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b00K Ili Ff4GE 17 Comprehensive Plan ATTACHMENT A Future Land Use Element e. The following additional standards shall be met by any new town project application. At least thirteen (13) percent of the total housing units shall be affordable housing units. A housing unit shall be considered affordable if it has a market value less than two (2) times 80% of the county's annual household medium income, or it has a monthly rent less than one -twelfth (1/12) times 30% of 80% of the county's annual household medium income. The applicant shall provide sufficient data and analysis to justify the number and percentage of affordable housing units needed by his proposed project. This amount of affordable housing shall then be provided within the project; however, the total amount of affordable housing shall in no case be less than thirteen (13) percent of the total number of housing units in the project. 2. At least fifty (50) percent of the entire PD area shall be preserved as open space. Open space areas shall be retained as natural areas, used for agricultural purposes or used for recreational purposes. 3. Recreational uses shall be limited to less than twenty-five (25) percent of the designated open space, but shall not exceed twelve (12) percent of the entire PD area. 4. To ensure that all phases of the project develop as a viable new town development with a mixture of residential, shopping, working, recreational, and open space areas, various uses for each phase of the project shall be approved and developed in a proportional manner. Commercial and personal service uses, office and light industrial uses and residential uses shall generally constitute the same percentage of area for each phase as they constitute in the project as a whole. No more than twenty-five (25) percent of the proposed residential use development will be permitted until at least twenty-five (25) percent of the proposed commercial and personal service uses and office and light industrial uses occur. 5. Each new town project shall be buffered from adjacent land uses. At a minimum the following buffer requirement shall be met: A setback of at least eighty (80) feet with a type "B" buffer and a six foot opaque feature as set forth in Chapter 926, Landscaping and Buffering of the County Land Development Regulations, shall be provided along all project boundaries. ii. No commercial, personal services, office, or light industrial development shall be permitted closer than two hundred (200) feet from any arterial or collector roadway. The project shall meet the Traditional Neighborhood Design standards of Future Land IIs . Element Policy 18. 1, for Street Networks, Centers, and Public Buildings subsections. Policy 6.1: Indian River County shall not provide public services or facilities which would induce or encourage the development of agriculturally designated lands except in the following instances: • To provide for the health and safety of existing residents; • Lots or portions of lots which front on a public roadway that serves as an urban service boundary, as long as the provision of utility service is consistent with Potable Water CLb- Element Policy 5.7 and Sanitary Sewer Cub- lenient Policy 5.8; - OCTOBER 26, 1999 -62-