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RE: County Initiated Request to Update the Capital Improvements Element of the Comprehensive Plan Plan Amendment Number: CPTA 2000-07-0162 It is requested that the data herein presented be given formal consideration by the Board of County Commissioners at its regular meeting of November 7. 2000. DESCRIPTIONS AND CONDITIONS On February 13, 1990. Indian River County adopted its comprehensive plan. As required by state law, all development activities must be consistent with the comprehensive plan. and all county activities must conform to plan policies. Occasionally, the plan must be updated to reflect the latest and best available information and to address changed conditions. Additionally, the plan must periodically be reviewed and revised in order to reflect the community's changing needs and desires. Also, the plan, itself, requires regular amendment of certain elements. For example, the capital improvements element (CIE) of the plan needs to be amended approximately every two years. This is required both by plan policy and by state regulations. For those reasons, the county has initiated this amendment. At this time, the county is initiating a comprehensive plan text amendment to update the CIE. One component of the CIE is a seven-year capital improvements program. As amended in 1998, that seven-year program currently addresses fiscal years 1998 thru 2004. Since two years of the existing program have been completed and since Florida law requires that a local comprehensive plan contain at least a five-year capital improvements program, the county must revise its program to reflect the appropriate time period. While some of the improvements identified and budgeted in the current capital improvements program have already been accomplished and therefore should be deleted from the program, other improvements need to be re-evaluated in terms of costs, revenues, and prioritization. In addition, new projects may need to be added to the county's capital improvements program. At the time of plan adoption, it was known that the capital improvements program would become outdated each year, therefore, one of the policies of the CIE (policy 1. 1). as adopted, requires annual evaluation and update of the capital improvements program. Also, state regulations mandate that the CIE be amended if conditions change to warrant it. The capital improvements program is an important part of the CIE. Since the program incorporates improvements reflected in other plan elements and incorporates estimates and projections reflected _ in other portions of the CIE, revisions to the seven-year program require an amendment to the CIE as a whole. Planning and Zoning Commission On September 28, 2000, at an advertised public hearing, the Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6 to 0 to recommend that the Board of County Commissioners transmit the proposed text amendment to the State Department of Community Affairs (DCA) for its review. November 7, 2000 94 BK 1 15 PG 801 1