by the lessee with the improvements reverting to the county when the lease expires. Comprehensive plan amendment requests are reviewed for consistency with all policies of the comprehensive plan. As per section 800.07(1) of the county code, the "comprehensive plan may be amended only in such a way as to preserve the internal consistency of the plan pursuant to section 163.3177(2).F.S." The goals, objectives and policies are the most important parts of the comprehensive plan. Policies are statements in the plan that identify the actions which the county will take in order to direct the community's development. As courses of action committed to by the county, policies provide the basis for all county land development decisions. While all comprehensive plan policies are important, some have more applicability than others in reviewing plan amendment requests. Of particular applicability for this amendment request. is the following policy: Future Land Use Policy 14.3 The most important policy to consider in evaluating a plan amendment request for consistency with the county's comprehensive plan is Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. This policy requires that one of four criteria be met in order to approve a land use amendment request. These criteria are: • a mistake in the approved plan; • an oversight in the approved plan; • a substantial change in circumstances affecting the subject property; or • a swap or a reconfiguration of land uses at separate sites. The following table shows how this comprehensive plan amendment relates to Future Land Use Element Policy 14.3. Objective/Policy Correct a mistake Correct an oversight Change in circumstances Swap of land uses Coastal Management Policy 5.1 X Economic Development Policies X X Future Land Use Policy 6.1 X Future Land Use Policy 14.3 X Recreation and Open Space Policy 7.3 X Coastal Management Element Based upon its analysis, staff feels that the proposed change to policy 5.1 of the Coastal Management Element meets the first criterion of policy 14.3 of the Future Land Use Element. As revised, policy 5.1 contains the correct FAC citation. Economic Development Element Based upon its analysis, staff feels that the proposed changes to the Economic Development Element meet two of the criteria of Future Land Use Element policy 14.3. Many of the Economic Development Element's policies that are being deleted are policies that duplicate actions of other policies. Other policies that are being deleted are policies which did not have a defined action. That constitutes a mistake in the comprehensive plan. Therefore, the proposed changes meet the first criterion of Policy 14.3. There has also been a change of circumstances that supports the proposed revisions to the Economic Development Element. That change relates to the Economic Development Division's experience in marketing the county's economic development potential. Because of that experience, the Economic Development Division has identified more efficient and cost effective marketing activities. The Economic Development Element policies will enable the Economic Development Division to use more effective marketing activities. MAY 189 1999 —33— BOOK PAGc_..