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• • The procedures for reviewing comprehensive plan amendments involve several steps. First, the Planning and Zoning Commission, as the Local Planning Agency, conducts a public hearing to review the request. The Commission has the option to recommend approval or denial of the Comprehensive Plan amendment request to the Board of County Commissioners. Also, the Planning and Zoning Commission may recommend approval of or deny any associated rezoning request. If the rezoning request is denied, only the land use amendment request is forwarded to the Board, unless the denial to rezone is appealed. Following Planning and Zoning Commission action, theBoard of County Commissioners conducts two public hearings. The first of those hearings is for a preliminary decision on the land use amendment request. At that hearing, the Board determines whether or not the land use amendment warrants transmittal to DCA for fiuther consideration. A Board of County Commissioners decision not to transmit the land use amendment to DCA constitutes denial of both the land use amendment and rezoning requests. If the land use amendment is transmitted, DCA conducts a review which includes soliciting comments from the Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council, several state agencies, and neighboring local governments. After its review, DCA compiles its objections, if it has any, in an Objections, Recommendations, and Comments (ORC) Report, and transmits that report to the county. After staff addresses any issues that were raised in the ORC Report, the second and final Board of County Commissioners public hearing is conducted. The Board takes final action to approve or deny the land use amendment and rezoning requests at that time. If the Board approves the requests, the effective date of the adoption ordinances is when the land use amendment is found "in compliance" by DCA. The Board of County Commissioners is now to decide whether or not to adopt the proposed land use designation and zoning for both subject properties. Subject Property 1. Subject Property 1 and properties to the east and south are zoned RS -3 and are part of a 40 acre citrus grove. Land along Subject Property 1's west boundary is zoned RM -6, Multiple -Family Residential District (up to 6 units/acre), and consists of undeveloped upland habitat and possibly some jurisdictional wetlands. North of Subject Property 1, land is zoned MED and consists of medical office buildings and Indian River Memorial Hospital. Subject Property 2 Subject Property 2 and land to the north and west are zoned MED and part of the Indian River Memorial Hospital Campus. Subject Property 2 consists of stormwater management tracts for that campus. Adjacent land to the east is also zoned MED. That land consists of a medical office building and undeveloped wetlands. Land to the south of Subject Property 2 is zoned RS -3 to the east and RM -3 to the west. The RS -3 area contains subdivisions of single-family homes and a golf course. The RM -3 area contains the Baptist Retirement Center assisted living facility. APRIL 49 2000 -59- BOOR