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• This is a county initiated request to rezone ±136 acres located at the southeast corner of US 1 and 41st Street (South Gifford Road). The request involves rezoning the property from RM -8, Multiple - Family Residential District (up to 8 units/acre), RM -6, Multiple -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre), and RS -6, Single -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre) to MED, Medical District. On March 17, 1998, the county adopted comprehensive plan amendments based on its Evaluation and Appraisal Report. Those amendments added ±182 acres to the 37'h Street/US 1 Medical/ Commercial Node by extending the node's northern boundary to 41" Street. On April 14, 1998, the Board of County Commissioners granted a land owner's request to rezone ±46 acres of the node, located at the southwest corner of 41' Street and Indian River Boulevard, to MED. The purpose of this request is to rezone the remaining ±136 acres of the node to MED, making the zoning and land use designation consistent for the entire node. On May 27, 1999, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 5 to 0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners approve the proposed rezoning. State law provides some special requirements for rezoning requests, such as the subject request, that are county initiated and involve more than ten acres. The most relevant of those special requirements are the following: • The Board must hold two advertised public hearings; • One of the public hearings must be after 5:00 p.m. on a weekday, unless four Commissioners vote to conduct that hearing at another time of day; and • The second hearing must be held at least ten days after the first hearing and must be advertised at least five days prior to the second hearing. The .July 13, 19999 Board of Cuutity Commissioners meeting meets the requirements for one of the public hearings. Provided the advertising requirements are met, the second hearing can be held on any weekday after July 23, 1999, at a time determined by the Board of County Commissioners. The rezoning ordinance then can be adopted at the second hearing. The western ±100 acres of the site are zoned RM -6 and consist primarily of citrus groves. The exceptions are several small areas near 39`h Street which are either cleared land or contain native uplands. The ±2 acre Hosie-Schuma m neighborhood park is also located in this area. The western half of the remaining ±36 acres is zoned RS -6 and consists of citrus groves, while the eastern half is zoned RM -8 and contains NHC Place, an adult living facility. East of the subject property, across Indian River Boulevard, land is zoned RM -8 and contains a mix of vacant uplands and estuarine wetlands. Although the county's zoning atlas depicts estuarine wetlands within the county as having various zoning designations, all environmentally important estuarine wetlands are deemed to be zoned Con -2, Estuarine Wetland Conservation District (up to 1 unit/40 acres). July 13, 1999 11 BOOK iOJ FACE is