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0 Nearly all of the 476 lots are located near an urban area, in one of the three following areas: • near the City of Fellsmere (201 parcels); • along 66" Avenue between 33'd Street and 85'h Street (142 parcels); and • between 43'd Avenue and 82"d Avenue, south of 16" Street (133 parcels). Of the 275 parcels not in the Fellsmere area, 112 are concentrated within a mile of an urban service area boundary, near 66* or 58h Avenues, between 45`h Street and ? Street, S.W. The concentration is particularly high between 58`h and 70 Avenues, south of 16`h Street. That area contains 84 lots, 51 of which contain a residential building. The remaining 33 lots are classified as either vacant residential or citrus groves. Besides these properties, there are hundreds of acres of agriculturally designated five to ten acre lots in the county. South of the City of Fellsmere, for example, land known as the "Kahn" property consists of 888 acres of five and ten acre parcels, and most of the ten acre parcels are being split into five acre tracts. That would create 177 five acre parcels on the Kahn properly alone. When those lots are combined with the 183 available lots mentioned above, the result is that 360 agriculturally designated lots of five acres or less are currently available for residential development, even if no lot splits occur on land other than the Kahn properly. Through the comprehensive planning process, the county has the opportunity to prepare for long term growth and development, even beyond the 2020 planning horizon of the current plan. This is important with respect to the development of agricultural lands adjacent to the urban service area because those lands are the logical location of potential future urban service area expansion. Current projections, depicted in the chart below, indicate that the county's population will grow from its present 110,000 persons to 154,000 persons by the year 2020. source: inns rionaa zimmucai Aosum Those projections were made in the early and middle 1990s, when the county growth rate was relatively low. The projections reflect a projected annual compounded growth rate of 1.63% for the 2000 to 2020 time period. That rate suggests that the county will grow at a much lower rate than in the previous 20 years. Because growth rates have been increasing in the late 1990s, it is likely that future projections will also show. increased growth rates. OCTOBER 149 1999 -17PAGE - •