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BOOK. PAGED <br />Figure 1: Location and Zoning of the Subject Property <br />Town of Orchid CR 510 <br />------- -- -- — -- -- ---- -- — <br />a <br />C <br />O <br />A-1 <br />A-1 <br />m <br />Michael <br />Creek RM -6 <br />Indian River - Earring Point Dr.} <br />Lagoon - Rs'' RM -6 <br />t <br />N Subject Property <br />At the January 27, 2000, Planning and Zoning Commission meeting, the Planning and Zoning <br />Commission voted 6 to 0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners rezone the subject <br />property to RS -6. Despite the Planning and Zoning Commission's recommendation for approval, <br />the Board of County Commissioners, at its March 21, 2000, meeting, voted 3 to 2 to deny the request <br />to rezone the subject property. The Board stated that the possibility of developing three units on <br />what it considers to be a small, environmentally sensitive site along the Indian River Lagoon was <br />the reason for denial. At the April 4, 2000, Board of County Commissioners meeting, the Board <br />considered new information regarding the rezoning. The new information was that the owner of the <br />subject property proposed to record a deed restriction on the site which would limit development of <br />the site to one single-family unit, and would `run with the land." Based on that information, the <br />Board voted 4 to 1 to reconsider this request. Since that time, the property owner has executed the <br />referenced deed restriction. <br />The subject property is zoned RS -1 in the county's zoning atlas and consists of primarily of vacant <br />uplands that were cleared in the late 1980's. The site also contains a narrow band of estuarine <br />wetlands near the shore of the Indian River Lagoon. <br />The site is bounded on the north (across Earring Point Drive), east, and west by estuarine wetlands; <br />and on the south by the Indian River Lagoon. Adjacent land to the west of the site is zoned Con -1, <br />Publicly Owned or Controlled Conservation District (zero density), and is under the same ownership <br />as the subject property. Public control of land abutting the subject property on the west is ensured <br />through a conservation easement to the county. <br />May 2, 2000 <br />54 <br />