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PDs shall not exceed the density allowed by the underlying land use designation. In addition to providing developers with more design flexibility, the PD process also gives the Board of County Commissioners more discretion, compared to regular subdivision projects, with respect to project approvals. There are two key requirements that are applicable to Agricultural PDs, but not applicable to non - Agricultural PDs. The first is that lots cannot exceed one acre in size, while the second is that lots must be clustered on a relatively small portion of the overall project property. The remainder of the site, regardless of its ownership, must remain in open space (either as natural; agricultural; or to a limited degree, recreational, areas) for as long as the property retains an agricultural land use designation. Over the past few years, several proposed Agricultural PDs have been considered by the Board of County Commissioners at public hearings. In reviewing those proposals, both the public and the Board questioned whether Agricultural PDs and clustering should be required and whether there were benefits associated with clustering. As a result of that questioning, the following public meetings on this issue were conducted: • two Board of County Commissioners workshops; • two Agricultural Advisory Committee workshops; and • one Professional Services Advisory Committee meeting. At the April 4, 2000, Board of County Commissioners meeting, the Board instructed staff to initiate a plan amendment to eliminate the requirement that any residential development of agriculturally designated land must be approved as an Agricultural PD. The revisions related to Agricultural PDs involve changes to the Land Use Analysis section of the Future Land Use Element, and to Future Land Use Element Policies 1.10 and 5.8. In addition to eliminating the Agricultural PD requirement, those revisions make Agricultural PDs and clustering an optional (rather than required) development type for agriculturally designated land. While the revisions eliminate the requirement that residential development of agriculturally, designated areas be done only through the Agricultural PD process with clustering required, the amendment also makes some changes to the soon to be optional Agricultural PD requirements. Those changes include the following: • The open space area must be under the ownership of a single entity and maintained as open space, in perpetuity, through a conservation and/or agricultural preservation easement. 1 • The clustered lots must be grouped together in a compact, contiguous manner. • Golf courses are not permitted as part of Agricultural PDs. Caribbean Fruit Fly Host Plants As part of the Evaluation and Appraisal Process, the county added a policy restricting Caribbean Fruit Fly "host' plants in certain types of new development on agriculturally designated land. The existence of Caribbean Fruit Fly host plants near active citrus groves can adversely affect protocol approval of grove fruit. For that reason, the county adopted a policy that requires the following special conditions for Administrative Permit, Special Exception and/or Planned Development approval of projects on agriculturally designated land: November 7, 2000 102 iL: & 1 15 P 8 0 1